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Box 30-B

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

West Virginia: Land for Relaxation, 1965

 Item — Box: 30-B, Reel: 589
Scope and Contents

A travel log of West Virginia which shows: historical homes and churches, Black Water Falls at different seasons, mountain scenes in the Fall, hunting skiing, ice- skating, Oglebay Park, the radio-telescope, glassmaking, and coal jewelry.

Dates: 1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Motion Picture Collection

Portrait of a University

 Item — Box: 30-B, Reel: 590
Scope and Contents

Examines the three major functions of a comprehensive, land-grant university-teaching, research, and off-campus education. West Virginia University is the example studied in this film.

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Motion Picture Collection

Wild, Wonderful West Virginia

 Item — Box: 30-B, Reel: 591
Scope and Contents

A film vacation in West Virginia.

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Motion Picture Collection

Kingdom Come School, 1973

 Item — Box: 30-B, Reel: 593
Scope and Contents

A film portrait of one of the remaining one room schoolhouses in Kentucky, where middle-aged teacher Harding Ison teaches 22 students in grades one through eight. " I just kinda let them go freely through the day," says Ison.

Dates: 1973
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Motion Picture Collection

Catfish Man of the Woods, 1974

 Item — Box: 30-B, Reel: 594
Scope and Contents

This film is a portrait of Clarence gray, a fifth generation herb doctor whom people call Catfish Man of the Woods. He sells a miture of roots and herbs called "bitters" for all types of ailments from rheumatism to heart trouble. Catfish comments freely about se, religion, and the way of the woods.

Dates: 1974
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Motion Picture Collection