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Upperville Show
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
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Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
The Upperville Colt & Horse Show is the oldest horse show in America. Established in 1853 by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, who also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the show…
Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist
Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist
2016 | 7mins
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Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist
2016 | 7mins
Elizabeth James-Perry's artwork is intimately tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum belts are made using indigenous materials -- locally harvested, handspun…
Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
2020 | 7mins
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Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
2020 | 7mins
Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…
Company Town
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
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Company Town
1983 | 25mins
The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston corpration in 1963.
Virginia Peanut Story
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
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Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…
Loggers And Their Lore
Loggers And Their Lore
1987 | 29mins
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Loggers And Their Lore
1987 | 29mins
A 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…
Street Music
Street Music
1979 | 57mins
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Street Music
1979 | 57mins
Filmmaker Nicholas Doob's road trip across Amerca. Performers: Pork Chop (New Orleans), Arthur C. Brenner (Savannah), Bongo Joe (San Antonio), John Wood/Rodney Gregory/ Floyd Bell…
Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright
Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright
2020 | 9mins
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Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright
2020 | 9mins
Short film featuring master wooden boat builder Harold A. Burnham. Shot both in the Burnham ship yard and on the water, the film touches on shipbuilding in Essex, the Burnham…
Raise the Dead
Raise the Dead
1998 | 59mins
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Raise the Dead
1998 | 59mins
James Ruterbeck's film about H. Richard Hall, Mike Ferree, and Eula Shelton, Pentecostal preachers and faith healers in the tradition of William Branham. Their ministry flourished…
Sacred Soul
Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
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Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
Eleven groups in eight days. A marathon recording session in a makeshift storefront studio in a 100-year-old building in the tiny Eastern North Carolina town of Fountain. Once the…
Rapunzel
Rapunzel
1978 | 14mins
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Rapunzel
1978 | 14mins
“Rapunzel” is about a young girl’s struggle with independence.
Clotheslines
Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
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Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
With verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and…
Ott Blair
Ott Blair
1973 | 5mins
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Ott Blair
1973 | 5mins
Demonstration of and commentary on the mountain craft of building wooden farm sleds by Ott Blair, a native of Heaton, North Carolina. Discussion includes first selling sled and…
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
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Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
Gypsies Sing Long Ballads
Gypsies Sing Long Ballads
1982 | 28mins
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Gypsies Sing Long Ballads
1982 | 28mins
Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in…

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