"LIFE IN OLD LOUISIANA " 1941 EDUCATIONAL FILM NEW ORLEANS 97404

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Produced in 1941, "Life in Old Louisiana" was created by Erpi Classroom Films, Inc. in collaboration with James Fortier, the archivist of New Orleans. The film purports to show the history of 1830-1950, and starts with images of a steam boat traveling on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. A northerner interacts with a creole man name Dornier on board the ship who describes life in the deep South. At 1:40, an above-ground plantation home is shown and at 1:52 the fields, which are being worked by slaves. At 2:21 more palatial plantation houses are shown. At 2:37 slaves are shown harvesting sugar cane. At 3:04, another view of the steam boat. At 3:12, the French Quarter in New Orleans is shown. At 3:25 slaves clean the flagstones of the courtyard and domestic staff prepares for the arrival of the Dornier family. At 4:00, the family visits church and then arrives back at the family home at 4:27 for a high tea / coffee. At 4:52 one of the daughters is shown practicing the harp, while the other children take English lessons from a governess. At 4:58, men fight a duel to settle a dispute. At 6:30, the slave market is shown and an auction of slaves is conducted. At 7:08, the New Orleans city hall is shown. At 7:22, a cemetery with above ground tombs is shown. At 7:42, the northerner joins the Dornier family for dinner. At 8:51 a maid sets up the bed for Marie, the family's daughter. At 9:22 a servant and chaperone accompany Marie and her beau on a date. The film ends with images of the prosperous region with its vast fertile lands, and the mighty river that ensures its growth for decades to come.
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[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Doesn't look like an educational film from 1941 at all. More likely a film with Hollywood overtones, with a touch of fantasy and social engineering.

[@kennethfox1586]

They kneel reverently in prayer? While they have black slaves? Thougt that all men were created equal

[@michaeldavidfigures9842]

"All men are created equal." is a quote from The Declaration of Independence. It has nothing to do with The Bible, Christianity, or religion for that matter.

[@ebinrock]

Bad acting ha ha!

[@LabeaudLLC]

This is a propaganda video I’m sure. The French were not happy to be Americans from my research.

[@markreeter6227]

This film approved by Huey Long.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

There doesn't seem to be any effort to gloss over slavery in this short film.

[@georgeclapenstein7823]

Why? Its a part of our history no matter if we like it or not. Its only been this way for a couple thousand years before the 1830s.

[@davidbain701]

"Buying slaves" We just do it with a more righteous belief that we are serving ,the greater good If you want to employ someone you get a trial period ( Government subsidized) And if you can see that you can make good money from them ,you pay a purchase fee ( around a few thousand) Everything continues just under a new light numbing acceptist pacification

[@lukejette]

So.....work?

[@ckvon9644]

Look up "sharecropping".

[@hiker64]

Jim Crow was still alive and thriving when this was made, a few years before the start of the Civil Rights movement. Textbooks, up into the 1960s merely mentioned Slavery as a footnote part of history, accepted and vital to the economy of the Americas. It wasn't until a decade later when challenges to this Lost Cause were finally made so that 'wrongs' could start to be 'righted.' I always wonder when I see black people in these kinds of films what they are thinking when asked or told to be a part of them. A few of the people in these films are old enough that they might be ex-slaves or at least children of slaves.

[@LeGrosB]

I grew up in south Louisiana in the 1960s and 70s, and there were essentially two kinds of people in the world, Nous, les francais and everyone else, les américains.

[@jameslanclos568]

The French accents are atrocious in this film, they don't come close to the "Cajun" French accents either. They're killin' it all right.

[@bjmccann1]

The accents are certainly off, but these people aren't Cajuns.

[@jameslanclos568]

@@bjmccann1 You might be right. One thing that I do know is that I'm 100% Cajun. My Grandparents on both sides were French and the French language was their first language. Although they learned English from their children, they weren't as fluent as their French.

