Believe it or not I grew up in the1970s this way. We lived on a farm in Mississippi. Every summer we had a big garden, chickens, pigs, turkeys and ducks on the yard. Also a pond where we caught craw dad's and rivers where we caught big giant catfish and other fish. We had a fireplace and a big yard full of firewood my dad and brothers cut. My dad worked 6 days a week and my beautiful stepmom was a stay at home mom who got up at 6:30 every morning and made homemade biscuit's (no pancakes) with rice bacon sandwich eggs for breakfast. She washed clothes on ringer washer every other day, sewed every day and we always came home from school to a hot meal ready to eat every day. She made all our bed covers spreads and blankets. There was13 of us and the house was spotless.We never had a rat or roach . My dad was the same way she packed his lunch and water jug and Mason jar of tea every day. He went to work everyday and on the weekends made sure the grass was cut cars were worked on oil was changed and tuned up. We never had broken or busted anything if we did he and my brothers fixed it. Although he cut the big lots with a chain saw he still chopped logs or split them with an ax or used the one or two hand saw with my brothers. Funny how I just thought he liked wearing overalls. :) He hunted rabbits squirrel and pigeon. No possems or racoons or any thing like that)and sat fishing lines in the Tallahatchie river. At the onset of winter he would slaughter a pig and salt the ham hang in my the smoke house. slice the bacon and grind the sausage.Start a fire under the big black pot in the yard for my mom and she would make crackling or rather late for cooking. And lots of lard came from the cracklings. And of course she cleaned the chittlings. I had fun living on the farm we had peach trees, plum trees, peacan and walnut trees black berries persimoms and a host of other fruits growing most of you have probably never heard of growing on our farm. We had adventurous minds as children made our own cars and even play houses, lots of rolling hills and plenty green grass and a horse that was never used for labor only fun to ride
I will never forget when my mother got her first sewing machine. She sewed all our clothes 9 kids. She sewed for neighbors and friends and made enough money to finally buy us shoes. Those were the days🤗
What poor black families accomplished merely loving and helping each other is heartwarming. Although his neighbors had advanced in their production, there was no indication in the film of envy, or jealousy, only support, cooperation, encouragement, thankfulness. The old folks have always said working hard, perseverance, and kindness triumps over insummountable odds. Thank you for posting, a film about Black folks not exhibiting lives of wierdness, and violence but accomplishing hopeful expectations.
Right on , but it seems inmost places today those values went the way of the DoDo, now it's headboppin , rapcrap , torch a neighbourhood and loot , in the name of only some lives matter. News alert , All Lives Matter.
In Indianapolis a young black male...killed 5 family members because he wanted his part of the stimulus package. The youngest family member killed was seven. Thats today's family values in the city. Disgusting.
This is one of the best videos I have ever watched. I got teary when they got the saw and then again when Mama got her sewing machine, when she clapped her hands with joy.
Excellent film about a strong African-American family working together as a team to make their daily work life easier by getting a power saw to save time working. They saved their small change and put it together to buy something that benefit the entire family. Every family should watch this film to see what they can achieve together as a family if they stick together and be a family.
I'm Mexican and I worked so hard in my childhood but i know the black people had it toughest so I give them credit and respect and thank you so much for this upload I really enjoyed it I was so happy for mama for her sewing machine
None of us owe anyone hard work, we do it for the ones that we love. Remember that Black Americans are an amalgamation of various tribes of tribes that formed into one. We share ancestry with many other ethnic groups within the Americas. #AmericanFreedmen - Stay blessed
I agree. Though I was not yet born, looking at this group of men, they WERE hard workers and with a strong work ethic. Proud to see families like this working together.
Absolutely loved this movie.. Hard working family! If we in society today only worked HALF this hard and had HALF the discipline and determination they had!
Now that’s real living real richness living good good pure food no cell phones family connecting no social media poison love it,I’ll give it all up for this warm simplicity ...lots of love
@@stephenhensley5631 ignore these negative comments. It's been my observation that we're living in a generation of advanced technology in communication, yet people still don't know how to communicate nicely or appreciate the days and hard work of yesteryear.
@@morganmaloney3935 you're so lucky to have such an amazing person as a neighbor. Please tell us what happened to his dad, mom and bro....what's their story?
I'd rather live this way in the forest today than live in any city in the world, of course with some modern conveniences, but in Nature far away from city life!
Yeah. Live in wild but get that machine. I love how they started with the saw and axe and worked their way up. The heritage of slavery was next in my auto play did u watch that too? A very striking contrast for me it was.
I love this. Awesome movie . No racism or bigotry. Just good ole fashion living and HELP when needed. For that time they did come up by working together as a FAMILY and when they needed assistance their neighbors came to their assistance and when they went into the city the community knew and assisted them. Very good movie from the past that we all can learn from today.
Good ol days when family was family. No phones just communication. Sitting at the table with your family not on the phone. Working and doing chores. All this every little detail is appreciated and gold. Sad we dont have that today🙏😪
@@rickyevelynsheppard5994 : I am a former truck diver of pulp wood. The trailers are usually overloaded beyond 80,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight. My last load was 96,000lbs.
