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What Warrington Hudlin ended up making with Street Corner Stories was both a glinting inversion of the campus documentary and a patient, precise film about work.

Street Corner Stories

Warrington Hudlin, 1977

Yale Film Study Center

ARRINGTON HUDLIN MADE HIS FIRST.

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