[@efratkin]

Absolutely disgusting.

[@mike89128]

Highly Recommend "Gumbo Ya Ya" by Lyle Saxon, et al. A history of New Orleans from the WPA Writers Project 1945.

[@lalouisianecreole4883]

Lyle Saxon is Amazing One of my Favorite New Orleans Authors, Fabulous New Orleans and Old Louisiana are also Reccomend And give Harnett t kane a try as well as Grace King and George Cable

[@thebasisti2482]

2:17 Braithwaite Manor :D

[@lalouisianecreole4883]

If the uploader of the video would be so kind or anyone In the matter be so helpful to help guide me to a DVD version of this Film, I'm a Southern/New Orleans Historian and collector but I'm finding it difficult to obtain information on this documentary.⚜🇫🇷🇺🇸

[@lalouisianecreole4883]

@Blair Aquilia thank you very much for the information Is this by any chance available on any website, It's important to note how African Americans were portrayed before the Civil rights movement

[@PeriscopeFilm]

We don't sell DVDs but you can watch for free on KZbin.

[@michaelbarrett3270]

We are all One Blood in Christ. Respect History.

[@TheRobinsons88]

This is not Louisiana in 1941🤦🏿

[@nelsonde]

They quote "all men are created equal" and buy slaves. Can anyone say cognitive dissonance?

[@scottgoodman8993]

It was not until after the civil war that blacks were considered equal to white men and even then only by some academics and liberals.

[@paulikutsa]

I was about to comment the same, it s kinda "double standards"

[@markwilliford4567]

My next door neighbors, and many of my friends in my Texas boarder town were Cajuns. My mother was a Sicilian - 1st Generation American. They would speak French. They were God fearing and hard working. My mother and my neighbors would always say that they may have European Heritage but were Americans First!

[@victoriariley7490]

That’s what Native Americans say too!😊

[@ВатнаяфабрикаимениКрасныхпарти]

Режиссура, монтаж и актёрская игра заслуживают всех "Оскаров" киноакадемии. Плюшевые цилиндры зачётные!

[@Izumi-sp6fp]

This is probably going to be removed by You Tube

[@lukejette]

Get back to the comment fields boy!

[@jimboisvert5781]

Luke Jette 🤣

[@skydiverclassc2031]

And here it is in July 2020

[@jsEMCsquared]

Devoted slave that is

[@thebasisti2482]

*Saint Denis*

[@salimamer8716]

Saint denis

[@peterross97]

"Take my family, most speak only french" Actors go on to speak some of the most butchered and atrocious french that's ever assaulted my ears!

[@skydiverclassc2031]

It should be noted that Cajuns and Creoles don't speak classical French. It's been adapted over the centuries to their own dialects, to the point where a French tourist probably won't understand a Louisiana native.

[@peterross97]

@@skydiverclassc2031 That's because they speak a pidgin French. Yet they keep insisting it's "french".

[@josephdunn_louisiane]

1) In first scene on boat, the mother and son are obviously not French speakers. The daughter speaks French perfectly. 2) In the scene in the courtyard, the French of the woman serving coffee is characteristic of POC francophones and créolophones in New Orleans. 3) In the slave market scene, the French of all of the men is perfectly characteristic (and intelligible) of New Orleans French.

[@marchauchler1622]

@@skydiverclassc2031 Unfortunately, the French spoken in the movie is Parisian French which is proably not noticeable if you dont speak the language. However, it is still a great attempt to portray Louisiana's history. At the same time there were lots of German speakers and to some extent Spanish speakers ( Spaniards from the canaries) plus Creoles from the Carribean all leaving their footprint...

[@QUINTUSMAXIMUS]

French spoken in France today is very different from North American French. Canadian French is to some extent an older French with a very different pronunciation.

[@jamestregler1584]

And some of us maintain the old ways in old New Orleans 😇 Alamay Creole !