What a great inspiring film! If more people would wait and save like this determined family did for what they wanted, people would appreciate what they have.
logan wolf 🥰❤️Uuuum, Thank you for acknowledging our plight.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾The history books conveniently left out a few important details. However, that may explain why Black Folk ok constitution is the way it is...❤️
Well, democrat policies helped destroy the black family all intentional. Welfare for votes. But a man MUST NOT be in the household to get your Gov. check. The more kids you have the more money you can get. That crap was all put in place by the democrats. Most people don't know the Democrats started the Jim Crow laws, were for slavery, segregation and started the KKK. And blacks were republicans until Woodrow Wilson connived and convinced them to vote Dem, then he stabbed them in the back and twisted the blade, then he praised the KKK film Death of a Nation. Blacks then again started voting Dem again after FDR started the Civil Conservation Corp program. It was a program that black just happened to benefit from although the program was not put in place for blacks. FDR was a racist but his wife was sympathetic to the black cause. FDR refused to integrate the military during ww2 and wanted to stop the Tuskegee air training program. His wife demanded it stay operational and thus it ended up a success.
This is the best! How my family lived. The town in the video is Guyton and the paper mill is Weyerhaeuser in Port Wentworth. They where still taken "short wood" at Gilman in St.Marys till 2002.
People of non American descent refuse to believe that the infrastructure of the USA was built by Black Americans, Our infrastructure, buildings was not dependent on a person forcing themselves in a Country. This was accomplished by people who were paid No Wages. However, they know their worth in American History. And no one Will ever take that away from them. God Bless Black People who give and gave with their toil, labor and talents. Black folk is a large part of American History🇺🇸,
@Valerie Blount Certain U are relishing the recent release of the 1619 Project 400 Year Anniversary of Slavery in USA and It's impact on Every Aspect of Wealth ,Development ,Power . PBS News Hour expose with NICOLE-JONES is unforgettable....utube CBS online etc.Impacting
@@ refuse to acknowledge or Admit IT!! Destroys the myths ,justification & the DEBTS moral spiritual legal financial /myth of Superiority! The Thirst IS Real more unquenchable Now That many are loosing their minds Self destucting it's sad & not Because has nothing to do with majority of those Alive today. Abraham was told by God upon arriving in his New Land Canaan that his people would inthe future be overrun Held in captivity /Enslaved for 400 years. Irony we Via Time Magazine are Honoring Thru info facts research the August 2019 The Presentation of the 1619 Project!! Marking 400 Year Anniversary of The 20 Afican Slaves Ariiving in Virginia as The Beginning of Slavery in US as An Institution ,The Role Slaves Slavery 400 yrs of FREE Labor shaped Made possible For this Country to Become the Wealthiest Most a Powerfull Nation half a Millinea. Founder of 10yr project Nicole Jones of NY Times catch her interview on PBS news hour week ago.breaks 400 yrs an Entire world Economy Emergence of Sustsaing world of Capitalism via USA impact on Black People/ Working Class Citizens now according To Socio Econmics multi race Inclusive. How it still shaping Moral Civil Economic Business Financial Political Legal Social Economic Policy Particularly Anti Blacks & Even Rolling Backwards in recent times. Lovers Haterd Alike should Read or Listen to the Findings (historical to current Information) will find it Intriguing. We are a part of living History . Amazing !!! What will future mankind think of US 2-3, 000 years from Now. With the destruction of Books & written history
In my life time was able to experience this in the 80’s. The place was Bogue Chitto and Springfiend Mississippi. Currently my family have a logging company and doing very well....
This was probably one of the best things I've ever seen. It was compelling to the end. The ending words are something we should all be carrying with us as goals.
Whenever I get tempted by low interest rates on something I can't afford, my wife has me rewatch this. I will continue to save up for things instead of financing them. The point is to make money on my tools, not to pay for them. This film is timeless.
Thanks for the return of time. A great family working together in thick&,thin a happy family moving with time into the future people all gone but this film brings them back into our hearts and minds Thanks to everyone for making it a great video top10. We remember them
I’ll be damned. I had tears in my old ass eyes at the end. That little boy reminded me so much of myself. I had an older brother like that too. Unfortunately, he later went into the Marines and was killed in Vietnam. I had a grandma like that as well with a very similar sewing machine. I wonder why there was no mothers/wives even mentioned in the film for any of the families? In any case, this was a great little production and even had some drama in it. That damned truck! It was just jealous of the new machine they were so focused on.
so sorry to hear about your brother so many young guys were destroyed in the war if they made it home they had Shell Shock what they now call PTSD, I saw a guy like that after his tour so sad.
I’m from Mississippi and we had a saying: never pick a fight with a puckwood worker, my grandpa was one and one thing they had in common they had arms the size of Popeyes 😂
I moved to the city in the 1980s and I've told people for years that they haven't lived until they lived on a farm or in a family with love and respect for one another. I believe our work brought us together. I didn't always appreciate the hard work but me and my brother we had The Adventurous time of our lives there is no place I'd rather be than on a farm. I had a good childhood at least up to and until the time I move to City. In the city the quality of life was poor people didn't care for each other the way you saw in that film that's the way people took care of each other and Mississippi everyone was just like that. You felt loved and respected. You didn't go past someone's house and not wave at them, if they have funeral you took food to their homes, if they have fire you helped out or anything but most people were too independent to ask or to beg for anything. And we did everything for ourselves but was there for each other black and white people, just like in this clip. So don't think this is an exaggeration. Everyone respected my dad. Oh closes neighbors were middle class white people. We didn't hang out after work with white folks but we all just like in the clip looked out and had a mutual respect for one another.
I lived in such a time what wonderful people and not to many people are blessed like these I miss those times I was telling my wife today I would like to go back just for a while and have a nice visit
What a beautiful story of one family who all pitched in to better themselves. This is what makes a family. Working for and with one another with love and respect for one another. A beautiful testimony of a beautiful family.
