In 2008 the Appalshop Archive received the donation of a 1938 16mm silent b/w film documenting the CCC camp in Pine Mountain State Park near the coal mining community of Pineville, KY. It was made by Park superintendent and CCC supervisor Carl Zody. Camp SP-10 men are seen constructing roads and bridges, operating vehicles, and cutting native sandstone for the Laurel Cove amphitheater (which is still a local landmark central to the town’s annual Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival). The at-risk film is the most extensive known moving image materials of CCC activity in Pineville. It is also unique in that it was made by a Park employee rather than by the U.S. Department of the Interior, whose films were intended to promote the program to the public.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 04:05:49 +0000
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