| FERVOUR! An Afro-American baptism in the Missouri River. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5250 |
| Catalog #: | 100979 | |
| Clip Number: | 100979-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1048 | |
| Timecode: | 01:54:08 - 01:55:08 | |
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1924 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: African - Americans LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA RELIGION: Baptism / Christening RELIGION: Christianity, Protestant, Baptist | |
| Description: | "FERVOUR! Remarkable scenes at public baptism of Negro Converts in the Missouri River". M/S of several Afro-American men standing up to their waists in a river, one of the men appears to the preaching to a crowd on the river bank. With the help of another man the preacher dunks a woman dressed in white in the water, she coughs and splutters and is helped to the bank. High angled shot of the group on the bank - they clap and sing. M/S of people on the bank, a woman dances and sings wildly; she appears to be completely carried away with the atmosphere of the occasion. M/S of another woman being baptised in the water by the preacher and his assistant, as she re-emerges she waves her hands in air ecstatically and has to be supported by the men as she walks out of the river. (adult baptism) | |
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