Vanishing Frontier, The (Pt 2)
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Genre: Educational
Creator: North Carolina Film Board
Format: 16mm
Sound: sound
Description: SPONSOR: North Carolina Film Board. PRODUCTION CO.: WBTV (Charlotte, NC). RESOURCES: Copyright notregistered; Howard Thompson, “Carolina Board Shows 3 Films,” NYT, May 8, 1964, 40; Elmer Oettinger,“The North Carolina Film Board: A Unique Program in Documentary and Educational Film Making,”Journal of the Society of Cinematologists 4 (1964–65): 55–65. HOLDINGS: Not reported.Documentary showing the challenges faced by North Carolina’s mountain communitiesin adapting to modern life. According to Elmer Oettinger, North Carolina author WilmaDykeman found that The Vanishing Frontier “explores, reveals, and interprets with cool intelligenceand a warm sympathy the paradoxes, problems, and promises of our mountain region.”NOTE: The film brought to the screen information from a 1962 Ford Foundation survey.Also known as The Dying Frontier.
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