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All my babies : a midwife's own story

Call Number

  • DVD 618.20233 A4165 (CEN)

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Edition

Full screen version.

Publication Information

Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2007.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p.)

Audience

Rating: Not rated; "Prospective viewers are advised that All My Babies includes detailed and graphic coverage of an actual home childbirth"--Container.

Summary

The story of Miss Mary Coley, an African-American midwife more than half a century ago in rural Georgia.

Notes

This film was selected in 2002 by the Library of Congress for permanent preservation in the National Film Registry.

Includes Palmour Street (1949), a dramatized open-ended 25-minute discussion of family relations, a film which Stoney directed on location in Gainsville, Georgia, for the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Contents

  • All my babies : a midewife's own story
  • Palmour Street (a study in family life)

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