Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage in Florida (1928) | with Last Enslaved American Man скачать в хорошем качестве

Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage in Florida (1928) | with Last Enslaved American Man

Zora Neale Hurston was better known for her work as a novelist, but could be considered the first African-American woman filmmaker. This is an essential cultural document. Uploaded on Juneteenth 2024. Hurston traveled to a Southern town similar to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida to capture a variety of short takes of African-American life. It's shows activities in American black communities from the rural South, it was shot in 1928-29. At the beginning you see man wearing a hat and then chopping wood with an ax. This Cudjo Lewis - the last living slave brought toAmerica. As a slave, he went by the name "Cudjo," a day- name given to boys born on a Monday, as the sLavers couLd not pronounce the name "KossoLa." Cudjo was smuggled on the ship The Clotilde which was the last known ship to have brought slaves from Africa to the United States. By this time, the importation of slaves had been illegal in the U.S. for nearly 60 years, and British and American ships had set up a blockade around West Africa to prevent slaves being shipped from the continent. However, slave traders still attempted to illegally bring slaves to the United States due to the immense profit they stood to make by flouting the law. This film is in the public domain meaning it has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Corporations lobbied Congress to get U.S. copyright laws extended by 20 years, twice! Because of that, it allows published works to be under copyright for almost a century and corporations to squeeze every last ounce of profit from them even long after the profitability has past. It keeps people from enjoying art, which is the purpose of art. Chapters 0:00 - Cudjo Lewis 0:46 - Railroad 2:32 - Portraits Beautiful Black Young Women 3:22 - Children's Games 4:58 - Baptism In The River #ZoraNealeHurston #blackfilm #blackhistory #1920smovie #publicdomainfilms #publicdomainmovies