Men of the Forest (1952) | African-American Logging Family in Georgia

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  • @myownname5495
    @myownname5495 5 років тому +233

    Believe it or not I grew up in the1970s this way. We lived on a farm in Mississippi. Every summer we had a big garden, chickens, pigs, turkeys and ducks on the yard. Also a pond where we caught craw dad's and rivers where we caught big giant catfish and other fish. We had a fireplace and a big yard full of firewood my dad and brothers cut. My dad worked 6 days a week and my beautiful stepmom was a stay at home mom who got up at 6:30 every morning and made homemade biscuit's (no pancakes) with rice bacon sandwich eggs for breakfast. She washed clothes on ringer washer every other day, sewed every day and we always came home from school to a hot meal ready to eat every day. She made all our bed covers spreads and blankets. There was13 of us and the house was spotless.We never had a rat or roach . My dad was the same way she packed his lunch and water jug and Mason jar of tea every day. He went to work everyday and on the weekends made sure the grass was cut cars were worked on oil was changed and tuned up. We never had broken or busted anything if we did he and my brothers fixed it. Although he cut the big lots with a chain saw he still chopped logs or split them with an ax or used the one or two hand saw with my brothers. Funny how I just thought he liked wearing overalls. :) He hunted rabbits squirrel and pigeon. No possems or racoons or any thing like that)and sat fishing lines in the Tallahatchie river. At the onset of winter he would slaughter a pig and salt the ham hang in my the smoke house. slice the bacon and grind the sausage.Start a fire under the big black pot in the yard for my mom and she would make crackling or rather late for cooking. And lots of lard came from the cracklings. And of course she cleaned the chittlings. I had fun living on the farm we had peach trees, plum trees, peacan and walnut trees black berries persimoms and a host of other fruits growing most of you have probably never heard of growing on our farm. We had adventurous minds as children made our own cars and even play houses, lots of rolling hills and plenty green grass and a horse that was never used for labor only fun to ride

    • @courtneywinters670
      @courtneywinters670 4 роки тому +23

      WOW!!! Good Living Indeed.....

    • @boomshakalaka1557
      @boomshakalaka1557 4 роки тому +41

      You should write a book.😏 I enjoyed reading that.

    • @Daiseehead
      @Daiseehead 4 роки тому +27

      I enjoyed reading this as well 🙂

    • @diodio9494
      @diodio9494 3 роки тому +17

      🖤🖤🖤🖤 how i wish i could have lived like that fully. I caught the tail end of it im a 80s baby and the little bit i experienced i truly do miss.

    • @mz.superior3014
      @mz.superior3014 3 роки тому +10

      I was thinking the same thing ...this needs to be a book.

  • @islandgirl9479
    @islandgirl9479 5 років тому +24

    I will never forget when my mother got her first sewing machine.
    She sewed all our clothes 9 kids.
    She sewed for neighbors and friends and made enough money to finally buy us shoes.
    Those were the days🤗

  • @jimdandy1949
    @jimdandy1949 5 років тому +316

    A strong black family is priceless.

    • @sassycappie4926
      @sassycappie4926 5 років тому +15

      So true! And in spite of what white media would have you believe, is STILL very prevalent and strong.

    • @MrCJ-qz9dl
      @MrCJ-qz9dl 5 років тому +3

      Amen & Amen to that.😄

    • @Clyde.artwork
      @Clyde.artwork 5 років тому +15

      And a black father that sticks around is rare

    • @rjohnson7416
      @rjohnson7416 5 років тому +1

      black bitches fucked that up

    • @nuknuknuk111
      @nuknuknuk111 5 років тому +3

      @@sassycappie4926 thank you

  • @margaretnewton6409
    @margaretnewton6409 3 роки тому +39

    What poor black families accomplished merely loving and helping each other is heartwarming. Although his neighbors had advanced in their production, there was no indication in the film of envy, or jealousy, only support, cooperation, encouragement, thankfulness. The old folks have always said working hard, perseverance, and kindness triumps over insummountable odds. Thank you for posting, a film about Black folks not exhibiting lives of wierdness, and violence but accomplishing hopeful expectations.

