Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Wendell Anderson
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.”