Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (excerpt)1940
Both directed by Zora Neale Hurston, and both starring Zora Neale Hurston
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Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
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DirectorZora Neale Hurston
CinematographerZora Neale Hurston