Editing Wattstax (section)

==Film production==
The 1973 documentary release of ''Wattstax'' includes, in addition to the festival sets by Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, the Staples Singers, the Bar-Kays, and many others, musical performances by artists who were unable to perform during the actual Wattstax concert. [[The Emotions]] perform the gospel song "[[Peace Be Still (James Cleveland album)|Peace Be Still]]" from the pulpit of the Friendly Will Baptist Church in Watts in a sequence shot several weeks after the Wattstax concert.<ref name="Emotions">{{cite video|people=Bowman, Rob (Historian) |date=January 10, 2006 |title=''Wattstax'': Audio commentary with Rob Bowman and Chuck D. |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427327/ |medium=DVD |publisher=Warner Home Video |location=Burbank, CA |access-date=April 18, 2020 |time=0:25:05-0:26:30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Glick |first=Joshua |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y949DwAAQBAJ&q=wattstax+emotions+church |title=Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 |date=2018-01-23 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-29370-0 |pages=171 |language=en}}</ref> [[Johnnie Taylor]] performs his 1971 hit single "[[Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone]]" onstage at the Summit Club in Los Angeles in a sequence filmed September 23, 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/02/prweb506847.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311005251/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/02/prweb506847.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |title=Stax Reissues Johnnie Taylor's 'Live at the Summit Club' Album, Recorded in South L.A., at the Time of Wattstax |website=PRWeb |access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> [[Little Milton]] performs "Walking the Streets and Crying" in a lip-synced performance staged near train tracks adjacent to the [[Watts Towers]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lawrence |first=Novotny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klqQBQAAQBAJ&q=little%2520milton%2520wattstax%2520walking%2520the%2520streets&pg=PA143 |title=Documenting the Black Experience: Essays on African American History, Culture and Identity in Nonfiction Films |date=2014-10-24 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7267-3 |pages=143 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Rev. Jesse Jackson]], head of [[Operation PUSH]], was the [[Master of ceremonies|MC]] of the Wattstax concert.<ref name="RobGordonRespectYourselfWattstax" /> [[Richard Pryor]] appears as the host of the film via interstitial stand-up scenes filmed at a bar following the Wattstax concert.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://post45.org/2014/08/what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wattstax-richard-pryor-and-the-secret-history-of-the-black-aesthetic/ |title="What You See Is What You Get": Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic |last=Saul |first=Scott |date=2014-08-12 |journal=Post45: Peer Reviewed |language=en-US |access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> Interspersed between the musical performances is documentary footage of the residents of Watts going about their daily lives, local businesses, as well as interview segments with Black Los Angelians. Rather than being fully candid, these segments feature actors discussing predetermined topics.<ref name="RobGordonRespectYourselfWattstax">{{Cite book |last=Gordon |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=berlBQAAQBAJ&q=unknown%2520actors |title=Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion |date=2015-02-03 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-60819-416-2 |pages=303 |language=en}}</ref> Among these actors is [[Ted Lange]], later one of the stars of the TV series ''[[The Love Boat]].''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.today.com/popculture/remembering-black-woodstock-wbna5888344 |title=Remembering the 'black Woodstock' |website=TODAY.com |date=September 2004 |language=en |access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>