sentences: ".The production team decided against going to the Library of Congress to obtain materials and license them due to the costs, so instead Dunye and Zoe Leonard created new footage meant to resemble video from the 1930s and had an author of plays, Ira Jeffries, take additional photographs in the same style.On March 3, 1996, Jeannine DeLombard reviewed "The Watermelon Woman" for "Philadelphia City Paper", describing the sex scene between Cheryl and Diana as "the hottest dyke sex scene ever recorded on celluloid".