Fieldwork Footage

01/08/1928

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0hr 3min

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Documentary

STORY

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Cudjoe Lewis

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English