SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS Reel 1 · Part 2

Description

Outtakes: From film on life in Kentucky and Tennessee. R.1: Scenes of mountains, houses, poverty and women work at handicrafts, including making dulcimers. Men process sugar cane. Miners at work. R.2: Lumbering; construction of buildings; family on porch. Women at Red Cross work. Medical missionaries at clinic. Farm family works. Girl in family shows her diploma. R.3: Men process lumber; girls' cooking class. Square dance. Outdoor religious pageant. Family works in vegetable garden. R,4: People on porches of homes. People in line. At a desk, man speaks with individuals, writes each a check. Children at school. Nursery school. Farm scenes. R.5: Missionaries treat patients at clinic. Still picture of woman at wash tub, contrasted with live scene of woman using washing machine. Children use mobile library. R.6: Scenes of Lincoln Memorial College, Hanowgate, Tenn., J. C. Campbell Folk School and Community Creamery. Men carve wood at folk school. Scenes at Mt. Valley Creamery Association, Brasstown, No. Car. Community House, Wooten, Ky. Male and female choirs sing. Outdoor religious service. R.7: Man leads mule with small boy on its back. Family greets them. Female missionary talks to family about teenage girl's education. Lumbering work. Coal mine, Harlan, Ky. Rural electrification project. Dramatization of a man nearly electrocuted; workers rescue him. R.8: Medical missionaries demonstrate health care at outdoor clinic. Farmers demonstrate machinery. Truckloads of people arrive for town meeting. Men blast rock at Norris Dam site, Tenn. Lumbering scenes. R.9: Berea (?) College campus. Woman learns to cane chair. Asheville, No. Car. Farm School truck. Men plant young trees. R.10: Mountain scenics. Car tries to navigate bad road. Construction equipment at work. Woman pets caged reindeer. Rural electrification scenes. Contrast of still picture of woman at washtub with live scene of woman at electric washingmachine. Dam construction. Men unload fertilizer sacks from train onto trucks. R.13: Dam site; construction work. Students drink from outdoor fountain at school. Rural electrification scenes. Line of outhouses. Farm scenes. County fair; animals and produce on display. Close-ups of various 1935 state license plates.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups