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Diary of a Mountain Girl (1939)

1939 · Ephemeral film · 19 min

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Running time
19 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Yonder them mountains · Spuzz · 2012-05-06

Interesting little fil that tells of how thw Methodist Christians came over yonder mountain and saved everybody! Well, not really, but it seems the gist of this film, that everyone was uneducated til a priest came over the mountain and started whipping everyone into shape into settlements. While I dispute the facts of that, it DOES tell of a community progressing, and you can certainly feel that in this film. The girl's progression is told thru diary entries (her 12 year old penmanship is suspiciously too neat) and it provides a very good time frame. Very good, well told story with a…