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Two African American men wait in a retro 1970s airport terminal. The standing man wears a dark navy pinstripe three-piece suit with wide lapels, a broad leather belt with a brass buckle and a wide-collared cream shirt, and he stands tall with both hands resting on a black lacquered cane with a silver handle, looking down the concourse. Beside him, the seated man wears a brown and rust plaid suit, a brown felt fedora tilted low and polished reddish-brown platform boots, leaning back on a red and yellow molded metal bench with one leg crossed over the other and a hard-shell tan suitcase at his feet. Behind them, a mustard-yellow wall holds framed advertising posters, including one for “Virginia Slims” in elegant script, and a mechanical split-flap departures board with rows of black and white flight times. Through tall tinted windows on the right, a jumbo jet sits on the tarmac in hazy afternoon light. Blurred passengers in flared trousers and trench coats stream past in the background, one pulling a wheeled luggage cart. The floor is a worn geometric-patterned carpet in orange and brown, scattered with crumpled ticket stubs and a discarded newspaper. Wide-angle lens at low height, looking slightly up at the standing man, with both men sharp and the concourse falling soft. Warm ambient light from overhead fluorescent panels mixes with amber daylight from the windows, leaving soft shadows under the bench. Photorealistic mid-1970s film still with warm faded color, gentle halation on the window highlights and visible 35mm film grain.