Taylorsville (N.C.), 1939 (Reel 1)

This film is part of a series of films taken by H. Lee Waters titled Movies of Local People. The series captures residents of small towns across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia between 1936 and 1942.

00:00:54--Boys in swim trunks diving, swimming, and playing in a pond or lake
00:02:57--Young girls in swim caps playing in a pond or lake
00:03:03--Young man demonstrates his scale-model flying airplane, women and children standing in street in front of car
00:03:19--Children, teenagers, and adults watching a baseball game
00:05:29--African American men standing and sitting together watching baseball
00:05:58--Men batting and running the bases, time lapse fixed shot of baseball game, City Wide Game sign
00:06:41--Street scenes of men, women, and children interacting with the camera, shots of storefronts, couple flirting, African American man sitting on stoop, men in barbershop, men and women entering and exiting stores, boy riding scooter, man eating ice cream, boy carrying empty paint cans, boy making faces at cameraman
00:08:57--African American attendant at service station, service station patrons,men and women on street, man carrying goods out of 5 and 10 store, Mary's Beauty Shop, man standing in front of U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration, RC Cola, Shoe Shine 5c, Esso Oil, Coleman's (restaurant), Mary's Beauty Shoppe
00:09:55--Boy on bike riding down sidewalk in front of St. Louis Blues, quick shots of shopkeepers, men and women on street, Building and Loan sign
00:10:30--African American pedestrian, African American truck driver and passenger, African American and white pedestrians,
00:11:09--Women in residential area, children playing on residential street, African American man napping under a tree, white man and African American man talking, McNeil Paper Co., Women walking downtown streets, twin women dancing, boys playing, City Barber Shop, People's Drug Store, African American boy and fire hydrant, young women with bicycles
00:12:54--Men sitting, man and child outside Miller Groceries, signs for Lux, Lifebuoy, Rinso, girl carrying groceries, parents posing with children,
00:13:38--Panning shot of a group of white men in front of warehouse, panning shot of women, man in mask working at warehouse, Afrian American man and boys nearby
00:14:23--Long panning shot of swimming pond, boys diving off high diving boards, reverse shots of boys diving up from water to boards,
00:14:57--Men and women walking on street, African American man and white man walking together
00:15:03--Time lapse shot of sidewalk pedestrian traffic, time lapse reverse shot of some pedestrian traffic, includes automobiles and horse traffic,
00:15:34--Close ups of men looking at camera, children posing, African American men outside of Munday's Drug Store, African American men sitting and smiling at camera
00:16:10--Time lapse shot of street automobile traffic, Ford car approaches and stops immediately in front of camera, centered on Ford Logo
00:16:25--Newsboy for Grit, boys serving lemonade, street scenes of men and women, African American boy smiling and doffing his hat, older white men gathered outisde store, mothers and babies, Western Union, People's Drugs, African American boy with piglet, African American man smoking cigarette with his nose
00:17:51--Men and women playing in a band on street, low shot of man and child, audience gathered around band on street,
00:18:30--Crowd gathered around black car that has run off road into a building or large road sign, festive atmosphere, people pose next to car until it is pulled free by a tow truck
00:19:00--Baby in stroller, boys eating watermelon, time lapse shot of boys eating watermelon then roughhousing
00:19:29--Line of fuel and gasoline trucks, Roadio Oil Co., Rexall Drugs, men standing nearby waiting
00:19:49--Panning shot of Smithey's Department Stores sign, shot of fabric counter, men sorting shirts, watermelons, cabbage, corn, tomatoes, lemons, eggplant, cucumbers, refrigerated butcher case, employees and customers at lunch counter, African American man carrying two halves of enormous watermelon
00:21:31--Two young women dancing together, man and woman dancing different dance steps
00:22:03--Exterior shot, women and girls on rocking chairs, men and women walking down street, police officer smiling at camera, Honest Snuff, African American mother and children, man crank-starting automobile, pedestrians on sreet, men riding in three-wheeled car with Harley-Davidson sign
00:23:14--Street scene, women in front of Dr. Asa Thurston office, time lapse shot overlooking city street with cars and pedestrians
00:23:31--Overhead shot of African American man and group of white men in a circle talking (sped up), African American man and white men laughing and joking in front of store, scenes of children on grass, laughing and joking, Chevrolet sign
00:24:26--Crowded street scenes, some shots sped up