Hannah and the Dog Ghost

Duration: 30 min.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Hannah, a young widow, lives alone with her small son (turn of the century setting) in the wilderness of Texas. The boy is spirited away by an evil fiddle man and Hannah must rescue him., Folktale about a young widow and her small son who are saved from the clutches of an evil fiddler by a mysterious dog. The woman believes that she has been protected during her adventure by the spirit of her faithful husband, now embodied in a dog.

Complete Record: , Drawing upon Afro-American folklore, this film tells the frightening and suspenseful tale of Hannah, an East Texas woman and her son who is spirited away by the malevolent Fiddlin' Man. Hannah's odyssey to find and reclaim her son from the devil's snare culminates in a mysterious rescue by her dead husband who appears in the form of a dog. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop

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