Jamaican Revival and Kumina
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1992.1.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Moore, Joseph Graessle, 1904-1983
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content: Joseph G. Moore films of Jamaica
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 19,131 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Outtakes are from an episode of the CBS television series  Lamp Unto My Feet.  Footage was shot in conjunction with anthropologists Joseph G. Moore and George E. Simpson and Mrs. Ruth Moore in west Kingston, Jamaica, and in rural sites in and around Morant Bay, eastern Jamaica. Documentation shot in Trench Town, west Kingston, features scenes of various services in the Revival church of Malachi "Kapo" Reynolds, a well known Revival leader during the 1950s and 1960s. Documented are singing, dancing, sermonizing, trumping (onset to possession), and possession. Footage shot in the Morant Bay area includes similar scenes from a rural Revival service including the "breaking of a table" and "traveling" in the open Revival yard. Kumina footage includes preparations of a dancing booth for a "black and white" ceremony and a "tombing." This visual documentation reveals the close relationship between Revival and Kumina in rural Jamaica during this period. Also included are market scenes in Morant Bay and street scenes in various parts of Kingston.