WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 1004

Title: Interview with Vera Ellis

Medium: Audio; Moving Image

Original Medium: Film; Recorded Sound; Video

Date: 31 Jan 1993 (Created)

Original Summary:

Interview with Vera Ellis conducted for The Great Depression. Discussion centers on life in a sharecropper family and the early days of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 10 min 11 sec

Genres: Interview

Subjects: Sharecropping; Labor movement--United States--History--20th century; Sharecroppers; Marked Tree (Ark.)

Name As Subjects: Ellis, Vera; Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Production Company	Blackside, Inc.
	Interviewee	Ellis, Vera

Notes:

Subject : Vera Ellis
Used in Episode Number : 315

Reference Materials ^x2

	Video
	Transcript

Items ^x3

	Item	Description
	1004-2	Audio Tape : 1/4" Audio Tape
	1004-3	Video Tape : U-matic
	1004-5	Digital : Video/mpeg

Component Contents ^x3

	Item	Description
	14622-1-1004-2	Safety Film : Original negative
	14622-2-1004-2	Video Tape : BetacamSP
	14622-3-1004-2	Digital : Video/dvcpro 50

Contained By ^x2

	Title No	Title
	7596	The Great Depression [interviews]
	14622	Not for public viewing

Related Works ^x2

	Type	Title No	Title
		31	The Great Depression
		36	Mean things happening