Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Name: Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1940-03-24
Duration: 42 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Zora Neale Hurston, Reverend George Washington, Izora Robinson, Hugh Washington, May Belle Washington

Criterion Channel

6.4(10 votes)

1940

0h 42m

Documentary

woman director

Overview

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".