[Camera tests]
Camera operators learn to use video cameras while an offscreen instructor offers guidance.
Camera operators learn to use video cameras while an offscreen instructor offers guidance.
A discussion of the preservation of cultural history from the John Fox, Jr., Festival in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
A series of performances at the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival in Kentucky.
00:10 Onscreen text and logo for Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, KY, 41844. No sound. 00:39 An elderly man sitting in a rocking chair on his porch, reads the last will and testament of his great grandfather, John Sellars, who died in 1838. 02:58 Over a bluegrass fiddle soundtrack, images of a Kentucky valley. 03:30 Title Card: “Mountain Ways.” Additional onscreen text: “Historical Artifacts: Southwest Virginia Museum and Natural Tunnel State Park.” 03:48 Images of a forest, with a creek […]
A performance of songs from Appalachia including both original compositions and traditional folk songs.
00:38 Question from a citizen about redress when one’s land is damaged by mining operations. Discussion of regulations placed on mining companies and the prevention of active strip mining and “high walls.” 04:37 The elimination of rim cuts, high walls, and other situations that are an imminent hazard to life and health. 09:11 The effects of Pennsylvania laws in the 1960s limiting the environmental impact of mining. It is true that mining companies went out of business or consolidated, but […]
A meeting about efforts at environmental reclamation in mining country in Southwestern Virginia.