Way Down South

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1926

Complete Record: 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