Francis Harper, Okefenokee Swamp film footage, 1944

About 20 minutes of film footage recorded by naturalist Francis Harper of life in the Okefenokee Swamp, recorded in the summer of 1944. Original film copied onto video at Georgia Southern University as part of the South Georgia Folklife Project. There is no audio.
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Original film owned by Georgia Southern University, Special Collections at Zach A. Henderson Library. Film copied to VHS for the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.
From the Delma E. Presley Collection of South Georgia History and Culture at Georgia Southern: digitalcommons.georgiasouther...
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[@dabprod]

This was filmed the year I was born. I've been there to visit as a youth and in my 20's.

[@oldbowsaw9001]

Enjoy camping,fishing and boat riding there for the last 50 years-A real special place to me--Steven c Foster side!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sophiegrisom]

Sites around the swamp. The paved streets were likely in Waycross or Folkston. The kids playing in the water was likely the Suwannee River, perhaps as far down as Fargo, or the St Marys River.

[@miriambryant6975]

Or Twin Lakes in Valdosta

[@triciachancey1955]

Looks like Billy’s island. My grandfather was supervisor with the turpentine farming. My Dad raised there and so was I until I was 7. My Mother a grew up in Laura s walker park in a log cabin. Her Dad along with Jimmy Carter’s’,Dad helped to develop all of the swamp park and my Mother ran the gift shop. When Mama was alive we would go down to swamp park and they let us in for free. But that’s nearly 30 years ago. Spend many days in swamp fishing with Daddy. Mama killed a cow one night, though it was a bear trying to come inside. Just shots though the hole in the walls. Interesting life. Life was very different back in the swamps. The stories you hear are most likely true.

[@saltwaterinmyveins]

This is great!

[@77MIlesLong]

Does anyone know what the subject is up to when he stands in the boat, still as a hunter, wirh his hands up by his face or ears? Thx

[@77MIlesLong]

He is also poling in the manner of a fisherman during that sequence

[@carvinlambert6899]

He's listening real good for a Bull Gator..

[@maragrace820]

Turpentine farming!

[@restonthewind]

Strong turtle.