Children play in rural Florida

Fieldwork Footage and Ethnographic Films

Shot by Zora Neale Hurston

Nine years before publishing Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston traveled through Alabama and Florida with a 16mm camera. There she captured ethnographic footage of the Black communities she would later write about in both fiction and memoir.

 

Fieldwork Footage and Ethnographic Films

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Director: Zora Neale Hurston

Year: 1928-1929

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Genre: Documentary