Moving Image Research at Wilson Special Collections Library: Moving image collections

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1972-1979
Subjects: Folklore ; Music ; Foodways
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Field Recordings ; Interviews

Videotapes related to folk music and traditional life of the Middle Atlantic and Southern regions of the United States, including Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and West Virginia. Robert D. Bethke, a white folklorist and professor, compiled the materials, along with undergraduate students enrolled in his folklore courses at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. The collection includes field recordings, interviews, and live performances by folk, bluegrass, and blues performers, including Ola Belle Reed (Ashe County, N.C.), Ted Lundy (Galax, Va.), James "Son Ford" Thomas (Washington County, Miss.), and Franklin "Frank" Hovington, (Frederica, Del.).

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1973
Subjects: Folklore ; Music
Genres/Forms: Home Movies

Super 8mm home movies documenting the 1973 Ole Time Fiddler’s & Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C. Shot by roots music fan, Brian Burch, the footage primarily depicts festival attendees, leisure activities, and performances by old-time and bluegrass musicians.

part of the Southern Historical Collection
Dates: 1948-1998
Subjects: Industry ; Business ; Labor
Genres/Forms: Industrial ; Advertisements

Videotapes and films related to Burlington Industries, Inc., a Burlington, N.C. cotton manufacturing plant founded in 1924 by James Spencer Love, a white textile manufacturer. Includes, advertisements, annual reports, and company meetings, as well as moving images related to human resources and public relations and Research and Development, including training films, safety films, employee interviews, and recordings of television segments related to Burlington Industries, Inc.

part of the Southern Historical Collection
Dates: 1981-2001
Subjects: Education
Genres/Forms: Educational

Videotapes related to the Cherokee Language Project created by Robert H. Bushyhead, a Cherokee tribal elder, storyteller, and language preservationist, and his daughter, Jean L. Bushyhead Blanton, both of Cherokee, N.C. The videotapes, which were originally intended for preschool through twelfth grade students, consist of lesson plans, activities, and songs on the Kituhwa dialect of the Cherokee language. The collection also includes other videotapes related to the Bushyhead family, including flute music by Eddie Bushyhead, interviews and television appearances with Robert H. Bushyhead, and documentation of the Cherokee, N.C. outdoor drama, Unto These Hills.

part of the Southern Historical Collection
Dates: 1983-2009
Subjects: Civil Rights ; Social Justice ; Labor ; Industry ; Education ; Campus History ; College Students
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Speeches; Interviews

Videotapes of various demonstrations, meetings, speeches, and historical events documented by Yonni Chapman, a white, life-long social justice activist, organizer, and historian who focused his academic and social efforts on workers rights and African American empowerment in central North Carolina. Chapman filmed and edited the majority of the videotapes, which primarily document events in central North Carolina. The collection also contains documentaries about the Greensboro Massacre and the 1969 cafeteria workers' strike at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1949-2019
Subjects: Folklore ; Music ; Art
Genres/Forms: Educational ; Documentary

Videotapes and films affiliated with Folkstreams.net, an online resource designed by filmmakers, folklorists, and scholars to disseminate documentary films about American folk culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these moving images give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. Materials cover a wide range of folk life subjects and locations, including music, art, crafts, food ways, religion, and storytelling, among other topics. Please note that the majority of collection materials are accessible on Folkstreams.net.

part of the Southern Historical Collection
Dates: 1979-1983
Subjects: Civil Rights ; Social Justice
Genres/Forms: Television ; Documentary ; Interviews

On 3 November 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party attacked Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators as they gathered for a public march in Greensboro, N.C. Five CWP members were killed and eleven others were injured. The Greensboro Civil Rights Fund (GCRF) was organized by the families and friends of the deceased CWP members and raised funds to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, the Greensboro Police Department, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF). Videotapes include copies of videotapes of the actual Klan-Nazi attack and three documentary television shows on the attack, the victims, and the anti-union and racist views of the KKK and Nazis in Greensboro, N.C.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1940s-2008
Subjects: Education ; Social Justice ; Labor ; Industry ; Ecology ; Politics & Government ; Music
Genres/Forms: Educational ; Documentary ; Interviews

Videotapes and films related to the Highlander Research and Education Center (previously called the Highlander Folk School), a social justice leadership training school and cultural center located in New Market, Tenn. Videotapes document the Highlander’s history, events, workshops, political action, and educational outreach on grassroots organizing related to labor, the environment, immigration, and protest music, among other topics. The collection also contains Highlander's reference library of commercial videotapes and films, most of which focus on environmental and labor issues, as well as grassroots organizing in the United States and Latin America. Materials are in English and Spanish.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1986-1991
Subjects: Folklore ; Music ; Religion
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Field Recordings ; Interviews

Videotapes documenting traditional folklife of North Carolina and Virginia, including footage of traditional musicians, storytellers, quilters, and Primitive Baptist services. Nancy Kalow, a white folklorist, made most of the videotapes in collaboration with Alice Gerrard, a white musician and folklorist, and Andy Cahan, a white educator and traditional music collector. The majority feature white and African American traditional fiddlers and banjo players, including Walter Raleigh Babson, Thomas Burt, Calvin Cole, Bert Dickens, Enoch Rutherford, and Joe and Odell Thompson.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1984-2011
Subjects: Folklore ; Art ; Music ; Religion
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Field Recordings ; Interviews

