Deep South
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1995.11.8
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jones, R. Bryson
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content: R. Bryson Jones travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (42 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,700 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Incomplete edited film used by an amateur travel-lecturer documents travel in the southeastern United States. Footage includes scenes of freighters in New Orleans harbor and at a pier; military parade down unidentified street in New Orleans; flooded streets with cars moving through high water and stranded pedestrians; beachfront and piers of unidentified city (Miami?); men fishing from beach with fishing rods and small nets; sunbathing under palm trees; large tank with porpoises and other sea creatures; man descending into tank with "old-styled" diving suit complete with helmet and air hoses; underwater shots of porpoises, sharks, rays and sea turtles in tank; woman swimming underwater; a man wrestling with an alligator; long bridge and highway (possibly overseas highway through Florida Keys); mangrove swamps and trees dripping with Spanish moss; zoo(?) featuring parrots or macaws doing tricks, cockatoos, peacocks, flamingos, macaques and other primates; cotton fields with black people picking cotton; black men and children hoeing and black flower seller standing on street corner smoking pipe. Film also records visit to the Citadel military school in South Carolina showing buildings and cadets marching on parade ground and Jamestown colony in Virginia, and Appomatox and Pocahontas State Park.