Films Featuring Chapel Hill (Expanded to NC overall)

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"This is Chapel Hill" 1948

"Black and white film describing the history of Chapel Hill and the history and activities of the University of North Carolina, especially the consolidation of the University. Frank P. Graham, R. B. House, and other university administrators make brief appearances. There are descriptions of Franklin Street businesses, like Andrews-Henninger Co. and Varsity Department Store, Wentworth & Sloan Jewelers, The College Shop and Carolina Bootery, Jack Lipman. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association. The Hospital Savings Association. City Hall, Village Mayor R. W. Madry, the police department, the WDUK radio station, the Carolina Theater. Agricultural resources of Orange County, Farmers Cooperative Dairy Inc. Hill Bakery & Pastry Shop. Montjoy & Leigh Food Store. Seafood Grill. Harry's Delicatessen. Danziger's Coffee Shop. Famous writers Paul Green, James Street, Noel Houston, Betty Smith, Josephina Nichols, James Saxton Childers, Daphne Athas. Service Insurance and Real Estate Company. J. B. Goldston. Johnson Stroud Ward Furniture Company. The Whitehall Shop. University Florist. Bennett and Blocksidge Coal Yard. Huggins Hardware. Yates Brothers Plumbing and Heating Service. Chapel Hill Research and Planning Board. Hazard Motor Company. Senters' Drug Store. Knight-Campbell Hardware. Smith Provost Cleaners. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Service Clubs. Chapel Hill High School. the local Rec Center. Terrace Supper Club. Bank of Chapel Hill. Ledbetter Pickard Stationery Store. Foister's Camera Store. Sloan Drug Store. Strowd Motor Company. Digitized from a VHS tape, the film's visuals can be blurry or poor quality."

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This is Chapel Hill

Black and white film describing the history of Chapel Hill and the history and activities of the University of North Carolina, especially the consolidation of the University. Frank P. Graham, R. B...
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mpaer said:
My Avatar is Terry Sanford-I said it was because he was the State's first Progressive politician
Zoo said basically
Hold my Beer FPG
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Sanford worked on FPG's campaign -- clearly he learned a lot. He's interviewed in the Graham documentary linked here.
 


The last Jubilee held at UNC, Chapel Hill campus, 1971. This is a movie made for the Student Union by Jim Bramlett, Rick Gibbs, and Charlie Huntley; with terrific help from H.B. Hough, Bill Hatch, Rod Waldorf, Peter Chaikin, Jim Eldridge, and Tom Eshelman. The performers included Chuck Berry, Spirit, Cowboy, Muddy Waters, the J. Geils Band, the Allman Brothers, and Tom Rush.
 
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The last Jubilee held at UNC, Chapel Hill campus, 1971. This is a movie made for the Student Union by Jim Bramlett, Rick Gibbs, and Charlie Huntley; with terrific help from H.B. Hough, Bill Hatch, Rod Waldorf, Peter Chaikin, Jim Eldridge, and Tom Eshelman. The performers included Chuck Berry, Spirit, Cowboy, Muddy Waters, the J. Geils Band, the Allman Brothers, and Tom Rush.
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The only one I went to. I remember that I had a good time but it's one of only two times in my life that I did things I don't remember. Fortunately, it didn't get troublesome.
 
I was there in body and sort of in mind. I remember bits and pieces. The Allmans and Cowboy in particular.
 
finesse said:
That's the ones, along with Spirit who played on the same stage, that I remember best.
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One of my dormates always has to play I Got a Line on You Babe when we all get together. For whatever reason that stuvk with him from Jubilee.
 
I was very far away from CH from like 68-76
I don't know what my biggest regret is
Missing Phil and Walter or missing Jubilee?????????
 
mpaer said:
I was very far away from CH from like 68-76
I don't know what my biggest regret is
Missing Phil and Walter or missing Jubilee?????????
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Sort of a hobson's choice. I'm now sitting here thinking what would I choose.
 


"Printed and released in 1951, North Carolina's transition from an agrarian economy to an economy based more on industry is described, featuring the Town of Clinton, NC. Produced by Southern Educational Film Production Service, Inc., for the NC Resource-Use Commission. Photographed by Ray Marcato and Bob Gordon, music by Ledford Carter, edited by Barbara Clements, written and directed by George Stoney. The call number for this item is MPF.32.
Courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Length: 23 minutes
Production Year: 1951
Closed captions: Not available"
 



