Product Details

• Directors: Tom Davenport
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1974
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• ASIN: 1888522038
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,952 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The New Yorker , August 5, 1974

...probably the definitive film on the Shaker movement.

Product Description

The Shakers are America's oldest and most successful experiment in communal living. A century ago, nearly 6000 Shaker brothers and sisters lived together in nineteen communities scattered from Maine to Kentucky. This film traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable and influential religious sect through the memories and rich song traditions of the surviving Shakers themselves. It includes performances by the late Eldress Marguerite Frost of Canterbury, NH, and the late Sister R. Mildred Barker, a leading singer of the Shaker community still active at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Directed by Tom Davenport and produced by Davenport Films and the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC, Chapel Hill with Daniel Patterson.

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