Long Bow Film Project
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1988.5.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gordon, Richard, 1953-
label: Collection Creator
content: Hinton, Carma
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content: Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 125,000 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1982
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: Outtakes from a film project documenting life in Long Bow Village, Shanxi Province, north central China. Filming included funerals, weddings, agricultural methods, two families at home and at work, village sideline industries, fairs, drinking games, lao man yue (full month) birthday parties, local operas, local historical songs and kuai bar, music, movies, vendors, markets, children's games, classroom scenes, architectural details and building practices, and street life. Also filmed were festivities at the lunar new year--Chun Jie (Spring Festival) including: stiltdancing, lion dances, giant swings, fireworks, new year's couplets, ancestor worship, and a Lantern Festival. Project also includes interviews with more than 20 people ranging from village officials to ordinary peasants covering topics such as: marriage, divorce, medical care and other social services, the Communist Party, religion, land reform, co-ops, the Great Leap Forward, an all-women's strike in a village workshop, practicing geomancy, footbinding, details of decollectivization, state of Catholicism in the area, and treating mental illness with traditional methods. The edited films, STILT DANCERS OF LONG BOW VILLAGE, ALL UNDER HEAVEN, FIRST MOON, SMALL HAPPINESS, and TO TASTE A HUNDRED HERBS were produced from this project.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Agricultural practices China ; Crops rice China ; Rites and ceremonies ; Marriage customs and rites g ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Music ; Instruments musical instruments ; Dance ; Domestic and family life ; Children games ; Marketplaces ; Religion ; Gender ; Politics and culture ; Architecture