Novelist, playwright, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was also a documentary filmmaker, having recorded film and audio of 20th-century life among Black Floridians.
Zora Neale Hurston
Fort Pierce, Florida
Films
Fieldwork Footage
Not currently available to stream
(1928-1929)
A 2018 compilation of Zora Neale Hurston's registers of activities in American black communities from the rural South, it possesses a highly anthropological value. Shot in 1928-29, the collection includes children's games, capers and dance, a baseball crowd, a baptism and portraits of a beautiful black young woman and a tall man with an axe. The images are enhanced by the score composed by Renée Clark Baker.