Family values and unity towards a positive goal. Attainment of goal further striving and thriving in peaceful harmony. How can I get back to 1952? please someone, anyone know? Meanwhile Thanks
Excellent movie👍👍 I was getting all into it hoping they could get that saw. Then couldn’t wait for mother to get her sewing machine!! Really really nice info movie💜🎉👍
Black families praying together, and working together, and saving together... It's a winning combination every time. If only all black families had a father in the household like Mr Hunter, our people would be disciplined and hard working and successful!
Thanks for loading the great historical data and movie. When I visited my grandpas & cousins in East Texas. The wood was called "Puck." Wood. I loved the smell of it & would love when my family would drive past the trucks. Thanks for the experience & education. God bless
A wonderful moving movie on the African American Family - all struggling to make ends meet with the whole members of the family working together and bonding - People must remember that ALL HUMAN BEINGS needs are the same, to have work, to be loved and be treated with respect and pursue their goals with dreams of happiness without fear and prejudice from their fellow beings. Thank you - Norzin Y. Shakabpa
Aint nobody stopping all of the nostalgic from living this way now, but we know the truth of that, don't we, lol. Thanks for posting this, great to see this period material.
I watched this years ago and it got me to where if I bought anything new or anything I did not have use for that I had I would give it away to someone. People always have too much stuff around that they are not using that someone else could really use. You just don't know how that helps people.
Man them were the days life was so simple. Hard work family sitting at the dinner table.all eating together going to church together. Man I miss them days. But these are alright also.great family movie.keep them coming.
The beauty of their talents and strength of working and saving money on what you need, not want. After the fire, they were still optomistic about working harder to get what the family decided together. Simply Beautiful.
Wow! 5 words. In sper ra tion al! There is nothing you can't do if there is a genuine strong family bond coupled with mutual respect for each other. So moving! Thank you.
If I was Mrs Hunter I'd be lobbing for a washing machine (already got the Philco fridge). That would reduce washing from a likely 3 days a week down to one (eliminate the scrub board). I know a family in my area who's oldest son bought his mother a wringer/washer with his first paycheck. They had 12 children then and eventually had 16. That woman did laundry on a scrub board 6 days a week! That was reduced to one. Talk about being liberated! This was about 1940, and it wasn't in Georgia, it was Eastern Ontario (good Catholics with a huge family, poor as church mice, but the next generation was very successful, building and renovating houses).
I grew up with people like this, we had a purpose, we had good neighbors. Hardwork, at night you slept well, the garden, dirty fingernails. These were good wholesome times, Men were men and knew their role, also the women, God I wish we could turn back time.
When you know that a stupid error could result in a harder job, more lifting and toting, then you think wisely how to do the job quickly, safely and without "killing yerself"!
Thanks for sharing a heart-warming story of a strong black family unit, neighborly love, honest work ethic. This certainly helps to build a sense of self-worth and strong character in black children, especially when mother, father and children work together in an atmosphere of love and respect! This story was so educational and uplifting..... we need to pass it on!
My dad was a logger. He taught me how to load a truck. We went with him in the woods, to cut trees for home, sometimes. Only difference, he had modern tools.
You proudly speak truth✨🎶💫🔥 truth.. there has been over a million -trillion devious lies...falsehoods and misrepresentation on purpose.... The so called power structure and their assorted rage a muffins.. made sport of our misery for hundreds of years..,🧐😣.. and yet as Beloved Dr Angelou said ‘ And still I rise’💫 We are truly an amazing spiritually acute brilliant group!! Set behind jealous cruel enemy lines..’.. But their unbelievably wicked time is done... Ashe’O Peace fam🎶🌹🔥 Stay up♦️
My husband was a man(Child)of the forest which led to stage 4 prostate cancer over the years.He died in pain August 14,2019 in Virginia.Brutal work for an 8 yr old.
Dam good heritage show that family didn't give up they dug deep within that's called sticking together an I loved looking at mother face when she got her sewing machine ❤️ hard work back then but good friends an good people made it easy. Love it
Before my time love the movie and the powerful messages.📽 All things ARE Possible. Aka Determination.✊🏾 Thanks for sharing Reelblack.👍🏼 Be safe Everyone 🌏😷
I grew up like this, I have many things now, but I realize I had a lot then and didn't know until late In life. Fresh grown food every day, well water that was cold from the ground, which was the best well we thought. I would love to take a walk in the woods picking black berries, wild plums which was so sweet, and sweet wild strawberries, and Black Wild muscadines, these properties were share cropped by the owners, but we could go on many others properties hunting, or picking fruits or vegetables no one told us to get off! Great memories in a subjugated south in American history in Georgia, yes I drank out black fountains, got out of line for white folk "Yalsum" and "nal sar" was polite. That was then, this is now yes ma'am and no sir haha.
You are right. Mother Nature was good back then. You could easily find black berries, and plum's, even on the side of the roads. Now days you can rarely find them anywhere.
Hello, you didn't see such signs in this video because it wasn't filmed in Georgia, USA but in Georgia of Europe. Thats why they were land owners and not share croppers.
You are right, im watching this and I feel that the family had a lot, people today may thinks its nothing. I was born in 1980 in GA so things in my time have been quite different. But watching this I know the family in this video was blessed to have the food, a truck, a well to get fresh water, family and etc.
same thing i used to live by my grand paren on st eustatia, back in the mid sixties, we had an generator for corrent n a well with rain water , did not rely on governament support, we had a shop. n few chickens , bake our own bread, order good from the us for the store , really good independant life,
The movie was shot in Effingham County in 1952 by the United States Information Agency. The 1952 film featured members of the Hunter and Reese families of the Guyton area... The original black and white film focused on the work ethics and value system that existed with Kent’s great-grandfathers, Lewis Hunter and Terling Reese. The new film includes excerpts from the original along with on-camera interviews with surviving film participant James Hunter. He was 12 years old at the time of filming and is now 78. The original film, "Men of the Forest," can be seen on TH-cam. The original participants in the film had never seen it until it was "rediscovered" last year by a family member. The film captured the families working in the pulpwood industry, supplying wood to Union Camp in Savannah. Remington Kent's parents, David and Eleanor Kent, proved to be a lot of help in getting this film made. They provided historical and anecdotal information about their great grandfathers.
