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Vermont People: 1970s Documentaries about Vermont Life
Herb Di Gioia and David Hancock were key figures in the tradition of observational cinema, in the early 1970s Di Gioia and Hancock completed a series of films in this style called Vermont People, which documented life in rural Vermont, exploring aspects of the working class.
Video has Closed Captions
S22 Ep8 | 53m 51s | Peter Murray (1975) profiles a traditional furniture maker in Charleston, Vermont. (53m 51s)
Vermont People: Chester Grimes
Video has Closed Captions
S22 Ep9 | 32m 2s | A 1971 story of a 70-year-old logger in northern Vermont still working with his team of horses. (32m 2s)
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