And So They Live (1940)
1940 · Short film · 24 min · dir. Julian Roffman
- Documentary
Synopsis
A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl period.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Julian Roffman
- Writer
- Edwin Locke
- Studio
- University of Kentucky, Educational Film Institute of New York University, The
- Released
- 1940-08-03
- Running time
- 24 minutes
Cast & crew
Julian Roffman Director
House Jameson- George Tiplady
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Gaze upon these wretched souls! · American Hero · 2011-08-26
You know, for a “stark realistic documentary” showing poor ignorant hillbillies stricken with disease, this film is surprisingly short on ignorance, disease and (in a relative sense) poverty. Rather than a starkly “realistic documentary” this film is a window into the a particular point of view of the era it was made. Through most of the film, the voice over tells a story that’s objectively in direct contrast to what is actually being shown on camera. We hear how the children are uneducated as they read aloud from English literature. We are told their bleak meal of pork and fat and cornbread…
★★★★★ · Hill Folk, · boxcaro · 2017-04-06
Ignorant they were not. These people were sent as indentures slaves from the northern counties of England [Albion's Seed, David Hatecher Fischer], indentured servants or criminals. [Read Pg:716-Hatcher] Albion's Seed: Page:715 ff Backcountry Literacy. through P.727. I quote: "We tend to think of formal education as the enemy of folkways. But most societies have a folklore of learning which might be called their school ways. The backcountry was a case in point. It adopted educational folk customs which had long existed in North Britain. The comments below exhibits a Severe Lack of Common…
★★★★★ · And we think we have it hard? · Smokindog57 · 2010-08-01
Anyone who thinks they have it hard should take a good look at this film.Very well done!
★★★★★ · Son title · jehurd · 2011-03-05
Can anyone advise the name of the song he plays and sings after giving the child a cigarette (!) ?
★★★★★ · i know folks li dis · not u · 2017-11-16
as a matter of fact. this film is rather tame. i don't need to invoke a library of congress bibliography either. these days the poor hill billy is in far worse shape. the work is the same, chopping wood, shooting animals , brewing up batches for scratch, etc, etc, etc. the hill billies detest education, in more than one instance, ive witnessed children being removed from school, cuz if they got edumacated, theyed move away.
★★★★★ · hi · Jazzymatt77 · 2020-01-28
This film started the Obesity Epidemic lol. My grandma was raised in the Smokey Mountains much the same way and she is 83.
