Moving Midway [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Cheshire, Godfrey.

Publication Date:

2008

Publication Information:

[New York, N.Y.] : First Run Features, c2008.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

While his cousin relocates his family's ancestral plantation home, film critic Godfrey Cheshire looks into the Hinton family history and discovers an African American branch of the family previously unknown to him. With the help of Africana studies professor Robert Hinton, who also has ancestral ties to Midway Plantation, Cheshire examines the Southern plantation in American history and mythology, and how the racial legacy from the past continues into the present.

General Note:

Title from disc surface.

Widescreen presentation.

Special features: Extra scenes and interviews (Algia Mae Hinton; DJ Spooky; Winkie on 'Colored' and 'Black'); How to move a house (photo gallery); DVD-ROM features; Filmmaker biographies.

Performers:

Narrated by Godfrey Cheshire; blues songs performed by Algia Mae Hinton.

Personal Subject:

Hinton family.

Subject Term:

Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.

Moving of buildings, bridges, etc. -- North Carolina.

Geographic Term:

Midway Plantation (N.C.) -- History.

North Carolina -- Race relations.

Genre:

Documentary films