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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

Documentary
Release Date: 1940, March 24
Directors: Zora Neale Hurston
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Julia Jones, Henry Moore, Frank Bates, Reverend George Washington, Izora Robinson, Hugh Washington, May Belle Washington, Carrie Belle Washington, Hattie Mae Washington, Reuben Stephenson, Willie Robinson, Carrie Roberts

Overview:

Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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