Release Date

24 Mar, 1940

Runtime

00:42: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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".

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Actors

Zora Neale Hurston

Reverend George Washington

Izora Robinson

Hugh Washington

May Belle Washington

Carrie Belle Washington

Hattie Mae Washington

Julia Jones

Henry Moore

Reuben Stephenson

Willie Robinson

Frank Bates

Carrie Roberts

Crew

Lou Brandt

Bob Lawrence

Norman Chalfin

Zora Neale Hurston