People of the Cumberland

  • Sidney Meyers
  • 1938
  • United States
  • 20 minutes
  • English
  • DR
    DR

The efforts of Miles Horton’s Highlander Folk School to provide practical and political education to the deprived populations of the Cumberland mountains, in southern Tennessee.

  • Production : Frontier Films
  • Editing : Jay Leyda; Sidney Meyers
  • Sound : Helen van Dongen
  • Photography : Ralph Steiner
  • Screenplay : Erskine Caldwell
  • Copy Contact : Museum of Modern Art / Moma