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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

1940 · 0h 42m · Documentary · United States of America

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".

Directed by
Zora Neale Hurston
Starring
Zora Neale Hurston, Reverend George Washington, Izora Robinson, Hugh Washington
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