Black Southern Sharecroppers
Farmers, by barn, hitching mules to plows. Dog follows. Leave for field (cameraman’s instructions heard).
05:13:13 Plowing field, one in vest & hat smoking cigar; other in suit and hat smoking cigarette. Men hoeing behind. LS towards camera & past. (GOOD).
05:15:01 Interior. Man sitting on window sill in kitchen as wife prepares dinner in frying pan over table & woodburning stove. Sifting flour & frying mix. Teenage son in kitchen next to brother. Family of couple & three sons at table, woman serves. Flies visible.
05:19:47 Cow outside wooden barn w/ chicken & turkeys, strutting.
05:20:27 Sd. Mother out of house calls boy. Family on porch w/ man in rocking chair telling story of woman reaching inside bear & turning him inside out. Laughing. LS & CUs.
05:21:47 In living room, young man plays piano, others singing hymn. Grandfather w/ large growth on cheek. MS & CUs.
Poverty; Farming; Southern Agriculture; Cooking; Eating; Hygiene; Southern Americana; Stereotypes; Blacks; Race; Ethnic; Negroes;
NOTE: Off-camera voice is John or Alan Lomax.
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Black Southern Sharecroppers Farmers, by barn, hitching mules to plows. Dog follows. Leave for field (cameraman’s instructions heard). 05:13:13 Plowing field, one in vest & hat smoking cigar; other in suit and hat smoking cigarette. Men hoeing behind. LS towards camera & past. (GOOD). 05:15:01 Interior. Man sitting on window sill in kitchen as wife prepares dinner in frying pan over table & woodburning stove. Sifting flour & frying mix. Teenage son in kitchen next to brother. Family of couple & three sons at table, woman serves. Flies visible. 05:19:47 Cow outside wooden barn w/ chicken & turkeys, strutting. 05:20:27 Sd. Mother out of house calls boy. Family on porch w/ man in rocking chair telling story of woman reaching inside bear & turning him inside out. Laughing. LS & CUs. 05:21:47 In living room, young man plays piano, others singing hymn. Grandfather w/ large growth on cheek. MS & CUs. Poverty; Farming; Southern Agriculture; Cooking; Eating; Hygiene; Southern Americana; Stereotypes; Blacks; Race; Ethnic; Negroes; NOTE: Off-camera voice is John or Alan Lomax.