This video did not need any words. The Music would do. This a nice wholesome American History excerpt. People not of the Homeland might not understand. However, a American born and bred in the USA would enjoy this unadulterated piece of history. You want get this in the news and the computer age media😞
The dad reminds me of my grandfather. I feel so much pride watching this as it reminds me of the men from my small hometown in Alabama southeast of Montgomery called Union springs
Lisa Gamble I feel for kids that think they are skating out. I have always held an awe for young people that is willing to work hard. Even though they can subliminally use the excuse that they are too young. I use to be inspired as a young child to see these kids my age, work that hard. I took a look at myself. Young people need to watch more of these types of films instead of N🧐🙂🚩😄Fl🔥x.
I was so happy running across this Video.. Simply because my grandfather was a sharecropper here in GA. I never got to meet him because he has long passed away before I was born.. I often try to imagine how he looked and what his full days of farming was like.. How he dressed. what they ate.. This movie kind of give me some sort of idea of all that.. So, I am very thankful.. My Mother , his daughter was born 1944. so this would have put here at the age of 8rs old..but my uncles and aunts wre much older. Pine Mountain GA..
Believe it or not I grew up in the1970s this way. We lived on a farm in Mississippi. Every summer we had a big garden, chickens, pigs, turkeys and ducks on the yard. Also a pond where we caught craw dad's and rivers where we caught big giant catfish and other fish. We had a fireplace and a big yard full of firewood my dad and brothers cut. My dad worked 6 days a week and my beautiful stepmom was a stay at home mom who got up at 6:30 every morning and made homemade biscuit's (no pancakes) with rice bacon sandwich eggs for breakfast. She washed clothes on ringer washer every other day, sewed every day and we always came home from school to a hot meal ready to eat every day. She made all our bed covers spreads and blankets. There was13 of us and the house was spotless.We never had a rat or roach . My dad was the same way she packed his lunch and water jug and Mason jar of tea every day. He went to work everyday and on the weekends made sure the grass was cut cars were worked on oil was changed and tuned up. We never had broken or busted anything if we did he and my brothers fixed it. Although he cut the big lots with a chain saw he still chopped logs or split them with an ax or used the one or two hand saw with my brothers. Funny how I just thought he liked wearing overalls. :) He hunted rabbits squirrel and pigeon. No possems or racoons or any thing like that)and sat fishing lines in the Tallahatchie river. At the onset of winter he would slaughter a pig and salt the ham hang in my the smoke house. slice the bacon and grind the sausage.Start a fire under the big black pot in the yard for my mom and she would make crackling or rather late for cooking. And lots of lard came from the cracklings. And of course she cleaned the chittlings. I had fun living on the farm we had peach trees, plum trees, peacan and walnut trees black berries persimoms and a host of other fruits growing most of you have probably never heard of growing on our farm. We had adventurous minds as children made our own cars and even play houses, lots of rolling hills and plenty green grass and a horse that was never used for labor only fun to ride
WOW!!! Good Living Indeed.....
You should write a book.😏 I enjoyed reading that.
I enjoyed reading this as well 🙂
🖤🖤🖤🖤 how i wish i could have lived like that fully. I caught the tail end of it im a 80s baby and the little bit i experienced i truly do miss.
I was thinking the same thing ...this needs to be a book.
A strong black family is priceless.
So true! And in spite of what white media would have you believe, is STILL very prevalent and strong.
Amen & Amen to that.😄
And a black father that sticks around is rare
black bitches fucked that up
@@sassycappie4926 thank you
I will never forget when my mother got her first sewing machine.
She sewed all our clothes 9 kids.
She sewed for neighbors and friends and made enough money to finally buy us shoes.
Those were the days🤗
What poor black families accomplished merely loving and helping each other is heartwarming. Although his neighbors had advanced in their production, there was no indication in the film of envy, or jealousy, only support, cooperation, encouragement, thankfulness. The old folks have always said working hard, perseverance, and kindness triumps over insummountable odds. Thank you for posting, a film about Black folks not exhibiting lives of wierdness, and violence but accomplishing hopeful expectations.
Right on , but it seems inmost places today those values went the way of the DoDo, now it's headboppin , rapcrap , torch a neighbourhood and loot , in the name of only some lives matter. News alert , All Lives Matter.
I like this channel because even BET do not show this much positive classic films
👍I love how the family philosophy was that the money belonged to all of them so they all had a say in how the money was saved and spent. 💞
Loving Atlanta- Well said and insightful of you to recognize that value👍👌
Point here is they shared the hard work which earned the the right to have a say
In Indianapolis a young black male...killed 5 family members because he wanted his part of the stimulus package. The youngest family member killed was seven. Thats today's family values in the city. Disgusting.
@@williamhelm6632 - 👍💝
@@tombob671 - True 💝
This is one of the best videos I have ever watched. I got teary when they got the saw and then again when Mama got her sewing machine, when she clapped her hands with joy.
Can we please buy Mother Hunter a sewing machine.
I teared up when the father handed out the sandwiches to the others before eating one himself.
Great movie and values. Wish families today could learn to work together like this today.
Actually the best movie I've ever seen on many levels, We all need to get back to this mentally today in 2019-2020 & beyond.
