The brilliant folks at the Facebook Real Blues Forum kindly corrected me about the above being the only filmed footage of Leadbelly. Here's a newsreel from 1935:
"My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song." -Junior Kimbrough
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great footage; thanks for posting. definitely not the only film ever taken of him, though-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxykqBmUCwk
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