Script treatment for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1971
name: label: Written by
content: Melvin Van Peebles, American, 1932 - 2021
notes: label: Description
content: The original, typewritten script treatment for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, written by Melvin Van Peebles. The script is typewritten in black ink on the reverse of white Columbia Pictures stationary paper and bound across the top with three staples. The pages are hand-numbered at top center and there are handwritten notes, edits, and corrections throughout in both graphite and black ink. The reverse of the pages have the Columbia Pictures letterhead with Hollywood address and telephone number at the top and "A Division of Columbia Pictures, Inc." across the bottom. There is no coversheet or title on the first page, the script begins with a description of the film's first scene, "Women lined up like a sort of feminine wild bunch, standing in a semi circle around a kitchen table." There is a handwritten editor's mark at the beginning of the sentence indicating a new paragraph.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Blaxploitation films
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Independent films
label: Topic
content: Photography
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.82.7
objectType: label: Type
content: treatments (documents)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Melvin Van Peebles
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11 1/16 x 8 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (28.1 x 21.9 x 3.2 cm)