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Film, Video Palmour Street Also known as: Palmour Street : a study in family life / Wikipedia alternate title: Palmour Street : a Black family in Gainesville, GA / Palmour St

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Title

  • Palmour Street

Other Title

  • Also known as: Palmour Street : a study in family life
  • Wikipedia alternate title: Palmour Street : a Black family in Gainesville, GA
  • Palmour St

Summary

  • Depicts an African American family, living in Gainesville, Georgia. Through typical situations of family living it demonstrates how parental love, tolerance, and understanding help little children to face everyday upsets and strengthen them against major crisis. This film encourages audience response by posing the question, "What would you do if you had problems like this family?".

Names

  • Clifford, Bill, film director, cinematographer
  • Stoney, George C., film director, screenwriter
  • Merritt, Wes, 1916-1999, actor
  • Merritt, Mildred, 1922-1988, actor
  • Applebaum, Louis, 1918-2000, composer
  • Butler, E. E. (Emmett Ethridge), contributor
  • Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993, contributor
  • Georgia. Department of Public Health, sponsor
  • Hall County (Ga.). Health Department, contributor
  • Southern Educational Film Production Service, production company
  • Health Publications Institute, film distributor

Created / Published

  • United States : Health Publications Institute, [between 1949-1951]

Headings

  • -  African American families
  • -  Parent and child
  • -  Child rearing--Psychological aspects

Genre

  • Educational films
  • Sponsored films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Release date varies in sources.
  • -  "A study in family life"--Parenthesized on title frame.
  • -  Wes Merritt, Mildred Merritt, Shirley Merritt, James W. Merritt Jr., Randall Merritt, Vernon Merritt.
  • -  Photographer, Bill Clifford ; music, Louis Applebaum ; sound, Phil Bangs ; chief technical advisers, W.A. Mason, M.D., M.P.H. and E.E. Butler, M.D. ; commentary, Rev. Wm. Holmes Borders.
  • -  Filmed in Gainesville, Georgia, including in and around the home at 511 Palmour Street.
  • -  Part of summary from Films in psychiatry, psychology & mental health.
  • -  Sources used: Wikipedia, viewed November 24, 2023; Films in psychiatry, psychology & mental health, 1953, p. 179 viewed online November 27, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; National Union Catalog, Motion pictures and filmstrips, 1953-1957, p. 622; Prelinger, R. The field guide to sponsored films, 2006, p. 72 viewed online October 30, 2023 via Internet Archive.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 24 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • American Archives of the Factual Film Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023600650

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Clifford, Bill, Film Director, Cinematographer, George C Stoney, Wes Merritt, Mildred Merritt, E. E Butler, William Holmes Borders, Sponsor Georgia. Department Of Public Health, Contributor Hall County . Health Department, and Film Distributor Health Publications Institute. Palmour Street. composeds by Applebaum, Louis, , produceds by Southern Educational Film Production Serviceuction Company [United States: Health Publications Institute, between to 1951, 1949] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600650/.

APA citation style:

Clifford, B., Stoney, G. C., Merritt, W., Merritt, M., Butler, E. E., Borders, W. H. [...] Health Publications Institute, F. D. (1949) Palmour Street. Applebaum, L., comp, , Southern Educational Film Production Serviceuction Company, prod [United States: Health Publications Institute, between to 1951] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600650/.

MLA citation style:

Clifford, Bill, Film Director, Cinematographer, et al. Palmour Street. comp by Applebaum, Louis, , prod by Southern Educational Film Production Serviceuction Company [United States: Health Publications Institute, between to 1951, 1949] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023600650/>.