Year

1956

Video Details

17:40; b&w; silent; V-200 FLCA005; S. 1579, Media 1979-22

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.

Contributors

Robert Leahy Studio

Corporate Subject

Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Memorial Park (White Springs, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

White Springs

Personal Subject

Bloodsworth, Bertha
Chase, Richard
Dekle, Curly
Fogel, Verena
Sheppard, Claude
Tomlin, Annie
Weaver, Harold

Subject

Folk art
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Seminole Indians