| CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers | CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers | | Work songs
Railroad work
A capella singers
Folk festivals
African Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/S1664_CSXGandy.jpg |
CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers
- Date
- 1993-05-30
- Description
- This video features railroad workers or "section hands" commonly referred to by the slang term "Gandy Dancers" demonstrating work songs used when laying rail track. Also features CSX workers at the Florida Folk Festival preparing the tracks used in the demonstration.
- Collection
| CZECHOSLOVAKIAN FOLK DANCERS | CZECHOSLOVAKIAN FOLK DANCERS | | Accordion music
Beseda (Dance)
Folk dancing
Folk dancing, Czech | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN FOLK DANCERS
- Date
- 1950 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows Czech dancers from Masaryktown, Florida dressed in traditional attire. They perform the Beseda dance, accompanied by Jerry Psenka on accordion. It also shows Czechoslovakian folk dances inside the Stephen Foster Museum in White Springs, Florida. This film has outstanding color quality. Produced by Robert Leahy Studio.
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| Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978 | Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Square dancing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/folkartsconference.jpg |
Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978
- Date
- 1978
- Description
- This film has footage of the 1978 Florida Folk Arts Conference held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. Folklorist Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, defines folk art and folklife for an off-camera interviewer. Folklorists Peggy Bulger and Ralph Rinzler, dulcimer player Jean Ritchie, shakuhachi player and ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen, and Florida Folk Festival director Thelma Boltin are also shown. The film contains additional footage of a square dance and musical performances. Produced by WJCT-TV. Photographs from the conference can be found in S 1577, Box 16, folder 33.
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| FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | | Folk art
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Seminole Indians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL
- Date
- 1956
- Description
- This film contains footage of participants and performers at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. Participants featured in this film include Seminole Indian dancers, folk dancing styles from around the world, choirs and various musicians. Musicians include fiddlers, musical saw players, guitarists, violinists and accordion players. Local students demonstrate their jump rope technique and Harold Weaver demonstrates how to make a water divining rod from a tree branch. Performers include Bertha Bloodsworth, Annie Tomlin, Folklorist Richard Chase's Punch and Judy Show, and hula dancer Verena Fogel. The film ends with whip-crackers Curly Dekle and Claude Sheppard showing off their skills. Produced by Robert Leahy Studio.
- Collection
| FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | | Folk art
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL
- Date
- 1971
- Description
- This film has scenes from the 1971 Florida Folk Festival filmed at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. It includes square dancers, Boy Scouts dressed as American Indians and bluegrass musicians. Festival director "Cousin" Thelma Boltin comments on the process of selecting festival participants. Anne Lunestad can be seen spinning cotton and Roy Lee Wallace performs a shoeshine rag. Florida Rep. Lawton Chiles can be seen among the spectators.
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| FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL | | Folk art
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL
- Date
- 1957
- Description
- This film contains footage of participants and performers at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. The camera viewpoint angles down onto the stage from an elevated position. There are numerous rough edits and splices. Performers include Tom Chaires of Old Town and Mrs. Oudland of White Springs talking about growing up along the Suwanee River. Viewers also see Stephen Foster Memorial president J.L. McMullen making a speech and storyteller Bertha Bloodsworth.
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| Florida Folk Festival 1955 | Florida Folk Festival 1955 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Pageants
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/folkfestival55.jpg |
Florida Folk Festival 1955
- Date
- 1955
- Description
- This film starts with scenes from Eleanor Phillips Barne's pageant, "Old Saint Augustine," a history of Spanish Florida acted out by local actors dressed in period costumes. More Florida Folk Festival scenes follow, including dancers, choirs, storytellers and musicians. A troupe of Jacksonville school children perform the pageant "River of May" dressed as conquistadors, pirates and American Indians. Three men march onstage with the Confederate flag, followed by female and male Navy enlistees. Native Floridian Verena Fogel performs a hula dance to music by Wally Lono and the Hawaiian Stringband. A tap dance group demonstrates their craft, with some dressed as flappers. The Alachua County Boy Scouts, dressed as "Indians," dance in front of the Stephen Foster Museum before joining representatives of the Florida Seminoles onstage. Produced by the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission.
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| Florida Folk Festival 1958 | Florida Folk Festival 1958 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/folkfestival58.jpg |
Florida Folk Festival 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Description
- This film contains several brief performances from the 1958 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. A young man comments on being a member of a musical group. Archie Lee sings and performs "John Henry" on the dulcimer. An elderly woman spins cotton thread on a spinning wheel. Several guitarist-singers perform. The audience joins in with a choir for a robust version of "Give Me That Olde Time Religion." Herta and David Marshall put "The Lord's Prayer" to music. Old Town resident Tom Chaires describes life on the Suwannee River and the Amigo Male Singers and Stanton High School choir perform songs. Produced by the Robert Leahy Studio.
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| Florida Folk Festival 1958 | Florida Folk Festival 1958 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Pageants
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/folkfestival58b.jpg |
Florida Folk Festival 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Description
- This film is composed of performance clips from the 1958 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. Seminole expert Albert DeVane of Lake Placid introduces Seminole chief Billie Bowlegs and the Frank Shore family. The audio level is very low in this portion, making the commentary nearly inaudible. Oklahoma Creek Indian and famed artist Fred Beaver performs native dances with a rattle and encourages the audience to participate as he chants. This film also features a variety of folk dances, including a young group of girls who blend ballerina technique with a folk dance. There are also Filipino dancers from the University of Florida as well as square dancers. Toshiko Mishima, a Japanese-American singer, performs a lilting ballad. Later, whip-cracker and Gainesville native Claude Sheppard demonstrates tricks. The segment ends with Czech dancers performing the Beseda dance to accordion music by Jerry Psenka. There is some film deterioration at the start and end of the film, but the middle segment is clean. Produced by Robert Leahy Studio.
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| Florida Folk Festival 1964 | Florida Folk Festival 1964 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Seminole Indians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/flba003.jpg |
Florida Folk Festival 1964
- Date
- 1964-06-30
- Description
- This film contains footage of participants and performers at the 1964 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. It opens with scenes of the Stephen Foster Memorial. A "town crier" announces the start of the Florida Folk Festival. Seminoles open the festival with a ceremonial "Green Corn Dance" and "Buffalo Dance." One Seminole, Chief Billie Bowlegs III, keeps time with a turtle-shell rattle. Folk Festival footage documents a plethora of participants, including many types of folk dancers, musicians, choirs, jump ropers, sacred harp singers, spiritual singers, storytellers, crafters and quilters. Well-known folklorist Alton C. Morris was an adviser on the film. The Amigo Male Singers provided the music. Produced by the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission.
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