Product Details

• Actors: the Golden Echoes, the Landis Family, John Landis, Bertha Landis
• Directors: Tom Davenport
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1986
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1888522046
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,757 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Richard Harrington,

There is so much song, laughter, love and genial warmth...that your TV set could very easily overheat.

Product Description

The story of a remarkable African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the film traces the history of the Landis family of Granville County, North Carolina, over the lifetime of its oldest surviving member, 86-year-old Mrs. Bertha M. Landis. Particularly featured are performances by her sons’ gospel quartet The Golden Echoes of such songs as "Troubles of the World," "Going Up to Meet Him," and "The Old Rugged Cross," and family and church performances of "Mighty Close to Heaven," "Come and Let's Go to that Land," and "There's Union up in Heaven."

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

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reflections of the singing stream video, June 6, 2005

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John Mccoy Rogers "John" (Fairbanks, Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Singing Stream [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the best documentaries of a Black family that I have ever seen. This film sheds a lot of light on a family who grew up in a rural area of North Carolina and over came all types of hardships and still managed to keep a smile on their faces and had a great appreciation for life. This video is a must see film. You will be entertained as well as educated.