Title

Lytle family film: reel 14. Untitled

Creator

Lytle Family

Identifier

mum00709_hm41_r14

Disclaimer

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Description

Automobiles parked outside of church; African Americans outside of church; African American man and woman posing for camera, man dressed in all white; African American women with church fans next to automobile, African American man dressed in all white; wide shot of cars parked in the grass, and a group of African American men and women wearing all white walking toward camera and being lead by two people in all black; close up African American men and walking in a line dressed in all white; white shot of African American men and women in church clothes and all white walking to edge of water; shots of crowd gathered at river for baptism; two African American men dressed in all black at the front of crowd in the water, rows on each side of the men in black dressed in all white; shot of man wiping sweat from head and back of neck with cloth; African American woman being baptized in river; shot of crowd, church fans, person in crowd passes out, people around assist person; young African American woman being lead out of the river after being baptized; African American woman in crowd reacting charismatically among crowd; African American woman being baptized and reacting charismatically, hard cut young African American woman being lead to baptism, hard cut of ministers being escorted out of water; three young African American girls walking down road toward church, automobiles and mule in background; blurry shot of people leaving church; blurry shots of automobiles and people getting into cars, blurry footage of congregation near water, blurry shot of water; wide shot of African American church goes out near water, African American men in church clothes resting in shade; African American men and women dressed in white being led to baptism site; shot of congregation looking at the water; older African American man wiping nape and head with cloth, church fans, African American men praying; shot of congregation with white woman in dress standing on top of a car in the background overlooking baptism scene; African American minister and men at front of congregation holding hands and entering water; African American men in all white leading young woman to baptism, young woman reacting charismatically; African American woman in the crowd reacting charismatically; shot of the congregation and water as minister baptizes woman; woman in crowd reacts charimatically; young African American woman in all white wearing Usher sash; congregants leaving baptism site and shaking hands; close up shots of cotton in field; Picking and ginning title card; blurry shot of two people working in field; close up of bag with Rosie Mekay written on it as she fills it with freshly picked cotton; close up of African American man picking cotton; wide shot of laborers in cotton field and weighing station, man on horse transporting large bag of cotton into close up of scene; blurry shot of bagging cotton; close up of hats and people at weighing station at truck carrying cotton; close up of African American hands with pencil and paper recording information; young African American man dumping bag of cotton into truck, close up of cotton; shot from on wagon of mules and African American man transporting cotton to gin site; African American man using device to suck up cotton out of wagon, cotton going through Murray Gin close ups; dark footage of African American man working with cotton gin; African American man recording information in notebook with newly packaged cotton; young African American men moving bales of cotton; shots of baled cotton; O.K. for Loading label; young African American women and children walking down dirt road with bare feet; shot of mule pulling large cotton bale with two African American men; Winter breaking begins title card; wide shot of African American man operating tractor in field, close up of tractor then back to wide shot; shots of sun setting over rural landscape

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Amateur films; Families; Baptism -- Mississippi; Cotton growing -- Mississippi

Relational Format

video recording

Extent

0:12:56

Original Format

8mm (photographic film size)

Original Collection

Home Movie Collection (MUM00709), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/5

Rights

In Copyright; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Comments

B-wind color reversal. Kodachrome stock with possible 1929 and 32 Kodak date codes. Broken perforations and rough splices throughout. 18 FPS.

A complete shot list is attached below as an additional file.