PRESERVED FILMS

Bayshore Round-Up (1920)

Film showing the Bayshore Amusement Park in its heyday, preserved by the Maryland Historical Society with NFPF support.

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Hampton Institute Presents Its Program of Education for Life (1941)

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Hampton Institute Presents Its Program of Education for Life (1941)
 Sponsor/Production Co.: Harmon Foundation. Directors/Camera: Ray and Virginia Garner. Writer: Evelyn S. Brown. Transfer Note: Scanned at 24 frames per second from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 33 minutes (silent, no music).

Documentary about the Hampton Institute’s philosophy of integrated work and study. The film illustrates the opportunities for African American students in the trades, agriculture, home economics, the arts, education, and business and also shows young men and women in civilian and military training programs.

Note: The documentary premiered at the home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park. The Amateur Cinema League listed the film as one of the 10 best 16mm pictures of 1941. Produced in Kodachrome. Also distributed in black and white.

Resources
“Mr., Mrs. FDR to See Premiere of Hampton Movie,” Chicago Defender, July 19, 1941, 7; “A Hampton Film,” Chicago Defender, Dec. 13, 1941, 5; Negro Year Book: A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life, 1941–1946, ed. Jessie Parkhurst Guzman (Tuskegee, AL: Department of Records and Research, Tuskegee Institute, 1947), 455.