Way Down South

ms - man in front of orchestra bows
LS - full orchestra in front of city scape backdrop
ms - man directing orchestra (playing arrangement of "Dixie")
vertical wipe transition from bottom
ms -paddle boat on river
ms - paddle boat tugging logs
ms - bales of cotton as far as the eye can see
MWS - workers in cotton field
ms - black man all in white picking cotton
iris transition from middle
ms - man firing cannon in confederate uniform, other men reload
smoke from cannon becomes wipe line transition from left to right
ms - civil war soldiers on horses
ms - battle sequence, man falls off horse
diagonal wipe
ms - soldiers running
diagonal wipe
battle scene
vertical wipe
ms - cavalry running horses
ms - same
ms - men in country outfits with rifles
ms - cavalry jumping over hedge
ms - cavalry charge, southerners drive them back
LS - people running through town
ms - union cavalry enters town begin firing rifles
ms - same
cu - cross fade to waving confederate and union flags
cu - cross fade to Lincoln and union flag
me - cross fade to town folk cheering as confederate soldiers march through town
ms -cross fade, int. black woman singing, inside cabin, men sitting w/ her
MCU - same black woman (actually looks like a white woman in black face), still singing
ms - back to establishing shot, men in cabin join in singing
(group of men gambling on the floor in background)
LS - group of people outside a cabin and building w/ a gaslight. (looks definitely like a sound stage) men in group begin to dance
ms - black men doing soft shoe
MCU - men's feet, then one man does a break dancing manuever of sorts
ms- back to shot one of men
LS - back to establishing shot
LS - people doing "African type" dance
cross-fade back to group (LS) in front of cabin inferring the "true origins" of African-American celebration and dance through graphic match
cross fade
ms - black women talking and laughing in front of fence in classic "Mammy" attire
ms - black woman dancing inside circle of men
cross fade
LS - back to group dancing in front of cabin
LS - boat lit up on the water at night
horizontal wipe from top to bottom
ms - conductor in front of orchestra
LS - orchestra in front of art deco city scape