A film about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. A man paints a portrait of a girl at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia (Clark Atlanta University 223 James P Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African American students in a sculpture class. African American young men work on art sculptures. Professor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, a Native American and African American sculpture artist, examines a bust sculpted by a student and discusses it with him. An African American man works on the sculpture. He gives finishing touches to the bust.
A film about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. Students in a photography class at Tuskegee University (1200 W Montgomery Rd, Tuskegee, AL 36088, United States) in Tuskegee, Alabama. A girl seated as a man clicks her picture. The girl poses and smiles. Negatives hang from the roof of a room. The students develop the photographs. They work on the negatives and positives.
Hale Wooduff, famous African American artist and Art Director at Atlanta University, discusses paintings with young women and young men student painters. African American students paint. A student moves applies ink with a roller over an engraving, and then uses a press to render the art on paper. The student examines the pressing. Two men paint a mural.
A phosphate mine in the United States. African American men work with shovels and pick axes to dig by hand and fill rail road gondola cars. African American workers dig out phosphate with shovels and picks. Smoke rises in the background. A foreman in a long coat stands and watches over the workers. Railroad gondolas loaded with phosphate ore. The small railroad cars are moved by locomotive train engine to an elevated dumping area. Crates of ore ascend the rail track to the top dumping station and are emptied. They are then rolled back down empty, and diverted to a different track via a rail switch. A railroad gondola train leaves the depot area towing empty cars back to the mining area. Clip ends showing a large spinning industrial drum used in part of the phosphate processing.
A phosphate mine in the United States. Revolving drums. Piles of rock at the mine. A worker points towards phosphate rock on the ground. Two men leave the mine tunnel. A rock comes out on an endless belt and drops to the ground. A steam shovel picks it up and deposits it in a huge hopper. The rock placed on the surface.
Two boys in the United states. Two prisoners seated on the ground. Their feet stuck up in stocks. The prisoners seated with shaved heads.
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