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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Berry School, Rome, Georgia Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Berry Schools, Rome, Ga., April 27th, 1927. Large plantation style house - close-up of front of house, Negro maid leaving house, returning, leaving with another woman - people in front of large building, ‘Memorial Library’ carved across front - view of library from a distance - line of boys and girls forming path leading from old vine-covered building - man leading horse-drawn buggy with woman seated in it between lines of children, line of people, one person on crutches, following buggy - close-up of elderly woman in buggy - close-up of man and horse - costumed boys holding banner, ‘The Original Cabin,’ in front of small cabin - woman entering cabin - children walking along banks of river - children entering log cabin - children and woman sitting in front of cabin - costumed boys playing trumpets - boys holding banner, ‘The Sunday Lady’ - children outside cabin - woman in buggy loaded with furniture, stopping - boys unloading furniture, carrying small pump organ into log cabin - boys holding banner, ‘Wash Day Comes Around’ - boys carrying large tubs, filling them with water, woman washing clothes - boy leading mule-drawn wagon with costumed boys and girls in it, spinning wheel in wagon - mule-drawn wagon with girls in it - boys costumed as bakers in wagon - wagon decorated as laundry - boys in wagon - men leading cattle - several decorated wagons - line of tractors - tractor-drawn threshing machine - mule-drawn covered wagon - frame schoolhouse in woods - boys herding cattle out of large barn - girl at loom. [1927]
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