Featured Films
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Tabla Apprenticeship2022 | 11mins
Tabla Apprenticeship2022 | 11minsThis film captures the special relationship between world renown tabla player Sandeep Das and his young apprentice to whom he is passing on this ancient music tradition. Using… -
Almeda Riddle1985 | 28minsAlmeda Riddle1985 | 28minsThis video tells how and where Arkansas ballad singer Almeda Riddle began her 10 year stint of singing old ballads all over the country. In an informal manner, folk musician Starr… -
Loggers And Their Lore1987 | 29minsLoggers And Their Lore1987 | 29minsA look at the poetry, songs, crafts and festivals of Northwest loggers. Aired 1987. Won PMN “Best of the West” award, Cultural Documentary, 1988. Funded by National Endowment for… -
Stephen Lee - Cranberry Grower1986 | 5minsStephen Lee - Cranberry Grower1986 | 5minsThis documentary was part of a program on five short subjects about traditional activities in the New Jersey Pinelands National Preserve: railbirding in the meadows, cranberry… -
Born for Hard Luck1976 | 29minsBorn for Hard Luck1976 | 29minsA film portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buckdances, and a live medicine-show performance.