Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Name: Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Director: Zora Neale Hurston
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1940
Cast: Zora Neale Hurston, Reverend George Washington, Izora Robinson, Hugh Washington, May Belle Washington

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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

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Original: Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

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Year: 1940

Language: English

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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".