    • @trevorplows7494
      @trevorplows7494 11 місяців тому +1

      Right on , but it seems inmost places today those values went the way of the DoDo, now it's headboppin , rapcrap , torch a neighbourhood and loot , in the name of only some lives matter. News alert , All Lives Matter.

  • @lovinglife5572
    @lovinglife5572 5 років тому +77

    I'm Mexican and I worked so hard in my childhood but i know the black people had it toughest so I give them credit and respect and thank you so much for this upload I really enjoyed it I was so happy for mama for her sewing machine

    • @loomason5929
      @loomason5929 4 роки тому +1

      No comment

    • @Ldr11
      @Ldr11 2 роки тому +11

      @Urban Youth oh shut up. He gave acknowledgment, nothing more, than less. Why are you even here if you feel this type of wickedness?!?!?

    • @ChamberedMaiden
      @ChamberedMaiden Рік тому

      @Urban Youth Your ignorance and arrogance are astounding...

    • @ChamberedMaiden
      @ChamberedMaiden Рік тому +2

      @@Ldr11 Know that Urban is likely Suburban....Or Asian.

    • @SageMagnoliaCinema
      @SageMagnoliaCinema 3 місяці тому

      None of us owe anyone hard work, we do it for the ones that we love. Remember that Black Americans are an amalgamation of various tribes of tribes that formed into one. We share ancestry with many other ethnic groups within the Americas. #AmericanFreedmen - Stay blessed

  • @collinhenry9996
    @collinhenry9996 4 роки тому +15

    I like this channel because even BET do not show this much positive classic films

  • @gammm1
    @gammm1 5 років тому +69

    Actually the best movie I've ever seen on many levels, We all need to get back to this mentally today in 2019-2020 & beyond.

  • @antoinetteconley5149
    @antoinetteconley5149 5 років тому +59

    Excellent film about a strong African-American family working together as a team to make their daily work life easier by getting a power saw to save time working. They saved their small change and put it together to buy something that benefit the entire family. Every family should watch this film to see what they can achieve together as a family if they stick together and be a family.

    • @ashleyvalentine2790
      @ashleyvalentine2790 2 роки тому +3

      Absolutely. Stop the I am privileged. I was raised this way. My Dad said nobody can help you like you can YOURSELF!!

    • @earlwright9715
      @earlwright9715 Рік тому

      And look at the inner city blacks today.

    • @earlwright9715
      @earlwright9715 Рік тому

      ​@@ashleyvalentine2790 I was also raised this way, im white.

  • @veronicamills5417
    @veronicamills5417 5 років тому +85

    Now that’s real living real richness living good good pure food no cell phones family connecting no social media poison love it,I’ll give it all up for this warm simplicity ...lots of love

    • @stephenhensley5631
      @stephenhensley5631 5 років тому +3

      I wish family's of today were more like that now.

    • @assmithful1491
      @assmithful1491 5 років тому +3

      @veronica mills then why your ass on here

    • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
      @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 5 років тому

      while the trees last - the forest gets used up fast, like a brothel

    • @MrCJ-qz9dl
      @MrCJ-qz9dl 5 років тому +9

      @@stephenhensley5631 ignore these negative comments. It's been my observation that we're living in a generation of advanced technology in communication, yet people still don't know how to communicate nicely or appreciate the days and hard work of yesteryear.

    • @MrCJ-qz9dl
      @MrCJ-qz9dl 5 років тому

      @1:03:42....she took out her cell phone.😄

  • @carolesmith4864
    @carolesmith4864 4 роки тому +30

    This is one of the best videos I have ever watched. I got teary when they got the saw and then again when Mama got her sewing machine, when she clapped her hands with joy.

    • @mdarrenu
      @mdarrenu 6 місяців тому

      Can we please buy Mother Hunter a sewing machine.

    • @warrenny
      @warrenny 3 місяці тому

      I teared up when the father handed out the sandwiches to the others before eating one himself.

  • @johncausey5344
    @johncausey5344 4 роки тому +18

    Absolutely loved this movie..
    Hard working family! If we in society today only worked HALF this hard and had HALF the discipline and determination they had!

