City Rehabilitation #1--outtakes (Creepy Blight)

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/