Absolutely
What's stopping you?
I agree
. . . . . . Is there any way to go back to the good old days? I'm missing those days so very much. Reelblack One, blessings!🙏💪🧡
Excellent film about a strong African-American family working together as a team to make their daily work life easier by getting a power saw to save time working. They saved their small change and put it together to buy something that benefit the entire family. Every family should watch this film to see what they can achieve together as a family if they stick together and be a family.
Absolutely. Stop the I am privileged. I was raised this way. My Dad said nobody can help you like you can YOURSELF!!
And look at the inner city blacks today.
@@ashleyvalentine2790 I was also raised this way, im white.
I'm Mexican and I worked so hard in my childhood but i know the black people had it toughest so I give them credit and respect and thank you so much for this upload I really enjoyed it I was so happy for mama for her sewing machine
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@Urban Youth oh shut up. He gave acknowledgment, nothing more, than less. Why are you even here if you feel this type of wickedness?!?!?
@Urban Youth Your ignorance and arrogance are astounding...
@@Ldr11 Know that Urban is likely Suburban....Or Asian.
None of us owe anyone hard work, we do it for the ones that we love. Remember that Black Americans are an amalgamation of various tribes of tribes that formed into one. We share ancestry with many other ethnic groups within the Americas. #AmericanFreedmen - Stay blessed
This is exactly how I want to live. With a beautiful hard working family
Amen Dee
I’m not sure. I often wonder what would have happened to me during slavery, because even courtesans worked relatively harder then now-a-days.
I agree. Though I was not yet born, looking at this group of men, they WERE hard workers and with a strong work ethic. Proud to see families like this working together.
Me too my dear. You will find that family in a church. Good luck
Or you save yourself for a woman with similar values.
Absolutely loved this movie..
Hard working family! If we in society today only worked HALF this hard and had HALF the discipline and determination they had!
I really appreciate this Family. They are so worthy of the Family of the Year,🥰🥰🥰🥰
Now that’s real living real richness living good good pure food no cell phones family connecting no social media poison love it,I’ll give it all up for this warm simplicity ...lots of love
I wish family's of today were more like that now.
@veronica mills then why your ass on here
while the trees last - the forest gets used up fast, like a brothel
@@stephenhensley5631 ignore these negative comments. It's been my observation that we're living in a generation of advanced technology in communication, yet people still don't know how to communicate nicely or appreciate the days and hard work of yesteryear.
@1:03:42....she took out her cell phone.😄
👍I love how the whole family was committed to saving and I love how they all got dressed up and went in town together to shop etc. 😃
The little boy is my neighbor who is not my grandpa but I call him papa his name Is Jim hunter, great man
Lol I hate when I go to Walmart and people are shopping with three generations of their family in tow 😂.
@@morganmaloney3935 you're so lucky to have such an amazing person as a neighbor. Please tell us what happened to his dad, mom and bro....what's their story?
I'd rather live this way in the forest today than live in any city in the world, of course with some modern conveniences, but in Nature far away from city life!
Gantry Smith
Exactly!!!😁👏🏼
I feel the same way.
I live it everyday and it’s definitely a luxury
Yeah. Live in wild but get that machine. I love how they started with the saw and axe and worked their way up. The heritage of slavery was next in my auto play did u watch that too? A very striking contrast for me it was.
@@stresswun1 not yet but I will.
Thank you so much for posting this educational piece.
I love this. Awesome movie . No racism or bigotry. Just good ole fashion living and HELP when needed. For that time they did come up by working together as a FAMILY and when they needed assistance their neighbors came to their assistance and when they went into the city the community knew and assisted them. Very good movie from the past that we all can learn from today.
Racism was still live and well remember the Jim Crow law they just didn't show it in the film
@@bhhookkick3Exactly. This family was successful in spite of it, but this was the height of it.
Good ol days when family was family. No phones just communication. Sitting at the table with your family not on the phone. Working and doing chores. All this every little detail is appreciated and gold. Sad we dont have that today🙏😪
My dad and granddads ...did this for a living...We called it putt wooden...this is right around time when they did it..Great Vid
Yes, you are right. My father did it for years and those men were taken advantage off. Cut all that wood and didn't make hardly anything.
My father got burn marks on his shoulders.
Pulp wooding
@@rickyevelynsheppard5994 : I am a former truck diver of pulp wood. The trailers are
usually overloaded beyond 80,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight. My last load was 96,000lbs.
@@rickyevelynsheppard5994 : Correction: Truck Driver
What a great inspiring film! If more people would wait and save like this determined family did for what they wanted, people would appreciate what they have.
Amen to that!
I'm Mexican descendent and I worked in heavy labor,, and Yeap African American people are really hard working!!👍
logan wolf
🥰❤️Uuuum, Thank you for acknowledging our plight.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾The history books conveniently left out a few important details. However, that may explain why Black Folk ok constitution is the way it is...❤️
African Americans have always been hard workers!
As a White Parent, I had to Work hard myself. I'm sure many of Us can Relate..
Well, democrat policies helped destroy the black family all intentional. Welfare for votes. But a man MUST NOT be in the household to get your Gov. check. The more kids you have the more money you can get. That crap was all put in place by the democrats. Most people don't know the Democrats started the Jim Crow laws, were for slavery, segregation and started the KKK. And blacks were republicans until Woodrow Wilson connived and convinced them to vote Dem, then he stabbed them in the back and twisted the blade, then he praised the KKK film Death of a Nation. Blacks then again started voting Dem again after FDR started the Civil Conservation Corp program. It was a program that black just happened to benefit from although the program was not put in place for blacks. FDR was a racist but his wife was sympathetic to the black cause. FDR refused to integrate the military during ww2 and wanted to stop the Tuskegee air training program. His wife demanded it stay operational and thus it ended up a success.