[@jamesbeckham7046]

Things have changed greatly since that time!😮

[@MexicoAdventurer]

1941! Wow.

[@aznola]

What is she saying in French

[@chenellgilmore6966]

This is very interesting 🤔

[@lasseholling4640]

Hallo Q1c :D

[@nikolaykrotov8673]

Ce bon Old South

[@cammauermusic]

No

[@antoniobranch]

"Ain't that a bitch".

[@MoeWhiskey]

If we could only turn back time👍

[@GrumblingGrognard]

You are a narrow-minded moron.

[@KageMinowara]

@@GrumblingGrognard You are an easily triggered buffoon.

[@jimboisvert5781]

Lol. Way to poke the tiger in the ass bro!😆

[@rollitupmars]

Get a life

[@guadalupeeg5034]

If it's to correct the mistakes, yes!

[@skydiverclassc2031]

Was this film produced by the University of Arizona at Tucson, or was it just found in their library?

[@tomservo56954]

In their library

[@jcksnghst]

What a strange film.

[@SedriqMiers]

i find it stranger that you find it strange.........

[@jcksnghst]

@@SedriqMiers don't get me wrong, I should have said it was an "odd" film. I say that because of the year it was produced (1941) and its care-free manner in which contemporary chattel slavery is depicted in a classroom educational film. Myself being from the deep south I understand the antebellum south but.... I don't know... I guess it's strange to see it dramatized so nonchalantly.

[@ashdallis6701]

i agree!

[@princemoisepicardlefrancai32]

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷...

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

France, Spain and Portugal, England too, all had slaves in America before USA. Caribbean islands, Central & South America are also populated by many descendants of slaves. Where's their Emancipation Proclamation? Or "First Nations" land holdings?

[@skydiverclassc2031]

So, slavery can't be bad if everyone is involved in it. Right.

[@mariotrejos7236]

Slavery was abolished and slaves freed during the independence period in most latín american countries and native comunal lands were assigned since the spanish period

[@skip2265]

@@skydiverclassc2031 WRONG! It is also the multitude of crimes committed within the system, raping of women, men and childern, severe abuse, deprvation, this is beyond working...It is literally overlooking of human treatment, there was no crime these innocent people committed to be put in such a position! I'm ashamed that you are trying to normalize slavery! All people didn't practice slavery the same. This is a disgrace on mankind and the concept of rescue for any of these people is literally contingent upon a bunch of idiots having a wakeup call!

[@skydiverclassc2031]

@@skip2265 I guess you missed the sarcasm in the last word.

[@skip2265]

@@skydiverclassc2031......Gotcha! I think it went over my head because sadly some actually use this response and believe in this narrative without sarcasm! In previous convos's I assumed sarcasm and was actually wrong in my assumption!😅

[@PUAlum]

I imagine such educational films came with suggestions for teachers to discuss important ideas and themes. A good teacher could do a lot with this film! i..e. simply asking a class what they thought of slavery. or what if the other side had won the civil war? Or how did the end of slavery impact the economy in New Orleans?

[@robertellingtom2683]

While I am appalled by what I see on the streets of our cities, this film is almost like some kind of a fairy tale that certainly would never be reality with man's humanity and so I suppose it's no wonder that this country is so awry and so many different ways

[@ИгорьКрылов-э3ж]

Выживает сильнейший...

[@Daledavispratt]

Would they have lived so very well if they had to pay their labor instead of simply paying for their laborers on the auction block? Justice scored a victory when this way of life came tumbling down around their ears.

[@nickv1008]

Dale, history shows many of these slave owners "rolled with the punches", and continued to live the good life, their freed slaves were still as poor. In Florida the plantations are still around, Kingsley Plantation, as well as Magnolia Plantation, many others. It started with Columbus's voyage, and spread like a herpes outbreak.

[@Daledavispratt]

@@nickv1008 "Still as poor"? No, they may have been poor, but they were no longer property to be bought and sold..I think there is a big difference.

