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Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
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Film by
Alan Lomax
Produced by Mark Dibb, Penny Forster, Alan Lomax, Jaime Barrios
Cinematographer: Jim Brown, John Bishop, Nicholas Echeverria
Sound:
Editing: Mark Tobin with Howard Sharp, Jenny Campbell
Copyright: 1991, Association for Cultural Equity
58 minutes, Color
Original format: 3/4 tape, 1991
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Preview one minute trailer - Comment on film
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An examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80 years old) of Johns Island, S.C.; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, W.V.; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, N.C.; Blues by Jack Owens and Sam Chatman of Mississippi, footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymn, and Jazz performed in Preservation Hall in New Orleans.
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