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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Occupational folklore"
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Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition

Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition

Date
1986-03
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 29 minutes. Documentary 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.) The video can be viewed online through the Folkstreams web page at http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=137
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Florida Yesterday: Music (master version) & Sawmill (raw footage)

Florida Yesterday: Music (master version) & Sawmill (raw footage)

Date
1977
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 84 minutes). Music: 3-15-1977. Consists of several music performances, with stories by Frog. He also discusses the history of several musical instruments with son George Smith. For more footage of this episode, see V86-55, FV-26 & FV-25. Filmed in J.V. Parker's horse barn. Sawmill: Raw footage of Frog talking with sawmill worker Joe Hendry, at Jerome Lumber Company. They discuss sawmilling in Florida in the early 1900s, including pine and cypress timber, logging, accidents and dangers of sawmills, child labor, and tools involved. Discuss working in Wassau, Kenansville, Okeechobee, Hopkins, Lake City, Levy County, and along the Suwannee River. For more footage, see FV-26, V86-29, and V86-25.
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Florida Yesterday: Music (unedited) & Sawmill (raw footage)

Florida Yesterday: Music (unedited) & Sawmill (raw footage)

Date
1977-04-14
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 44 minutes) "Music" episode footage. Filmed at JV Parkers' horse barn. Footage of Frog Smith talking with son George about various musical instruments and country music. Also cutaway shots of Frog reacting to music. See FV-26 for full episode. "Sawmill" episode footage. Scenes of Frog talking with Hendry about sawmills and a saw he invented. Filmed at Jerome Lumber Company. Florida Yesterdays was a Fort Myers-based television program filmed in 1977 that featured storyteller and folk artist Frog Smith discussing "old" Florida. Each episode was about a different topic. Produced by Channel 11 (WINK-TV).
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Florida Yesterday: Sawmill and Folklore & Superstitions

Florida Yesterday: Sawmill and Folklore & Superstitions

Date
1977
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 47 minutes) (See V86-30 for master version of Superstitions & Folklore episode; for B-roll and raw footage, see V86-56 and V86-26) Sawmill: 23 minutes; edited A-roll footage of Frog Smith talking with sawmill worker Joe Hendry at Jerome Lumber Company. They discuss sawmilling, timber, and lumber trade. For more footage, see V86-25. Folklore: 24 minutes; 2/15/1977. Frog Smith sitting in Mercer's Country Store telling stories of his family and childhood for store patrons. For more footage, see V86-26.
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Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)

Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)

Date
1977-03-08
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape) See V86-27 for the master version. Filmed at Hagan Seafood Dock, the video consists of Frog Smith talking with Lehr (on the dock, and on a couple of the shrimp boats) about alligator hunting, pirtaes, Calusa Indians, shrimping, fishing, excavating lcoal mounds, and how the Caloosahatchee River has developed. Also inlcudes B-roll footage of several shrimp boats.
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Florida Yesterday: Superstitions; Cowboys & Cattle

Florida Yesterday: Superstitions; Cowboys & Cattle

Date
1977
Description
One video recording. (3/4" tape, 34 minutes) Superstitions: (13 minutes) The second half of the episode. Filmed in Smith's home office as he tells various ghost stories and explains local superstitions. Cattle and the Cowboys: (21 minutes) Filmed in front of a barn, Smith discusses cattle ranching in Florida. He talks primarily about early ranchers Bone Mizzell and Jacob Summerlin.
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Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (edit tape)

Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (edit tape)

Date
1977-01-10
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 62 minutes) Unedited footage of an untitled episode of the WINK-produced show, Florida Yesterday. (May be the first show). Features Frog on a boat, telling family stories of growing in South Georgia and Florida. (For finished version, sans credits, see FV-30.)
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Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)

Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)

Date
1977-01-13
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 47 minutes) Raw footage featuring Frog Smith sitting in a chair near a canal, discussing his family history. Displays one of his paintings, depicting the railroad in Levy County from 1911.
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Folk demonstrations at Garden City Elementary School

