| Every Island Has Its Own Song (rough cut, incomplete) | Every Island Has Its Own Song (rough cut, incomplete) | Moving Image | Musicians
Documentary videos
Bagpipe music
Bagpipes
Tsabouna
Material culture
Instrument manufacture
Musical instruments
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
Family history
Epiphany
Religious rites
Religious symbolism
Religious art
Catholics
Religion
Emigration and immigration
Dance
Calendar rites
Community rites
Parades
Music performance
Bagpipers
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Every Island Has Its Own Song (rough cut, incomplete)
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- One video recording (3/4 tape; 15:07) An early (and incomplete)version of the production -- for final edit, see video FV-112. Documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family. Includes family images, the Epiphany celebration, Tsimouris making and playing the tsabouna (Greek bagpipe), and discussion of Greek life and immigration. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 2) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 2) | Moving Image | Singers
Guitarist
Musicians
Fieldwork
Greek Americans
Shrines
Christian shrines
Catholics
Saints
Religious art
Religion
Christianity | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 2)
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- One video recording. 20 minutes. (Copy can be found on FV-1, S 1615. Scenes of St. Michaels shrine. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6) | Moving Image | Preachers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Greek Americans
Catholics
Religion
Beliefs and cultures
Christianity
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6)
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Two video cassettes. 20 minutes each. (Copy of both can be found on FV-4, S 1615.) Interview with Father Theophilopolus in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Greek Orthodox religious traditions and their meanings. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Nikitas Tsimouris at Epiphany Celebration (Video 35) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Nikitas Tsimouris at Epiphany Celebration (Video 35) | Moving Image | Fieldwork
Epiphany
Greek Americans
Rites and ceremonies
Calendar rites
Religious rites
Christianity
Catholics | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Nikitas Tsimouris at Epiphany Celebration (Video 35)
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- One video cassette. 20 minutes. (Copy found on FV-14, S 1615.) Shots of the Tsimouris family celebrating Epiphany. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 36-40) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 36-40) | Moving Image | Fieldwork
Epiphany
Greek Americans
Rites and ceremonies
Calendar rites
Religious rites
Christianity
Catholics
Parades
Diving
Crosses
Dance
Costumes | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 36-40)
- Date
- 1988-01-06
- Description
- Five video cassettes. (20 minutes each) (Copy of videos 36, 37, 28 found on FV-15; copies of videos 39 & 40 found on FV-16, S 1615.) The Epiphany of Our Lord is a Christian rite celebrated within the Eastern Orthodox faith. Epiphany is a Greek word meaning to make known, and refers to the visit of the Magi to Christ,thereby making him known to the world. It is the climax of the twelve days of Christmas. Tarpon Springs boasts a large Greek American community. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Palestinian Wedding Traditions | Palestinian Wedding Traditions | Moving Image | Video recording
Wedding ceremonies
Weddings
Marriage service
Marriage celebrants
Marriage rites
Rites and ceremonies
Rites of passage
Community culture
Community rites
Arab Americans
Ethnicity, Arabic
Palestinian Americans
Catholics
Church buildings
Church services
Churches
Dance
Cake | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Palestinian Wedding Traditions
- Date
- 1985-11-07
- Description
- One video recording. (VHS; 1:50:00) A video of a wedding between Musa Kamel and Georgina Marie on 7 November 1985 at the National Shrine of St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Includes the ceremony, the reception, and ends with the married couple walking into their hotel room.
- Collection
| Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary | Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary | Moving Image | Artisans
Musical instrument maker
Video recording
Documentary videos
Fieldwork
Interviewing on television
Demonstrations
Craft
Music performance
Interviews
Emigration and immigration
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Instrument manufacture
Tsabouna
Bagpipe music
Bagpipes
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
Songs, Greek
Calendar rites
New Year rites
Epiphany
Catholics
Bagpipers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Six video recordings. (Beta; 20 minutes each) Early edit tapes for the documentary "Every Island Has Its Own Song," a Florida Folklife Program-produced documentary on tsabouna (Greek bagpipe) maker-player Nikitas Tsimouris and the Greek community of Tarpon Springs. Includes interviews with Tsimouris and his family, performance on the tsabouna, local sponge boats, an Epiphany Day celebration, and the Tsimoruis family at home. The tapes have gaps for narration, insert shots, and other post-production elements. For the completed documentary, see FV-112. For the original fieldwork videos, see FV-1 through FV-17 in S 1615.
- Collection
| Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Chris Xynides; M. Tringali: Stringing the Ribbon on Boat; Blessing of Fleet Procession and Ceremony | Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Chris Xynides; M. Tringali: Stringing the Ribbon on Boat; Blessing of Fleet Procession and Ceremony | Moving Image | Woodworkers
Documentary videos
Boatbuilding
Boats and boating
Woodwork
Catholics
Religious rites
Prayer
Interviews
Boatbuilders
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
| Shrimping Documentary - Interviews with Freddy and David Backman and John Versaggi | Shrimping Documentary - Interviews with Freddy and David Backman and John Versaggi | Moving Image | Fishers
Documentary videos
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Emigration and immigration
African Americans
Catholics
Religious rites
Prayer
Interviews
Family history
Florida history
Occupational groups
Boatbuilding
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Shrimping Documentary - Interviews with Freddy and David Backman and John Versaggi
- Date
- 1985-05
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) Freddy and David Backman discuss the shrimping business - its good points and difficulties, life as African-American shrimpers, family history in shrimping; John Versaggi talks about life as a Sicilian immigrant, the beginnings and growth of the shrimping business as a whole, "industry pioneers: John Poli, Mr. Salvador, James Smith, B.B. Brooks; also discuss Billy Corkum [?]", Burbank netmakers of Fernandina, Staphius Kalara, boat maker of Fernandina, Harry Xynides, Dan Miller, Willie Bryant; both Backmans and Versaggi talk about the Blessing of the Fleet and the decline of the shrimping industry. Raw footage for the documentary, Fishing All My Days, on Fernandina's shrimping industry, produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WUFT-TV 5 of Gainesville (the local PBS station, affiliated with the University of Florida.)
- Collection
| Shrimping Video - working tapes (Blessing of Fleet: Father Baker interview) | Shrimping Video - working tapes (Blessing of Fleet: Father Baker interview) | Moving Image | Woodworkers
Documentary videos
Boatbuilding
Boats and boating
Woodwork
Catholics
Religious rites
Prayer
Interviews
Transportation
Boatbuilders
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Shrimping Video - working tapes (Blessing of Fleet: Father Baker interview)
- Date
- 1985-04-02
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 60 minutes. Father Baker describes the practice and background of the blessing ritual, boat builders describe the process of building boats and how they came to the United States and the boat-building business, Henry Xynides, Nicki and son - boat builders. Raw footage for the documentary, Fishing All My Days, on Fernandina's shrimping industry, produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WUFT-TV 5 of Gainesville (the local PBS station, affiliated with the University of Florida.)
- Collection
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