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This is the best! How my family lived. The town in the video is Guyton and the paper mill is Weyerhaeuser in Port Wentworth. They where still taken "short wood" at Gilman in St.Marys till 2002.
Good stuff to see. It's a generational message that can be utilized even now
I loved the Irony of this movie. Love how the neighbors pitched in to help put the fire out. All love.
Love ur movies.
A family working together to achieve their dreams. This is what life should be about.
This was really educational.What a hard working family!👍❤
Best movie I've seen in Years! All working for a common good. FAMILY!!
People of non American descent refuse to believe that the infrastructure of the USA was built by Black Americans, Our infrastructure, buildings was not dependent on a person forcing themselves in a Country. This was accomplished by people who were paid No Wages. However, they know their worth in American History. And no one Will ever take that away from them. God Bless Black People who give and gave with their toil, labor and talents. Black folk is a large part of American History🇺🇸,
AMERICA IS GREATED BECAUSE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS.... FREE FORCED LABOR BUILT THIS COUNTRY BY BLACKS....
@Valerie Blount
Certain U are relishing the recent release of the 1619 Project 400 Year Anniversary of Slavery in USA and It's impact on Every Aspect of Wealth ,Development ,Power .
PBS News Hour expose with
NICOLE-JONES is unforgettable....utube
CBS online etc.Impacting
They know they just tefuse to believe
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Destroys the myths ,justification & the DEBTS moral spiritual legal financial /myth of Superiority! The Thirst IS Real more unquenchable Now That many are loosing their minds Self destucting it's sad & not
Because has nothing to do with majority of those Alive today. Abraham was told by God upon arriving in his New Land Canaan that his people would inthe future be overrun
Held in captivity /Enslaved for 400 years. Irony we Via Time Magazine are Honoring
Thru info facts research the August 2019 The Presentation of the 1619 Project!! Marking 400 Year Anniversary of The 20 Afican Slaves Ariiving in Virginia as The Beginning of Slavery in
US as An Institution ,The Role Slaves Slavery 400 yrs of FREE Labor shaped Made possible For this Country to
Become the Wealthiest Most a Powerfull Nation half a Millinea. Founder of 10yr project Nicole Jones of NY Times catch her interview on PBS news hour week ago.breaks 400 yrs an Entire world Economy Emergence of Sustsaing world of
Capitalism via USA impact on Black People/ Working Class Citizens now according
To Socio Econmics multi race
Inclusive. How it still shaping Moral Civil Economic Business Financial Political Legal Social Economic Policy Particularly Anti Blacks & Even Rolling Backwards in recent times.
Lovers Haterd Alike should Read or Listen to the Findings (historical to current
Information) will find it Intriguing. We are a part of living History . Amazing !!!
What will future mankind think of US 2-3, 000 years from Now. With the destruction of Books & written history
VALERIE BLOUNT amen
I loved watching that film. So many lessons to be learned from it.
In my life time was able to experience this in the 80’s. The place was Bogue Chitto and Springfiend Mississippi. Currently my family have a logging company and doing very well....
This was probably one of the best things I've ever seen. It was compelling to the end.
The ending words are something we should all be carrying with us as goals.
They turned $60 a day into $180 a day. That's about $46000 a year. Damn good money in 1952.
Whenever I get tempted by low interest rates on something I can't afford, my wife has me rewatch this. I will continue to save up for things instead of financing them. The point is to make money on my tools, not to pay for them. This film is timeless.
Discipline and determination..i love it.
Yes...and it could not be overstressed.
teeta6794 taylor tell it
This was such a joy to watch. a feel good movie.
Aah, the days when hard work and honest living were justly rewarded
Wow! Nice white people.
this is great info.for the young people to love. themselves about being black
@@chesterhicks9350 Amen to that.
Bravo! SOOOOO Beautiful & Heartfelt, Showing Family Love, in Action! More like these please & Thanks A Million! 💪😄💖👑
This is exactly what family should be like.
Thanks for the return of time. A great family working together in thick&,thin a happy family moving with time into the future people all gone but this film brings them back into our hearts and minds Thanks to everyone for making it a great video top10. We remember them
I’ll be damned. I had tears in my old ass eyes at the end. That little boy reminded me so much of myself. I had an older brother like that too. Unfortunately, he later went into the Marines and was killed in Vietnam. I had a grandma like that as well with a very similar sewing machine. I wonder why there was no mothers/wives even mentioned in the film for any of the families? In any case, this was a great little production and even had some drama in it. That damned truck! It was just jealous of the new machine they were so focused on.
so sorry to hear about your brother so many young guys were destroyed in the war if they made it home they had Shell Shock what they now call PTSD, I saw a guy like that after his tour so sad.
My. Son. Died also. Bad. Water in. Us. Marines. Dead at 34yrs old bad. Añti depressant. Harbor. View. Hosp. Srattke
So sorry for your loss. God bless the 🇺🇸 military! SALUTE TO ALL. GOD BLESS 🙌
What an inspiration for families! Alot to said about the film!
