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Give the World a Smile For generations, the Schuyler family has lived and farmed around the Lowgap Community in North Carolina, and for generations they have produced singers who led revival meetings, attended singing schools, performed at old-time day-long singings, and sang in countless churches.
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Tradition Bearers
A documentary about Finnish American history and folk art expressed through the lives and repertories of our folk artists living in the western Great Lakes Region. Arts & Crafts, Traditional, Customs, Ethnic & Immigrant Cultures, Music, Regional, Rural Life, Aging / Midwest / 1983
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Flight of the Dove
A sensitive and perceptive portrait of the Portuguese-American dairy-farming community in the Chino Valley of southern California. This is one of the first films ever to document the experiences and culture of Portuguese Americans. Customs, Ethnic & Immigrant Cultures, Family, Festivals/Customs / West / 1989
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They Live In Guinea
Within the context of the universal problem of how rural communities must contend with the complex forces of modernization, They Live in Guinea paints a sensitive portrait of the colorful and resourceful watermen who populate Guinea Neck on the Virginia shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Agriculture / Middle Atlantic / 1996
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People Who Take Up Serpents
Members of a branch of the Holiness churches who base their religious beliefs and practices on Bible verses, especially Mark 16:18. The members handle serpents, hold fire to their bodies, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick and cast out devils. Healing & Medicine, Religion / Appalachia / 1974
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Amazing Grace
Across time, oceans and cultures, "Amazing Grace" has endured as one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language. Its universal appeal inspired the acclaimed journalist Bill Moyers to tell the story of this song through the people who have sung it. The complete film is available on high quality DVD from Amazon.Music, Religion, African American Culture / Any / 1990
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Showdown at the Hoedown
Music, Festivals/Customs, Play / South / 1976
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The Language You Cry In
The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles, from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia. It shows how African Americans have retained powerful links to their African past despite the horrors of the Middle Passage and the long years of slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the non-history imposed on African Americans: This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with the powers to connect those who sing it with their roots, their silent history. Family, African American Culture / South / 1998
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From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels
Beginning in April 1988, a number of oral histories and Irish traditional music and dance performances were videotaped for the documentary From Shore To Shore: Irish Traditional Music In New York City. Inevitably, many of these recordings were not able to be included in the original 57-minute documentary. This additional footage provides a retrospective look at a vibrant community of musicians, dancers, and audiences during one important era in the story of Irish traditional music in America. Dance, Ethnic & Immigrant Cultures, Music / Northeast / 1988
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Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember and imagine. "Then I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." Arts & Crafts, Traditional, Women, Aging / Northeast / 1950
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Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
In 2006, a group of students at Louisiana State University created short films revisiting the people and places of documentary maker Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story. / South / 2006
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