The Two Known Pieces of Footage - Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2021
- This is both pieces of known footage of the Legendary Louisiana blues guitar player Leadbelly.
The first piece is a 1935 March of Time newsreel, produce by March of Time newsreel company. It is a reenactment of when Leadbelly was discovered by John Lomax in Angola State Penitentiary, though state officials denied the legend of Leadbelly's singing getting him out of present, and showing that prison records showed he was due after serving the minimum sentence and for good behavior. Lomax and Leadbelly play themselves in this.
The second piece is a 1945 film created by Chinese-American designer and sculptor Wah Ming Chang. Chang began a join venture with Branding Sloan and the East-West Film Company and filmed Ledbetter for a film called "Pick a Bale of Cotton" in 1944. Though Ledbetter filmed 6 songs, only 3 have survived, and is now known as "Three Songs by Leadbelly" after edited by Pete Seeger.
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Love all of this I’m 74 and grew up listening to lead-belly woody Guthrie sonny Terry thanks 🙏 for sharing
So happy for these recordings. They did this man dirty and you can see it in his song writing. One of the OG MVP’s of modern music. Fuggin Legend! RIP Lead Belly.
I’m just happy that we have live footage of this legend.
Seeing him gives me goosebumps but also left with this sad feeling.
Leadbelly was a legend and the true founder of rock and roll as we know it. However, I feel he was done dirty. He deserved more respect
Such deep sadness 😢
Glad we have those
"Two known pieces of footage"
Shows multiple pieces of footage lol
I'm not mad hahaha
A genius the original og rapper
It's disturbing how people treated their fellow man.
Fake
Which one do you think is fake?