Harold Terhune Interview, 19 June 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0521

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Harold Terhune Interview

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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

Creation: 19 June 1991

Creator

From the Collection: Stoney, George C. (Person)
From the Collection: Helfand, Judith (Person)

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Harold Terhune was a newsreel cameraman during the 1934 textile workers' strike.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:02 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Terhune discusses shooting newsreel footage of the 1934 textile workers' strike at Callaway Mills in LaGrange, Ga., how newsreels were made, his perceptions of the strike and union members, and the what the newsreel companies were looking for in terms of footage.