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The Holy Ghost People

Collection Production company:
CRM/McGraw-Hill Films  Search this
Extent:
2 Film reels (black-and-white sound; 1900 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1968
Scope and Contents:
Edited film by Peter Adair on a Holiness Church (Pentecostal) congregation in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. The narration contextualizes the distinctive acts of worship in this church, as in other independent churches, in terms of an emphasize on select passages of the Bible. Scenes include individual testimony, public testifying during a revival-style meeting, the laying of hands, singing, spiritual dancing, trance, and the handling of serpents.

Legacy Keywords: Speech glossolalia ; Religious practices glossolalia serpent handling laying of hands ; Congregations church community houses ; Churches sects internal organization ; Dancing convulsions Holy Ghost ; Worship singing handclapping dancing ; Music worship tamborine banjo accordian guitar ; Prayer preaching testifying ; Kinesics dancing convulsions ; Speaking in tongues testifying ; Songs spirituals "Go Down Moses" ; Preaching speaking in tongues ; Language and culture ; Caucasian Pentecostal ; Pentecostal
Local Number:
HSFA 1984.19.4
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
CRM/McGraw-Hill educational films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Archival Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9ebe60f8a-20f8-4d88-b553-8646a4e7b467
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-hsfa-1984-19-ref3

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