Box set: Pioneers Of African American Cinema
Barcode 738329206017
Release Date 7/26/2016

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
The Criterion Channel (1940)
Documentary
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#2373
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IMDB   5.9
42 mins USA / English
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Director
Zora Neale Hurston
Cinematography Lou Brandt
Bob Lawrence

Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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