  • @bigvalley4987
    @bigvalley4987 5 років тому +268

    People of non American descent refuse to believe that the infrastructure of the USA was built by Black Americans, Our infrastructure, buildings was not dependent on a person forcing themselves in a Country. This was accomplished by people who were paid No Wages. However, they know their worth in American History. And no one Will ever take that away from them. God Bless Black People who give and gave with their toil, labor and talents. Black folk is a large part of American History🇺🇸,

    • @XxxclusiveReviews
      @XxxclusiveReviews 5 років тому +33

      AMERICA IS GREATED BECAUSE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS.... FREE FORCED LABOR BUILT THIS COUNTRY BY BLACKS....

    • @morsecode9787
      @morsecode9787 5 років тому +8

      @Valerie Blount
      Certain U are relishing the recent release of the 1619 Project 400 Year Anniversary of Slavery in USA and It's impact on Every Aspect of Wealth ,Development ,Power .
      PBS News Hour expose with
      NICOLE-JONES is unforgettable....utube
      CBS online etc.Impacting

    •  5 років тому +7

      They know they just tefuse to believe

    • @morsecode9787
      @morsecode9787 5 років тому +6

      @@ refuse to acknowledge or Admit IT!!
      Destroys the myths ,justification & the DEBTS moral spiritual legal financial /myth of Superiority! The Thirst IS Real more unquenchable Now That many are loosing their minds Self destucting it's sad & not
      Because has nothing to do with majority of those Alive today. Abraham was told by God upon arriving in his New Land Canaan that his people would inthe future be overrun
      Held in captivity /Enslaved for 400 years. Irony we Via Time Magazine are Honoring
      Thru info facts research the August 2019 The Presentation of the 1619 Project!! Marking 400 Year Anniversary of The 20 Afican Slaves Ariiving in Virginia as The Beginning of Slavery in
      US as An Institution ,The Role Slaves Slavery 400 yrs of FREE Labor shaped Made possible For this Country to
      Become the Wealthiest Most a Powerfull Nation half a Millinea. Founder of 10yr project Nicole Jones of NY Times catch her interview on PBS news hour week ago.breaks 400 yrs an Entire world Economy Emergence of Sustsaing world of
      Capitalism via USA impact on Black People/ Working Class Citizens now according
      To Socio Econmics multi race
      Inclusive. How it still shaping Moral Civil Economic Business Financial Political Legal Social Economic Policy Particularly Anti Blacks & Even Rolling Backwards in recent times.
      Lovers Haterd Alike should Read or Listen to the Findings (historical to current
      Information) will find it Intriguing. We are a part of living History . Amazing !!!
      What will future mankind think of US 2-3, 000 years from Now. With the destruction of Books & written history

    • @thewoods9359
      @thewoods9359 5 років тому +5

      VALERIE BLOUNT amen

  • @LovingAtlanta
    @LovingAtlanta 5 років тому +131

    👍I love how the family philosophy was that the money belonged to all of them so they all had a say in how the money was saved and spent. 💞

    • @williamhelm6632
      @williamhelm6632 5 років тому +3

      Loving Atlanta- Well said and insightful of you to recognize that value👍👌

    • @tombob671
      @tombob671 5 років тому +7

      Point here is they shared the hard work which earned the the right to have a say

    • @forsterl.stewart414
      @forsterl.stewart414 3 роки тому +2

      In Indianapolis a young black male...killed 5 family members because he wanted his part of the stimulus package. The youngest family member killed was seven. Thats today's family values in the city. Disgusting.

    • @LovingAtlanta
      @LovingAtlanta 3 роки тому +1

      @@williamhelm6632 - 👍💝

    • @LovingAtlanta
      @LovingAtlanta 3 роки тому +1

      @@tombob671 - True 💝

  • @getmoney101ify
    @getmoney101ify 5 років тому +88

    This is exactly how I want to live. With a beautiful hard working family

    • @jamalgadson2541
      @jamalgadson2541 4 роки тому +5

      Amen Dee

    • @tjackson1953
      @tjackson1953 4 роки тому +1

      I’m not sure. I often wonder what would have happened to me during slavery, because even courtesans worked relatively harder then now-a-days.

    • @septiawoman2911
      @septiawoman2911 3 роки тому +6

      I agree. Though I was not yet born, looking at this group of men, they WERE hard workers and with a strong work ethic. Proud to see families like this working together.