[@nickv1008]

@@Daledavispratt with the " Jim crow " laws, and little opportunities, while they may look free, they were slaves to poverty. It took 80 years since the civil war for former slaves to gain some economic freedom, That was destroyed in the 1960s with the new government " welfare slavery" that destroyed families and minority businesses. Today we have a new " educational welfare" plan that puts a new generation into slavery with student loans. The chains may be longer, but the shackles are still there.

[@KageMinowara]

@dale pratt Actually if the Southern plantation owners had adopted the Northern model using of disposable wage labourers they would probably have been much wealthier than they were. Keeping slaves housed, fed and in fit working condition was more expensive than paying a factory worker a pittance and firing them if they became unfit for work.

[@lukejette]

@Kake The Sailor Work?

[@xmamb]

Is this for real?

[@africanelectron751]

A good time!....well excluding the slave trade.

[@roscoefoofoo]

Good Gawwwwd...... This may be how Donald Trump imagines The South, but.....

[@StonesAndSand]

Utterly sickening...

[@kennethramonet5421]

I was disoriented for a minute. I momentarily thought I was watching FOX News. Turns out it was a Sean Hannity dream sequence. But seriously, I really believe a disclaimer should precede this video stating that, although a period artifact, most viewers will find its content objectionable.

[@nickv1008]

No mention of going to Church? Too busy counting their riches. A lot to be learned from the film. 👍

[@nickv1008]

@Willie Wisenheimer I didn't see any crosses ..what happened to the ever present Christian cross? Why didn't the churches of the time have a problem with buying and selling humans? And who actually brought the human cargo on their ships to north and south America? And why would someone pay $600 at auction, wages in those days was probably $1 a week. Hiring day labor would probably be cheaper.( I noticed the father skipped church)

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Hey, the Bible has many mentions of slavery, and not a bad word to say about it. The Bible has no problem with slavery at all. Ephesians 6:5 - "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ." God loves a beaten slave.

[@jagboy69]

@@ClayLoomis1958 You kinda left out the part of being slaves of Christ and to serve him whole heartedly... But I see what you are saying. Slaves were the norm 2000 years ago. Funny how everyone is still slave to SOMETHING in their lives today.... Money, relationships, careers, children and possessions, no one is immune to this.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@@jagboy69 God was around long before Christ came along, and that old boy had no problem with people owning other people. In fact, that Old Testament God had no problem with killing every man, woman, and child on the planet. Well, except for Noah and his family, who slipped God a few shekels behind the tabernacle.

[@jagboy69]

@@ClayLoomis1958 lol... Good thing we don't live under the old law. We'd all be screwed! All the best! :-)

[@jsEMCsquared]

Trump was born a hundred fifty years too late

[@jagboy69]

Oh BS. TRUMP has done more to put the blacks BACK TO WORK than your precious obama. Numbers don't lie.

[@GrumblingGrognard]

@@jagboy69 lol yep, and let me guess; your entire experience in Economics is the single course you passed with a C in High School. Go back and try to find those WMDs...or lost emails...or that trickle down effect as the rest of our nation trys to rebuild after idiots like you have given us Gerrymandering and sold our nation to the corporations with unlimited campaign contributions....oh that was someone ELSE'S fault, right "Good Conservative"?

[@jagboy69]

@@GrumblingGrognard Man you are not going to like Nov this year. 😜

[@KageMinowara]

@@GrumblingGrognard Stop watching CNN.

[@GrumblingGrognard]

@@KageMinowara lol You wish it was that simple. It was not the liberals that sold our political system to the corporations with unlimited funding (CNN is just another corp). Try again. It was not the liberals that just legalized gerrymandering. Try again. It was not the liberals that made the tax rates for capital gains lower than what a single parent on minimum wage pays. You would know that if you bothered to pay attention or do none of those issues matter at all to you?