I’m from Mississippi and we had a saying: never pick a fight with a puckwood worker, my grandpa was one and one thing they had in common they had arms the size of Popeyes 😂
I moved to the city in the 1980s and I've told people for years that they haven't lived until they lived on a farm or in a family with love and respect for one another. I believe our work brought us together. I didn't always appreciate the hard work but me and my brother we had The Adventurous time of our lives there is no place I'd rather be than on a farm. I had a good childhood at least up to and until the time I move to City. In the city the quality of life was poor people didn't care for each other the way you saw in that film that's the way people took care of each other and Mississippi everyone was just like that. You felt loved and respected. You didn't go past someone's house and not wave at them, if they have funeral you took food to their homes, if they have fire you helped out or anything but most people were too independent to ask or to beg for anything. And we did everything for ourselves but was there for each other black and white people, just like in this clip. So don't think this is an exaggeration. Everyone respected my dad. Oh closes neighbors were middle class white people. We didn't hang out after work with white folks but we all just like in the clip looked out and had a mutual respect for one another.
I lived in such a time what wonderful people and not to many people are blessed like these I miss those times I was telling my wife today I would like to go back just for a while and have a nice visit
It's what I lived in, but we were enforced to be in modern world.
What a beautiful story of one family who all pitched in to better themselves. This is what makes a family. Working for and with one another with love and respect for one another. A beautiful testimony of a beautiful family.
I love these old filmstrips, full of good memories and especially good morals and family values!
Love my people.....This is our greatness portrayed in this video.
Why aren't MY people included in this film?
@@robertwalker5521 If don’t have the same ethnicity as the people in the vids,
it’s not about..👌🏾
Family values and unity towards a positive goal. Attainment of goal further striving and thriving in peaceful harmony. How can I get back to 1952? please someone, anyone know? Meanwhile Thanks
My grandfather was pink Lindsey he had a logging company in Kansas an Arkansas he died at 105 1995
God bless
Happy for you ,that he was here on this earth for such a long time , what a blessing.
Excellent movie👍👍
I was getting all into it hoping they could get that saw.
Then couldn’t wait for mother to get her sewing machine!!
Really really nice info movie💜🎉👍
Black families praying together, and working together, and saving together... It's a winning combination every time. If only all black families had a father in the household like Mr Hunter, our people would be disciplined and hard working and successful!
I loved this movie; It reminded me of when I was a young school kid and they would sometimes show inspirational movies like this one!...
Thanks for loading the great historical data and movie. When I visited my grandpas & cousins in East Texas. The wood was called "Puck." Wood. I loved the smell of it & would love when my family would drive past the trucks. Thanks for the experience & education. God bless
A wonderful moving movie on the African American Family - all struggling to make ends meet with the whole members of the family working together and bonding - People must remember that ALL HUMAN BEINGS needs are the same, to have work, to be loved and be treated with respect and pursue their goals with dreams of happiness without fear and prejudice from their fellow beings.
Thank you - Norzin Y. Shakabpa
I wish I can go back in time. Life was simple, full of love and family support. Thanks for sharing!
Aint nobody stopping all of the nostalgic from living this way now, but we know the truth of that, don't we, lol. Thanks for posting this, great to see this period material.
Omg I watched the whole thing!.. it was so captivating
I watched this years ago and it got me to where if I bought anything new or anything I did not have use for that I had I would give it away to someone. People always have too much stuff around that they are not using that someone else could really use. You just don't know how that helps people.
We recently sold a lot unwanted things. Brought in about $500! Great thing to do
Man them were the days life was so simple. Hard work family sitting at the dinner table.all eating together going to church together. Man I miss them days. But these are alright also.great family movie.keep them coming.
This was a Wonderful and Powerful show of pride in Ownership and Stewardship of Land Owners.
The beauty of their talents and strength of working and saving money on what you need, not want. After the fire, they were still optomistic about working harder to get what the family decided together. Simply Beautiful.
I love this film so much. I found it last night. Been watching it several times because I LOVE it very much. Bless you and thank you for posting it.
Wow! 5 words.
In sper ra tion al! There is nothing you can't do if there is a genuine strong family bond coupled with mutual respect for each other.
So moving!
Thank you.
If I was Mrs Hunter I'd be lobbing for a washing machine (already got the Philco fridge). That would reduce washing from a likely 3 days a week down to one (eliminate the scrub board).
I know a family in my area who's oldest son bought his mother a wringer/washer with his first paycheck. They had 12 children then and eventually had 16. That woman did laundry on a scrub board 6 days a week! That was reduced to one. Talk about being liberated! This was about 1940, and it wasn't in Georgia, it was Eastern Ontario (good Catholics with a huge family, poor as church mice, but the next generation was very successful, building and renovating houses).
I grew up with people like this, we had a purpose, we had good neighbors.
Hardwork, at night you slept well, the garden, dirty fingernails.
These were good wholesome times,
Men were men and knew their role, also the women, God I wish we could turn back time.
Thank you very much. Tbh I don't watch tv nor have them in my house. Enjoying the videos your bringing❤
Us as well. We got rid of television in 01. This channel is great!
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2005 and hadly watch before that.
This Channel is awesome. Thanks for all the great history you share.
Very meaningful.
Lovely story.
Jo Jo in VT
I love the information your putting on TH-cam so I signed up today. Great job!
Living in Nature the Forest, you can't help but act like you got common sense and figure out how to live.
SekhermAsaru - Well said!!👌👍
When you know that a stupid error could result in a harder job, more lifting and toting, then you think wisely how to do the job quickly, safely and without "killing yerself"!
Thanks for sharing a heart-warming story of a strong black family unit, neighborly love, honest work ethic. This certainly helps to build a sense of self-worth and strong character in black children, especially when mother, father and children work together in an atmosphere of love and respect! This story was so educational and uplifting..... we need to pass it on!
I love old educational films.
The true definition of a family working together toward a goal back in the days when kids were taught values hard work sadly lacking today
*The Hunter* family 'bout to go out there and knock out some of that Georgia pine!
Even today this video speaks volumes.
