Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition | Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition | Moving Image | Fishers 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) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition
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- 1986-03
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- 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) | Moving Image | Singers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Music (master version) & Sawmill (raw footage)
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- 1977
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- 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) | Moving Image | Fiddlers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Music (unedited) & Sawmill (raw footage)
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- 1977-04-14
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- 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 | Moving Image | Sawmill 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Sawmill and Folklore & Superstitions
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- 1977
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- 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) | Moving Image | Television 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)
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- 1977-03-08
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- 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 | Moving Image | Storytellers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Superstitions; Cowboys & Cattle
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- 1977
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- 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) | Moving Image | Television Boats and boating Storytelling Family history Occupational folklore Sawmills Logging Loggers Personal experience narratives Oral narratives Oral performance Tales Harmonica players Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (edit tape)
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- 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) | Moving Image | Painters 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)
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- 1977-01-13
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- 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 | Moving Image | Needleworkers Auctioneers Video recording Bobbin lace Oral communication Auctioneering Lacemaking Lace and lace making Lace bobbins Elementary schools Classrooms Students Needlework Occupational groups Occupational folklore | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Folk demonstrations at Garden City Elementary School
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- 1988
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- 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 | Moving Image | Photographers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Shrimping Documentary - Blessing of Fleet
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- 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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