Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A house in South Carolina. A woman meets another in a boarding. Gus, the renegade stands and watches them. The two ladies meet in a garden. They hug each other. A house situated in background. The woman shakes hands with a man. She talks to him. The Little Colonel arrives. He stands on the street. Both of the ladies talk. The woman leaves after sometime. A chair present outside the house. The little colonel orders Gus to keep away from the girl. Gus talks to another man. The little colonel sits nearby a river. He smokes cigar. Some children arrive near the river. They put a white covering on them and hide in the field. Other children arrive and watch them. The Ku Klux Klan,or KKK, is formed.
Film opens showing members of an African American family seated on the porch of their house in the Cooper River District of South Carolina. They are all engaged, including the father, in weaving, what in those days were called, "Congo Baskets." (The grass used by these basket makers is indigenous to the Cooper River District, and not found elsewhere. But the same type of baskets are made in various parts of Lowcountry Africana, associated with the Geechee-Gullah culture in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.) As the basket makers work, a man, with a pig on a leash, walks slowly past the busy family. In the next scene, while others continue working on their baskets, the man deftly cuts Palmetto leaves into strips that are used to sew the baskets. Next, the camera focuses on individual workers showing their dexterity and skill as they work. In the final scene, the man examines and displays finished baskets of several different designs.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A man sits on a chair. He looks at a paper. A man arrives. Two African American soldiers with swords in their hands arrive with the man. They talk amongst themselves. They argue. The man gives a white mask and clothes to him. He goes back. A lady arrives near the man. She talks to him. She views the paper and discusses with him.
African American life and education in rural South Carolina, United States in the 1930s. Group of young African American women, possibly students, stand under a tree posing for the camera, and then they turn and head into a building. Two African American children clean the exteriors of a house with brooms. Disabled African American man sits on a wheel chair. Man greets the disabled man. View of a grave yard or cemetery. Child climbs into school bus. African American boy stands by the side of a car. View of building (possibly school building) and farm land in southern U.S state of South Carolina.
Views of Khūzestān Province and Esfahan (Isfahan) Persia, circa 1916. (The southern part of Khuzestan was also known as "Arabistan.") Rugged hills and dunes in desert region. A single dirt road through part of the area connecting some clusters of dwellings. Water splashing from the rear driving wheel of a Stern wheeler river boat underway on the Karun River. Black smoke billowing from the boat's stack. It appears to be towing a barge. Several long wooden passenger boats tied up at riverside, near building. Palm trees in the background. Closeup of art on the dome of the ancient Safavid-era Shah Mosque in Esfahan (aka Isfahan). Front of the mosque, with minarets. Iranian man herding some livestock and Merchants bringing goods to market on donkeys, passing through ancient arch way. Some men and a girl walking through the town. Two men smoke hookahs. A sandal maker at work. A local bazaar, lined with merchants selling their wares. People walking through the bazaar, including one who appears to be a British Colonial Officer in the South Persian Rifles.
Presbyterian mission work in the southern appalachian mountain region of Madison County, west of Ashville, North Carolina. Man attaches a skid cart to a horse. A woman climbs in the skid. Man inspects dilapidated buildings. Group of men work at rebuilding and restoring the buildings. One man adjusting a door handle or lock, another man cutting wood with a saw. Storefront of Allanstand Cottage Industries at 16 College Street, Ashville, North Carolina, originally founded by Frances Goodrich. Sign "Allanstand" over the entrance way and the words "Blue Ridge" seen above that. Sign in a window under an awning, "Allanstand - Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild" (which later became the Southern Highland Craft Guild). 1930s era car parked out front of the shop. Pedestrians pass by on the sidewalk in front of the Allanstand Craft Shop. Bearded man rebuilding a stone post beside a driveway or road, with a farm and cows in the background. Another man in business clothing looks on.
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