Videotapes on southern vernacular art created by Judith McWillie, a white artist, author, and professor emeritus of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Ga. Video recordings include interviews and field recordings of southern artists, including footage of artists Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, Joni Mabe, J. B. Murray, and Art Rosenbaum. The collection also contains McWillie's documentation of Baptist church services in Athens, Ga.; footage related to the Athens, Ga. arts and culture scene; and McWillie's video field work conducted in Cuba.

part of the North Carolina Collection
Dates: 2002-2015
Subjects: Nature ; Science
Genres/Forms: Television ; Field Recordings ; Interviews

Videotapes of unedited footage and aired broadcast episodes of Exploring North Carolina, a UNC-TV distributed television program about North Carolina's local landscapes and natural resources produced by Natural World Productions. Videotapes feature the plants, animals, geology, and history, both natural and social, of North Carolina.

part of University Archives
Dates: 1984-2012
Subjects: Campus history ; College students
Genres/Forms: Speeches ; Press Conferences ; Television

Videotapes, films, and digital video related to university events that the News Bureau (and later, News Services) documented, including commencement, the university's bicentennial observance, University Day, and press conferences. Also included are feature stories, public service announcements, and promotional videos, as well as recordings of television segments related to the university, faculty, and student body.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1972-1990
Subjects: Folklore ; Music ; Art ; Religion
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Educational ; Field Recordings ; Interviews

Videotapes on regional history and folklife subjects compiled from various sources, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Folklore Department and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Includes documentaries on North Carolina and South Carolina history, town life, culture, religion, folk art, and folk music, as well as field recordings and interviews with folk musicians, blues musicians, and folklorists.

part of the Southern Historical Collection
Dates: 1940s-2000s
Subjects: Mass media ; Public health ; Medicine; Music ; Civil Rights ; Education
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Educational ; Industrial ; Field Recordings

Videos and films depicting the filmmaking process of George C. Stoney, a white documentary filmmaker who was a pioneer in the movement for the creation and use of public access television to enact social change. Moving images consist mostly of elements related to George Stoney's documentary films, How the Myth was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978) and The Shepherd of the Night Flock (1975), a documentary film about a jazz ministry at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan. Other productions represented in the collection include All My Babies: A Midwife’s Own Story (1952) on midwifery, particularly by Black women in the South; Painting from Nature (1972) on Dennis Puleston, a white naturalist; In China, Family Planning is NO Private Matter (1978) on family planning methods in China; The Weavers Wasn't That a Time (1982) on the white folk singing quartet, The Weavers; Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma (2003) on community members re-visiting the civil rights movement in their small town of Bellport, N.Y; and materials related to a work-in-progress, Finding Freire, on the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1973-2014
Subjects: Folklore ; Foodways
Genres/Forms: Documentary ; Educational ; Field Recordings

Videotapes and films related to the documentary and educational films of R. Stanley “Stan” Woodward, a white independent filmmaker and educator. Materials consist mostly of unedited footage and production elements created by Woodward, but also include final copies of Woodward’s documentary films and educational films. Woodward's moving image materials primarily focus on traditional foodways of the South, including video productions on grits, barbecue, and the stew-making traditions of Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Other topics of Woodward’s films include student filmmaking, music, art, religion, and space travel. Please note that you can view many of Woodward’s finished documentary films and educational films on Folkstreams.net.

part of University Archives
Dates: 1981-2010
Subjects: Campus History ; College Students
Genres/Forms: Television ; Press Conferences ; Interviews

Videotapes produced by UNC Student Television (STV), the entirely student-run television station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials consist mostly of videotape masters, copies, and elements related to STV programs, including talk shows, news magazine programs, sketch comedy shows, melodramas, music programs, and clip shows. The collection also contains video recordings of campus and community events, such as lectures, press conferences, workshops, student body president forums, mayor forums, and town council meetings.

part of the James E. Shepard Memorial Library at North Carolina Central University
Dates: 1976-1992
Subjects: Politics & Government ; Social life and customs ; Television Broadcasting
Genres/Forms: Television

Broadcast master videotapes generated by television station WTVD in Durham, N.C., 1976-1992. Included are tapes from locally produced shows Reflections, Reel Perspectives, Primetime, Primetime Saturday, and Primetime Sunday. The videotapes treat a wide variety of subjects, many of which focus on community-related issues and African American life in North Carolina. Programs feature personalities of local and national significance, including African American journalists Ervin Hester, Cathy Stowe, Gail Paschall, and Miriam Thomas.

part of the Southern Folklife Collection
Dates: 1994-2008
Subjects: Music ; Art
Genres/Forms: Television ; Documentary ; Interviews

Videotapes documenting the Triangle's indie rock music and arts scene from 1994 to 2008. Includes live recordings, music videos, and public access television programs recorded by Craig Zearfoss, a white videographer. Notable musicians and bands featured on the live video recordings include, Ben Folds Five, Peter Case, Drive By Truckers, Alice Gerrard, Man or Astro-man?, Tift Merritt, Old 97's, Pipe, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Superchunk, Two Dollar Pistols, and Whiskeytown. Many of the materials found in the collection relate to Sleazefest, an annual Chapel Hill, N.C. music festival that Zearfoss documented from 1994 to 2004.