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Fieldwork Footage

1928·Documentary·3m
7.1
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.
Directed by Zora Neale Hurston
florida
new orleans, louisiana
documentary filmmaking
folklore
woman director
african american
zora neale hurston
new orleans

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston

Crew

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

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