Felicia R. McKinnon
Br’er Rabbit Tales.
Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation, Family Home Entertainment, 1991. Story collection includes recent versions of Joel C. Harris’s
Uncle Remus Tales
. (48m)
Digging for Slaves: The Excavation of American Slaves.
Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1992. Documentary that describes the ways of life for slaves in the south. Provides opportunity to understand slavery’s impact on architecture and agriculture on prominent plantations in South and North Carolina and Virginia. (60m)
Roots, vols.1 and 2.
Warner Home Video, Inc., 1977. A docudrama of the captivation of Africans to become slaves in America. Highlights the plight of Alex Haley’s ancestors as they were forced to leave their village in Gambia, West Africa. (180m)
Song of the South.
Walt Disney Films, 1946. Disney’s re-creation of Harris’s Uncle Remus tales. The movie takes place on a Southern plantation (Georgia) where the main character, a slave Uncle Remus, is often seen singing and telling his tales to young white boy. (94m)
* all suggested films for the unit are available in the Yale Film Studies Library.