Member Review Life in old Louisiana

[gary]

1941 Univ of Arizona film that purportedly depicts 1830 antebellum life in Louisiana. It opens with a paddlesteamer steaming down the Mississippi.

Of course it shows a Creole plantation owner's family with their household of slaves and fieldhands. There's even a recreation of a duel and of a slave auction. No depiction of the rif-raffs that surely swarmed at the dwarfs.

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[MAJOR DUNDEE]

The auction is holded in French and English (the "french" use "Piastres" ? what is that ? Piastres were used in french Indochina until 1955...).
The 15 first seconds seems incredibly modern, when you think of the rest of the world at that time.