Grass roots, the enduring art of the lowcountry basket, a film by Dana Sardet ; produced by the Center for the Documentary at the College of Charleston in association with Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture, [and] the Museum for African Art, New York

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Grass roots, the enduring art of the lowcountry basket, a film by Dana Sardet ; produced by the Center for the Documentary at the College of Charleston in association with Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture, [and] the Museum for African Art, New York

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"Distributed with assistance from the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor and the Avery Research Center"--Label on outer wrapperFunding provided by Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Humanities Council (S.C.), South Carolina Arts CommissionIncludes 2 short video clips: A different day : the Penn School (5:58 min.), which provides the eyewitness acount of LeRoy E. Brown of basket making at the Penn School on St. Helena Island, South Caroina in the early 20th century; with period photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner ; and African rice & baskets (5:05 min.), which depicts the rice-growing regions of Sierra Leone and Senegal where today villagers make colorful coiled baskets with similarities to basket making in lowcountry South Carolina

Color

mixed

Configuration of playback channels

unknown

resource.creditsNote

Director, videographer, editor, Dana Sardet ; executive producer, Virginia T. Friedman ; community advisors, Henrietta Snype, Nakia Wigfall ; original jazz compositions, Quentin E. Baxter ; historian, Dale Rosengarten

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other

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videodisc

Physical Description

1 videodisc (27 min.), sound, color, black and white photos, 4 3/4 in.

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific Material Designation

videodisc

System control number

(Sirsi) a460843(OCoLC)244835558