Deep South (Film)

• Bertha Powell: housekeeper
• Jesse Graves: minister
• Bessie Guy: Celebration guest
• Ernest Baskette: home builders
• Oliver Hartwell: home builders
• Winifred Gordon: Man at the wedding ceremony
• Willie Best
• Daisy Bufford

Deep South is an American short film directed by Leslie Goodwins. The musical film in which the Hall Johnson Choir sings nine songs, was released in January 1937.

Action

The slaves Zeke and Ca'line work as cotton pickers on a plantation. You want to get married, but the other slaves on the plantation saddened because they can build a house not because of their work, such as tradition, the couple. The plantation owner has a view and is the cotton pickers from work.

The wedding is being prepared and in addition a common food and the wedding in the evening the house is built. At the end you can see the newlywed couple in front of their new home, while the other slaves the song My Old Kentucky Home intone.

Awards

Deep South in 1938 for an Oscar in the category "Best short film (two rolls of film ) " nominated, but could not prevail against Torture Money itself.