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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Directed by Zora Neale Hurston

Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Duration

0h 42m

Released

March 24, 1940

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Cast13

  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Reverend George Washington
  • Izora Robinson
  • Hugh Washington
  • May Belle Washington
  • Carrie Belle Washington
  • Hattie Mae Washington
  • Julia Jones
  • Henry Moore

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