Primitive America
odd: label: General
content: HSFA 1991.4.1
name: label: Creator
content: Ideal Pictures Corporation (Chicago, Ill.)
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Tennessee
topic: label: Topic
content: Farm life
label: Topic
content: Mountain life
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute, John F. Kennedy Center, in 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ideal Pictures Corporation (Chicago, Ill.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, black-and-white silent; 328 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1991.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film distributed by Ideal What-Nots depicts life in the Smokey Mountains of southeastern Tennessee. Scenes include inhabitants collecting honey, shearing sheep, spinning wool, weaving cloth, cooking corn pone, making candles, and molding pewter spoons.  (Probably filmed originally in the late teens, early twenties.)

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