Currently identified as "Fieldwork Footage," this 3-minute excerpt shows the Loughman, ...
Fieldwork Footage
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
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Fieldwork Footage
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Status
Released
Release Date
Jan 8, 1928
Runtime
0h 3m
Genres
Documentary
User Score
57%
Original Title
Fieldwork Footage
Director
Zora Neale Hurston
Description
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.