Fieldwork Footage

Name: Fieldwork Footage
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1928
Duration: 3 min
Rating: 5.7

1928 · 3 min

Documentary

★ 5.7

Criterion

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Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

Crew

Director Zora Neale Hurston
Director of Photography Zora Neale Hurston

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston

Crew

Director — Zora Neale Hurston
Director of Photography — Zora Neale Hurston

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