Marie Cirillo Video Collection
Scope and Contents
Forty-six (46) open reel videos documenting residents of former coal mining communities in Campbell County and Claiborne County, Tennessee. The bulk of the videos are uneditied raw footage recording the creation of Appalachian folk art, crafts and music, as well as Marie Cirillo's engagement with the communities' efforts to establish health care clinics and local economic development.
Following an oral history project conducted by Marie Cirillo and Maureen O'Connell in 1972, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant was awarded to continue similar work with the burgeoning medium of video. Five students, including William R. (Bill) Wilburn assisted Cirillo and O'Connell in shooting the videos. Community members also used the portable video equipment.
Dates
- 1973-1976
Creator
- Cirillo, Marie , 1929- (Person)
- O'Connell, Maureen (Person)
- Wilburn , William R. (Person)
Extent
46 open reel videotape : Forty-six (46) 1/2-inch black and white monaural EIAJ-1 videotape on 5-inch reel
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital transfer available for vieiwng on-site at TAMIS, on hard rive "Marie Cirillo Collection". Back-up drive at Knox County Records Management Office, Central St. Digital transfers also at Clearfork Community Institute.
- Agriculture Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bluegrass music. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Claiborne County (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Coal Mining Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Community health services. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Country Music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk art--Appalachian Region, Southern. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk art--Tennessee. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk art. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk music. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Health services accessibility--Southern States. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Old-time music. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Public health Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Public health--Tennessee. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Quilting--Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Quilts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rural health services--Tennessee. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rural-urban migration--United States. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- -Handwritten notes and summaries accompanying six tapes, presumably written by Marie Cirillo or Maureen O'Conell at the time the tapes were recorded. Notes from an interview with Marie Cirillo conducted by volunteers Erin Bicknese and Morgan Pennington the the summer of 2019 as Cirillo viewed the tapes.
Repository Details
Part of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound Repository
