| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (37 minutes) : .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
The featured music in this Les Blank film is that of "Bois Sec" (Dry Wood) Ardoin, his sons and Canray Fontenot. Theirs is an older, rural style of Cajun music which Blank uses to weave together incidents in the lives of the Fontenot and Ardoin families. Highlights include a rollicking country Mardi Gras, work in the rice fields, a "men's only" supper, and a hog-butchering party (that follows the hog from the kill to sausage). Like other Blank films, it expresses respect for living life 'simply, lovingly, openly and slowly' |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Film |
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In Process Record |
| Performer |
Black Ardoin, Bois Sec Ardoin, Bud Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, Morris Ardoin |
| Event |
Originally produced by Les Blank Films in 1973 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Music.
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Americans.
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Documentary films.
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Music
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Americans.
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Documentary films.
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Music.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Blank, Les, film director
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Gosling, Maureen, film director
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Ardoin, Black, actor
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Sec Ardoin, Bois, actor
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Ardoin, Bud, actor
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Fontenot, Canray, actor
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Ardoin, Morris, actor
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Les Blank Films (Firm)
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Kanopy (Firm)
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