City Rehabilitation #1--outtakes (Creepy Blight)

Description: Item Description Title City Rehabilitation #1--outtakes (Creepy Blight) Creator Columbia Urban Rehabilitation Commission (Production unit) Date Note Probably filmed in 1961. Subjects Ghost stories. City planning. Columbia (S.C.)--History. Columbia (S.C.)--Description and travel. Segregation. Urban renewal--South Carolina--Columbia. Content Description Black & white drawings of ''Creepy Blight,'' a house-destroying ghost described in an initial voiceover, give way to silent color footage of clean up efforts in Columbia's Olympia, Granby Mills and Ward One neighborhoods. Made by Mabel Payne for the Columbia Urban Rehabilitation Commission. See related film, In Your Neighborhood (SCMC 45). Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library Rights Copyright: University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Geographical Location Columbia (S.C.) Digital Collection University of South Carolina Film and Video Collections Collection Name South Carolina Manuscripts Collection Collection Description These moving images from the South Caroliniana Library's Manuscripts Division were transferred to MIRC for storage and access. They form part of several South Carolina Manuscripts Collections, including the General William Childs Westmoreland Papers, ca. 1900- 2005; the Willie Lee Buffington Collection; and the Papers of the Wolfe and Ulmer Families, 1885-1953. Item Title South Carolina Manuscripts 39 Citation City Rehabilitation #1--outtakes. (South Carolina Manuscripts 39.) South Carolina Manuscripts Collections. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 19:43 Title Id SCMC 39 Date Digital 2021-01-29 Decade 1960 Time Period Civil Rights Era (1955-1969) Physical Notes Film: 16mm Sound Color Positive 1.37:1 (Academy) Variable-area optical Acetate. Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/university-of-south-carolina-film-and-video-collections/