Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort (Caroline du Sud)

Description
Number FIDR 024
Collection FIDR
Title Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort (Caroline du Sud)
Duration 00:14:53
Date of production 1940
Summary Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940) is a 15-minute excerpt of field recording footage that observes religious services (including communal singing and revival-style sermons) in the Gullah community of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Zora Neal Hurston was the filmmaker on a team that also included Norman Chalfin, who made field audio recordings of the events