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Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison
1966 | 29mins
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison
1966 | 29mins
Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by…
Albert Collins
1989 | 56mins
Albert Collins
1989 | 56mins
Portrait of Albert "Hap" Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine. Hap Collins was a poet, painter, fiddler, lobster fisherman, storyteller, and craftsman.
Alex Stewart: Cooper
1973 | 11mins
Alex Stewart: Cooper
1973 | 11mins
A 1973 film of Alex Stewart, a mountain craftsman from near Sneedville, Tennessee, constructing a churn. Film includes discussion of the use of non-powered tools and skills handed…
Amish: A People of Preservation
1975 | 54mins
Amish: A People of Preservation
1975 | 54mins
The Amish keep surprising their technology-programmed neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans wish they could recapture. Mennonite historian John…
Art of Ironworking
2011 | 16mins
Art of Ironworking
2011 | 16mins
The culture and identity of contemporary ironworkers in southwestern Wisconsin.
Baking Bread
2011 | 28mins
Baking Bread
2011 | 28mins
This 28 minute piece documents the construction of a communal bread-oven in Cambridge, NY. As part of the events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City…
Becoming Geppetto
2022 | 1h 10mins
Becoming Geppetto
2022 | 1h 10mins
Becoming Geppetto gives us an intimate and serenely meditative front-row seat to the Petros's guitar making process, as well as a look into their family life and history.
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…
Bellota - A Story of Round-Up
1969 | 32mins
Bellota - A Story of Round-Up
1969 | 32mins
The disappearing traditions of the old cattle ranches of the Southwest are presented in director Philip Spalding\'s film BELLOTA. This 1969 film concentrates on five Mexican…
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of…
Boom and Bust
2015 | 31mins
Boom and Bust
2015 | 31mins
Boom and Bust is a meditation on economic cycles and the American Dream. This remarkable film tells the story of industrial expansion and decline along the Erie Canal, and…
Cameraman Has Visited Our Town
1989 | 19mins
Cameraman Has Visited Our Town
1989 | 19mins
An introduction to H. Lee Waters and his Movies of Local People 1936 to 1942. A film by Tom Whiteside.
Carnival Train
1999 | 1h 10mins
Carnival Train
1999 | 1h 10mins
A behind the scenes look to see how the magic of the midway comes together, town after town, and how carnies create a community and way of life that transcends place and time.
César‘s Bark Canoe
1971 | 57mins
César‘s Bark Canoe
1971 | 57mins
Using only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum, César Newashish, a 67 year old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve demonstrates how to build a canoe the "old" way.
Circus Minimus
1977 | 3mins
Circus Minimus
1977 | 3mins
Jack Ofield's 16-mm film shows the work of Henry Duncklee, who retired from his job as a circus sign painter in 1949, and begin building this circus of his own.
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