My Home Town: Bennettsville 1946

Item Description
Title
My Home Town: Bennettsville 1946

Creator
Parisher, Don (Director)

Date
1946

Subjects
Bennettsville (S.C.)--Description and travel.
South Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
City and town life--South Carolina.


Content Description
Scenes of local life and people in Bennettsville, South Carolina with aerial and street-level views of the town, showing storefronts and signage. Film primarily documents activity at various shops, businesses and restaurants, including a furniture store, photographic shop and a drugstore soda fountain. For more descriptive information contributed by the community of Bennettsville, please contact Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina.

Contributing Institution
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Rights
All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.

Geographical Location
Bennettsville (S.C.)


SC County
Marlboro County (S.C.)

Digital Collection
South Carolina Film and Video Collection


Collection Name
Itinerant filmmakers in South Carolina


Collection Description
Itinerant filmmaking was a vibrant American tradition in the first half of the 20th century. Its practitioners would travel to a city or town, film its citizens, and then project the developed footage in a local movie theater for a modest fee. School children and local businesses were favorite subjects. Over the years, MIRC has acquired several examples of the genre documenting South Carolina communities in the 1930s and early 1940s, including a handful of films by the celebrated North Carolina-based filmmaker, H. Lee Waters.

Item Title
Parisher and Gullet 1

Citation
My Home Town: Bennettsville 1946. (Parisher and Gullet 1.) Itinerant filmmakers in South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

Type
Moving Image

Format
video/H264

Media Type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Run Time
29:51


Digitization Specifications
This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original.

Title Id
Parisher and Gullett 1, SCAR 11-1


Decade
1940


Time Period
Post-War America (1946-1954)


Physical Notes
Film: 16mm
Silent
B&W
Positive
1.37:1 (Academy)
Silent
Acetate.


Website
https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/south-carolina-film-and-video-collection/