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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Release Date:March 24, 1940

Running Time:42 min

Genres:Documentary

Director

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston Reverend George Washington Izora Robinson Hugh Washington May Belle Washington Carrie Belle Washington Hattie Mae Washington Julia Jones Henry Moore Reuben Stephenson Willie Robinson Frank Bates

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Synopsis

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".

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