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Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres
1960 | 29mins
Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres
1960 | 29mins
On an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off. But the islanders know the winter sea and its…
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…
Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
2020 | 7mins
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
1983 | 25mins
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
2019 | 58mins
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
1987 | 29mins
Loggers And Their Lore
1987 | 29mins
Half-hour folk art 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…
Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
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
1973 | 5mins
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…
Pearl Fisher
1985 | 28mins
Pearl Fisher
1985 | 28mins
The freshwater pearl industry once flourished along Indiana's inland waterways. The Wabash, flowing south from Lafayette to join the Ohio at Mt. Vernon, bustled with the shallow…
High Steel
1965 | 14mins
High Steel
1965 | 14mins
This short documentary offers a dizzying view of the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake who work in Manhattan erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers.
People's Stuff
1992 | 23mins
People's Stuff
1992 | 23mins
People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and motivations as they share both…
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.
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.
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…
Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage…
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