Fieldwork Footage (1928)

• Documentary

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

Rating

5.7 / 10 (6 votes)

Release date

January 8, 1928

Runtime

3m

Language

English

Director

Zora Neale Hurston

Status

Released