Wow. Work hard for what you want. Save the money and THEN buy it. People have forgotten
My dad was a logger. He taught me how to load a truck. We went with him in the woods, to cut trees for home, sometimes. Only difference, he had modern tools.
Just goes to show how working together for one common goal can change not only your life but the lives of everybody close to you.
We have FALLEN manipulated by LIES. This was excellent
So right brotha...😔🙏
You proudly speak truth✨🎶💫🔥 truth.. there has been over a million -trillion devious lies...falsehoods and misrepresentation on purpose....
The so called power structure and their assorted rage a muffins.. made sport of our misery for hundreds of years..,🧐😣.. and yet as Beloved Dr Angelou said ‘ And still I rise’💫
We are truly an amazing spiritually acute brilliant group!! Set behind jealous cruel enemy lines..’..
But their unbelievably wicked time is done...
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Peace fam🎶🌹🔥
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This film has me missing my grandmother! What a wonderful film!
My husband was a man(Child)of the forest which led to stage 4 prostate cancer over the years.He died in pain August 14,2019 in Virginia.Brutal work for an 8 yr old.
Dam good heritage show that family didn't give up they dug deep within that's called sticking together an I loved looking at mother face when she got her sewing machine ❤️ hard work back then but good friends an good people made it easy. Love it
wow this brought tears to my eye am so proud of them.. just love it
really enjoyed this amazing movie. it soothed my soul on a calm Friday evening in London.
Before my time love the movie and the powerful messages.📽
All things ARE Possible. Aka Determination.✊🏾
Thanks for sharing Reelblack.👍🏼
Be safe Everyone 🌏😷
I grew up like this, I have many things now, but I realize I had a lot then and didn't know until late In life. Fresh grown food every day, well water that was cold from the ground, which was the best well we thought. I would love to take a walk in the woods picking black berries, wild plums which was so sweet, and sweet wild strawberries, and Black Wild muscadines, these properties were share cropped by the owners, but we could go on many others properties hunting, or picking fruits or vegetables no one told us to get off! Great memories in a subjugated south in American history in Georgia, yes I drank out black fountains, got out of line for white folk "Yalsum" and "nal sar" was polite. That was then, this is now yes ma'am and no sir haha.
You are right. Mother Nature was good back then. You could easily find black berries, and plum's, even on the side of the roads. Now days you can rarely find them anywhere.
Hello, you didn't see such signs in this video because it wasn't filmed in Georgia, USA but in Georgia of Europe. Thats why they were land owners and not share croppers.
You are right, im watching this and I feel that the family had a lot, people today may thinks its nothing. I was born in 1980 in GA so things in my time have been quite different. But watching this I know the family in this video was blessed to have the food, a truck, a well to get fresh water, family and etc.
same thing i used to live by my grand paren on st eustatia, back in the mid sixties, we had an generator for corrent n a well with rain water , did not rely on governament support, we had a shop. n few chickens , bake our own bread, order good from the us for the store , really good independant life,
Your life sounds so much like mine growing up in a small Georgia town.Those were the best day's of my life looking back.
The best I have ever seen in years!!!
I love it, working together as a family and sacrificing to achieve a better life❤️
WOW! I love this channel shows awesome black history and content.
The movie was shot in Effingham County in 1952 by the United States Information Agency. The 1952 film featured members of the Hunter and Reese families of the Guyton area...
The original black and white film focused on the work ethics and value system that existed with Kent’s great-grandfathers, Lewis Hunter and Terling Reese. The new film includes excerpts from the original along with on-camera interviews with surviving film participant James Hunter. He was 12 years old at the time of filming and is now 78.
The original film, "Men of the Forest," can be seen on TH-cam.
The original participants in the film had never seen it until it was "rediscovered" last year by a family member. The film captured the families working in the pulpwood industry, supplying wood to Union Camp in Savannah.
Remington Kent's parents, David and Eleanor Kent, proved to be a lot of help in getting this film made. They provided historical and anecdotal information about their great grandfathers.
What a beautiful family, give praise to Jesus and hard honest work will prosper you and fill you with love!
This video did not need any words. The Music would do. This a nice wholesome American History excerpt. People not of the Homeland might not understand. However, a American born and bred in the USA would enjoy this unadulterated piece of history. You want get this in the news and the computer age media😞
The dad reminds me of my grandfather. I feel so much pride watching this as it reminds me of the men from my small hometown in Alabama southeast of Montgomery called Union springs
Documentaries of this bygone era convey maturity and understanding. They seem more grown-up than today's hyped-up videos, teaching and entertainment.
@@normandparent7160 Thank you for your kind thought.
@@normandparent7160 Great channel, nice viewers. What's not to like? Cheers.
Such a good story of close family helping each other...The narration is easy on the ears
Kids today don’t know nothing about hard work!
I totally agree. Parents are too busy spoiling their kids, so how could the kids possibly be expected to have any sort of work ethic?
Lisa Gamble
I feel for kids that think they are skating out. I have always held an awe for young people that is willing to work hard. Even though they can subliminally use the excuse that they are too young. I use to be inspired as a young child to see these kids my age, work that hard. I took a look at myself. Young people need to watch more of these types of films instead of N🧐🙂🚩😄Fl🔥x.
My kids do !
I was so happy running across this Video.. Simply because my grandfather was a sharecropper here in GA. I never got to meet him because he has long passed away before I was born.. I often try to imagine how he looked and what his full days of farming was like.. How he dressed. what they ate.. This movie kind of give me some sort of idea of all that.. So, I am very thankful.. My Mother , his daughter was born 1944. so this would have put here at the age of 8rs old..but my uncles and aunts wre much older. Pine Mountain GA..
What a great film. It was so humbling. 👏