It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie that week podcast devoted to a classic film

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with...

Tosh Robinson.

And Scott Tobias.

Genevieve is not with us yet again, but we are joined by our friend, music critic, Stephen Hayden.

Hello, Steve.

Hello.

So in last week's show, we talked about Woodstock, Michael Wadley's sweeping look at the Woodstock Music Festival.

This week we're leaving upstate New York for uptown New York City and the Harlem Cultural Festival,

a six-week concert series held in the summer of 1969, whose list of performers practically doubles as a roll call for the top R&B, soul, jazz,

of gospel talent working in the late 60s. Captured on videotape by director Hal Tolchin,

the footage failed to attract a buyer, but has been rescued from obscurity by Amir

Questlove Thompson for the new documentary Summer's Soul, or when the revolution could not be televised.

Beyond rescuing priceless performance footage, the film features interviews with artists and concert

growers that put the festival in the context of what was happening in music and politics

and the culture at large at a pivotal moment. We'll talk it over after the break.

No We'll talk it over after the break. Nobody ever heard of the Harlem Culture Festival.

Nobody would believe that happened.

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