Judith Helfand and George Stoney Interview 2

Item

Identifier: L1995-13_AV0118b

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

1987-1995

Creator

Stoney, George C. (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

George Stoney was co-director of "The Uprising of '34" and a film professor at NYU. Judith Helfand was co-director of The Uprising of '34.

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (1:02:31 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Stoney and Helfand discuss concerns they had while filming The Uprising of '34, how Judith, as a non-Southerner, was able to get people to open up, Judith's concerns about traveling in the South, how they worked with various institutions to find interview subjects, and other topics.