Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
★ 6.4 (10) · 42 min
Director: Zora Neale Hurston · woman
Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".