My Home Town: Bennettsville 1946

Description: 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/