Folk demonstrations at Garden City Elementary School

Date
1988
Description
One video recording. (VHS) The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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Shrimping Documentary - Blessing of Fleet

Shrimping Documentary - Blessing of Fleet

Date
1985-05
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape) Bill Abrahms (photographer); various shots of the blessing of the fleet in St. Augustine including some Backman boats, Bishop Snyder (administers blessing). 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.)
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Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping TraditionFishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping TraditionMoving ImageFishers
Net maker
Documentary videos
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Fisheries
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Fisheries processing
Fishing nets
Netmaking
Net makers
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Boatbuilding
Boatbuilders
Shrimpers (persons)
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Florida Yesterday: Music (master version) & Sawmill (raw footage)Florida Yesterday: Music (master version) & Sawmill (raw footage)Moving ImageSingers
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Storytelling
Television
Country music
Old time music
String bands
Stringband music
Musical instruments
String instruments
Timber
Sawmills
Sawmilling
Lumber trade
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Tools
Tree felling
Longleaf pine
Cypress
Storytellers
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Florida Yesterday: Music (unedited) & Sawmill (raw footage)Florida Yesterday: Music (unedited) & Sawmill (raw footage)Moving ImageFiddlers
Musicians
Sawmill workers
Television
Musical instruments
Fiddles
Violin
Storytelling
Tall tales
Jokes
String instruments
Dulcimer
Oral narratives
Oral performance
Sawmills
Material culture
Machinery
Saws
Lumber trade
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Storytellers
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Florida Yesterday: Sawmill and Folklore & SuperstitionsFlorida Yesterday: Sawmill and Folklore & SuperstitionsMoving ImageSawmill workers
Television
Storytelling
Family history
Personal experience narratives
Trains
Stores, retail
Sawmilling
Sawmills
Timber
Lumber trade
Saws
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Tall tales
Hunting Anecdotes
Hunting stories
Hunting Folklore
Fishing
Oral narratives
Oral performance
Jokes
Humor
Storytellers
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Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)Moving ImageTelevision
Storytelling
Fishing
Personal experience narratives
Tales
Docks
Alligator hunting
Alligators
Fishing stories
Shrimpers (persons)
Boats and boating
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Fishing nets
Rivers
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Interviewing on television
Fishers
Storytellers
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Florida Yesterday: Superstitions; Cowboys & CattleFlorida Yesterday: Superstitions; Cowboys & CattleMoving ImageStorytellers
Television
Family history
Florida history
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Tall tales
Personal experience narratives
Ghosts
Supernatural legends
Folklore and history
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Cattle
Cattle brands
Animal tales
Cowboys
Cows
Cowherding
Ranch life
Ranchers
Ranching
Barns
Architecture
Farm buildings
Livestock
Livestock industry
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Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (edit tape)Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (edit tape)Moving ImageTelevision
Boats and boating
Storytelling
Family history
Occupational folklore
Sawmills
Logging
Loggers
Personal experience narratives
Oral narratives
Oral performance
Tales
Harmonica players
Storytellers
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Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)Moving ImagePainters
Television
Family history
Storytelling
Performing arts
Oral performance
Jokes
Humor
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Occupational folklore
Railroad work
Loggers
Logging
Decorative arts
Art
Storytellers
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Folk demonstrations at Garden City Elementary SchoolFolk demonstrations at Garden City Elementary SchoolMoving ImageNeedleworkers
Auctioneers
Video recording
Bobbin lace
Oral communication
Auctioneering
Lacemaking
Lace and lace making
Lace bobbins
Elementary schools
Classrooms
Students
Needlework
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
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Shrimping Documentary - Blessing of FleetShrimping Documentary - Blessing of FleetMoving ImagePhotographers
Fishers
Documentary videos
Shrimpers (persons)
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Food industry and trade
Religious rites
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Prayer
Boats and boating
Photography
Priests
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