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  [Camera tests]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Roots of Video

  Camera operators learn to use video cameras while an offscreen instructor offers guidance.

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  Citizens’ Workshop reel #1

  Appalshop, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A meeting about land rehabilitation in Norton, VA.

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  [John Fox, Jr., Festival – Panel Discussion on Preserving Cultural Heritage]

  Appalshop, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A discussion of the preservation of cultural history from the John Fox, Jr., Festival in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

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  [Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival]

  Appalshop, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A series of performances at the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival in Kentucky.

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  Mountain Ways

  Appalshop, CLIR, Roots of Video

  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 […]

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  [Coal Mining Songs and Stories]

  Appalshop, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A performance of songs from Appalachia including both original compositions and traditional folk songs.

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  [Virginia Citizens for Better Reclamation 4]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Roots of Video

  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 […]

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  [Virginia Citizens for Better Reclamation meeting 3]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A meeting about efforts at environmental reclamation in mining country in Southwestern Virginia.