Zora Neale Hurston — Director (2)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage (1928) [Movie] Douban
Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage
director: Zora Neale Hurston
other title: 左拉·赫斯顿的伐木场素材
Author and sometimes filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston filmed this three minutes worth of footage that was shot of a logging community in Loughman, Florida. Honestly, it's pretty hard to actually "rate" this movie since it's basically just a bunch of clips of men logging but it's certainly of historic interest considering who made it plus it gives us a chance to see some black people at work during a time when there's not too much footage of it. This three-minute film was included on Kino's Pioneers of African-American Cinema and it's certainly worth watching as a curiosity piece.