Women Films (Northeast)

Shakers
Shakers
1974 | 30mins
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Shakers
1974 | 30mins
THE SHAKERS traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable religious sect through the memories and songs of Shaker sisters in New Hampshire and Maine.
Hamburger and Dolma
Hamburger and Dolma
2000 | 49mins
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Hamburger and Dolma
2000 | 49mins
Over preparations of a sumptuous Armenian meal of stuffed vegetables (dolma), five Armenian-American women discuss their feelings of alienation from their ethnic community and…
Basketmaker
Basketmaker
1973 | 7mins
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Basketmaker
1973 | 7mins
1973 16-mm film of Elizabeth Proper, the last of the white oak basketmakers in a community near Taconic Hills in eastern New York State.
Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses
1950 | 23mins
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Grandma Moses
1950 | 23mins
Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember…
Plenty of Good Women Dancers
Plenty of Good Women Dancers
2004 | 53mins
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Plenty of Good Women Dancers
2004 | 53mins
“Plenty of Good Women Dancers” features exceptional Philadelphia African American women tap dancers whose active careers spanned the 1920s-1950s.
Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
2011 | 38mins
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Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
2011 | 38mins
Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…
Weaver
Weaver
1974 | 8mins
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Weaver
1974 | 8mins
Featuring, Margaret Carr, a well-known figure in the upstate New York weaving community

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