Southern Highlanders (1947)
1947 · Ephemeral film · 15 min · dir. Lawrence Madison
- Documentary
Synopsis
Part of Ford Motor's AMERICANS AT HOME series--tells the story of the backwoods people who live in the beauty and awe-inspiring grandeur of the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee--panoramic shot of the Appalachian Mountains--cars going through winding roads up mountain--man sings folk song (bluegrass)--square dance party (country western)--boys and girls doing shores; feeding chickens, fetching water, cutting wood, helping mother w/ laundry, etc.--boys and girls in…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Lawrence Madison
- Writer
- Burton J. Rowles
- Released
- 1947-07-15
- Running time
- 15 minutes
Cast & crew
- Lawrence Madison Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Glimpse of a Lost World · Cletus Grindstaff · 2003-05-31
Appalachia before the advent of the mobile home and supermarket. The population in many of these mountain communities is now less than one-fourth of what it was when this film was made. Descendents of the original European settlers are being outnumbered by residents moving in from outside- retirees and people with seasonal homes.
★★★ · Met a miner, 48er.. · Spuzz · 2005-06-12
When I first started 'Southern Highlanders' I started, for some odd reason, to compare this film to 'Brandon', which, if you havent seen it, is like THE WORSY FILM EVER on the Prelinger Archives (really, nothing has come close to it). I'm not saying this is exactly like it, but there are a lot of similarities to it I find. Basically an exploration of people in the deep south, them people living in the mountains. They're a simple folk you see, and don't need a lot of fancy things to get by. Anyways, the film itself is somewhat dry and hokey in places, nothing really too exciting here. It…
