Ethnographic Films

Ethnographic Films

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1929

Runtime

0h 12m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

Ethnographic Films

Director

Zora Neale Hurston

Description

These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the rural South. Includes Children's games and baptism - Miami, Aug. 1929; Children's games and man with ax - April 1928; Children dancing and girl rocking on porch - Jan/Feb 1929; Baseball crowd and boy dancing capers Jan/Feb 1929.