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Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
A 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.
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
Shot in 1969, SHOUTIN' THE BLUES is a one shot, one story and one song short film of harmonica great, Sonny Terry. Seated in a motel room on Broadway in Oakland, California where…
Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
Presents a nostalgic tribute to the American medicine shows of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shows a re-creation of a typical medicine show by veteran performers,…
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
On a hot July night in 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia slipped into his landowner’s home “Edenhurst,” beat him unconscious with a piece of stove wood, and dragged…
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
The gifted African American storyteller Louise Anderson (1921-1994) tells her family stories and folk tales, and recites poetry in this film taped in Jacksonville, North Carolina,…
Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
At the time of his death in 1996, "Tommie" Bass, was probably the most well-known herbalist in the United States. The subject of scholarly and popular books, television features,…
Elijah Pierce: Wood Carver
1974 | 18mins
Elijah Pierce: Wood Carver
1974 | 18mins
Hundreds of people must remember going to Elijah Pierce's barbershop on Long Street, seeking Pierce's latest woodcarvings, spiritual conversation, or simply a haircut and gossip.…
Cooperative Grocery
2008 | 17mins
Cooperative Grocery
2008 | 17mins
This is a remarkable "inside" glimpse into Southern folk culture and the roots of Southern "raconteurship" at it’s most authentic and best.
Ray Lum
1972 | 18mins
Ray Lum
1972 | 18mins
Ray Lum (1891--1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.
I Ain‘t Lying
1975 | 22mins
I Ain‘t Lying
1975 | 22mins
16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The…
Swapping Stories
1998 | 26mins
Swapping Stories
1998 | 26mins
Tall tales, oyster shucking monsters, and some good old fashioned jokes are all on the menu in Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana.
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