Movie

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

★ 6.5/10 · 11 votes 1940 0h 42m Released

Documentary

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".

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston Herself R Reverend George Washington Himself I Izora Robinson Self H Hugh Washington Self M May Belle Washington Self C Carrie Belle Washington Self