H. Lee Waters, Hillsborough, NC, January 19 and 20, 1937 [MPF.87.1]​

From the collections of the State Archives of North Carolina. This silent, black-and-white film contains footage shot by H. Lee Waters (1902-1997) of Hillsborough, North Carolina in Orange County on 19-20 January 1937. The call number for this item is MPF.87.1. Length: 19 minutesProduction Year: 1937Closed captions: Not availableH. Lee Waters (1902-1997) operated a photography studio on Main Street in Lexington, North Carolina, for more than 60 years. For most of that time, his work covered the standard range of commercial still photography-weddings, portraits, school groups-but during the lean years of the late Depression Waters hit the road with a 16mm camera and projector and created "Movies of Local People" eventually accumulating a body of work depicting at least 118 communities primarily in North Carolina but also including nineteen places in South Carolina, nine in Virginia, and one in Tennessee. Waters' films reveal the comings and goings of everyday life on the streets of the towns he filmed-men, women, and children going in and out of stores, walking down the sidewalks, often smiling and waving at the camera but sometimes unaware of its presence. Often parades, festivities, and school children were featured. Waters developed a fluid and expressive style, and the films feature an often vivacious depiction of community life along with beautiful portraits and experimental special effects. His movies would be screened with feature films in the local theater for a modest fee, and they served as a marketing tool for the theater by enticing more people to come to the movies. These short silent films were a commercial and artistic success, and in the mill towns and the small cities of the Textile Belt, thousands of people saw themselves and their communities on the big screen. These films record ordinary and extraordinary people, businesses, and events at a pivotal time in small town southern America, and they often show individuals and places that would not have been documented on film in any other circumstance. Waters' films provide the only extant visual documentation of commercial enterprises and events in many instances.-------------The Waters family maintains the copyright to the films made by H. Lee Waters (1902-1997). As public access has improved, we are pleased with the interest being shown in this unique collection and feel that the community building activities and educational purposes for which they are being used would be greatly appreciated by Mr. Waters.The family takes seriously its obligation to protect the integrity of this large body of work and it is our wish that the original intended uses be respected. The films digitized by The State Archives of North Carolina should be exhibited or displayed in the form of videos and not screen captured as still photographs. The still image collection by H. Lee Waters is housed at the Davidson County Historical Museum (DCHM). The family’s agreement with DCHM states that there will be no duplicate collection of still photographs. We encourage groups wishing to identify individuals in the films to utilize other ways of viewing this material. We ask that people who have received permission to use the films refrain from sharing this material with third parties. Any commercial requests should be directed to the State Archives of North Carolina, Office of Registrar for review. The family (Tom Waters and Mary Waters Spaulding) asks the State Archives of North Carolina to notify us of any commercial requests. Such requests would then need to be negotiated with the family.


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"Printed and released in 1951, North Carolina's transition from an agrarian economy to an economy based more on industry is described, featuring the Town of Clinton, NC. Produced by Southern Educational Film Production Service, Inc., for the NC Resource-Use Commission. Photographed by Ray Marcato and Bob Gordon, music by Ledford Carter, edited by Barbara Clements, written and directed by George Stoney. The call number for this item is MPF.32.
Courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Length: 23 minutes
Production Year: 1951
Closed captions: Not available"
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A couple of thoughts about this film.
1. First mention of the term "yeoman farmer" came less than 3 minutes in. About what I expected.
2. Black people were shown much more than I would have expected in 1951.
3. Not even a hint of Research Triangle Park and what it gave birth to throughout NC.
4. The hopeful, rosy?, future for Eastern North Carolina turned out to be largely illusory.
5. The widespread poisoning of rivers in Eastern NC is a deadly legacy of the industry predicted in this film.
6. The flicker of hope from textile manufacturing was largely illusory. In Eastern NC, textile manufacturing rose and collapsed within the first forty years of my life. It started earlier and lasted longer in the Piedmont, but today it is just as gone as it is in Eastern NC.
7. The flame of hope from furniture manufacturing burned brightly for a while but is largely gone now.
8. NC's wealth and future is concentrated in two areas: around Charlotte and the stretch from Raleigh to Winston-Salem. Everywhere else seems to depend on tourism, agriculture (cotton, soybeans, sweet potatoes, & tobacco hangs on), and meat (pigs, turkeys, & chickens) packing. These "Everywhere else" jobs seem to be pretty much at or near minimum wage. Not much of the golden future suggested by this film.
9. GIven the outsized impact of military spending (Ft. Liberty, Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point, Seymour Johnson Field, and Sunny Point Terminal), their lack of mention seems odd. Given the location of all these bases makes one wonder how much worse off would Eastern NC be without them?
 
Kind of imagining how I might use this in a class. It is essentially a Primary Source, or a snapshot in time, from 1951 and how specifically the NC Resource-Use Commission, and more generally, the government of NC, wanted the state to be viewed. The Lee Waters video (of which there are quite a few more) is a bit more neutral or perhaps one could say, honest/not propaganda though there are still potential biases or factors that must be considered in making a judgment on how "true to life" that footage might be.
 
This Lee Waters film of Chapel Hill is only of African Americans. Waters traveled the state filming towns and communities and then would show the footage in the local theater. I know there was an African American movie theater right near 'Gates of Heaven' Body Work so this must have been for there.

 


North Carolina State Fair, c. 1972-1974 [MPF.122.6]​

From the collections of the State Archives of North Carolina. Color motion picture film; Optical sound; 16mm; 25 minutes. Film opens at the North Carolina Agriculture Building; barker with top hat; people in line for tickets; scenes following one family throughout; fair scenes; important people getting onto Ferris Wheel; nighttime scenes; Bob Hope and a beauty queen; Hope meets the family's little girl; barker again; end credits. The Century Film Productions "North Carolina State Fair" series contains raw film and soundtrack elements, workprints, and final prints of the short promotional film about the annual state fair in Raleigh, North Carolina. The film includes brief highlights from years past, but mainly follows one family throughout their day at the fair. Several of these film elements received conservation treatments and were copied as part of a 2014 National Film Preservation Foundation Grant, which resulted in the creation of a preservation mag track, a preservation color internegative, a preservation positive optical track, a preservation negative optical track, and a New Answer Print. The NFPF Grant funding was secured largely due to the efforts of film historian and archivist Melissa Dollman, who processed the Century Film Collection and worked with Dr. Devin Orgeron’s film studies class at NC State University to research the studio and the work of the owner and filmmaker O. B. Garris.


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