    • @kellysims5732
      @kellysims5732 3 роки тому +2

      Me too my dear. You will find that family in a church. Good luck

    • @kellysims5732
      @kellysims5732 3 роки тому +3

      Or you save yourself for a woman with similar values.

  • @joylynne8
    @joylynne8 5 років тому +110

    Thank you so much for posting this educational piece.

  • @loganwolf228
    @loganwolf228 6 років тому +211

    I'm Mexican descendent and I worked in heavy labor,, and Yeap African American people are really hard working!!👍

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 5 років тому +21

      logan wolf
      🥰❤️Uuuum, Thank you for acknowledging our plight.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾The history books conveniently left out a few important details. However, that may explain why Black Folk ok constitution is the way it is...❤️

    • @topazrichmond7426
      @topazrichmond7426 5 років тому +23

      African Americans have always been hard workers!

    • @willking1625
      @willking1625 5 років тому +5

      As a White Parent, I had to Work hard myself. I'm sure many of Us can Relate..

    • @matrox
      @matrox 5 років тому +12

      Well, democrat policies helped destroy the black family all intentional. Welfare for votes. But a man MUST NOT be in the household to get your Gov. check. The more kids you have the more money you can get. That crap was all put in place by the democrats. Most people don't know the Democrats started the Jim Crow laws, were for slavery, segregation and started the KKK. And blacks were republicans until Woodrow Wilson connived and convinced them to vote Dem, then he stabbed them in the back and twisted the blade, then he praised the KKK film Death of a Nation. Blacks then again started voting Dem again after FDR started the Civil Conservation Corp program. It was a program that black just happened to benefit from although the program was not put in place for blacks. FDR was a racist but his wife was sympathetic to the black cause. FDR refused to integrate the military during ww2 and wanted to stop the Tuskegee air training program. His wife demanded it stay operational and thus it ended up a success.

    • @kahielhastings9495
      @kahielhastings9495 4 роки тому +1

      ☝❤✊🙏😔

  • @susanlmcneal
    @susanlmcneal 3 роки тому +15

    Great movie and values. Wish families today could learn to work together like this today.

  • @bigvalley4987
    @bigvalley4987 5 років тому +60

    I really appreciate this Family. They are so worthy of the Family of the Year,🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @ScarletKnightmare
    @ScarletKnightmare 4 роки тому +31

    Whenever I get tempted by low interest rates on something I can't afford, my wife has me rewatch this. I will continue to save up for things instead of financing them. The point is to make money on my tools, not to pay for them. This film is timeless.

  • @mannyfrencha5736
    @mannyfrencha5736 5 років тому +45

    Good stuff to see. It's a generational message that can be utilized even now

  • @sekhemasaru5718
    @sekhemasaru5718 5 років тому +333

    I'd rather live this way in the forest today than live in any city in the world, of course with some modern conveniences, but in Nature far away from city life!

    • @yvonce7309
      @yvonce7309 5 років тому +13

      Gantry Smith
      Exactly!!!😁👏🏼

    • @kephayah426
      @kephayah426 5 років тому +8

      I feel the same way.

    • @trevorholland7
      @trevorholland7 5 років тому +13

      I live it everyday and it’s definitely a luxury

    • @stresswun1
      @stresswun1 5 років тому +6

      Yeah. Live in wild but get that machine. I love how they started with the saw and axe and worked their way up. The heritage of slavery was next in my auto play did u watch that too? A very striking contrast for me it was.

    • @sekhemasaru5718
      @sekhemasaru5718 5 років тому +3

      @@stresswun1 not yet but I will.

  • @kingstongreen1658
    @kingstongreen1658 5 років тому +39

    In my life time was able to experience this in the 80’s. The place was Bogue Chitto and Springfiend Mississippi. Currently my family have a logging company and doing very well....

  • @Wattablast50
    @Wattablast50 3 роки тому +34

    A family working together to achieve their dreams. This is what life should be about.

  • @teetataylor
    @teetataylor 6 років тому +101

    Discipline and determination..i love it.

    • @MrCJ-qz9dl
      @MrCJ-qz9dl 5 років тому +1

      Yes...and it could not be overstressed.

    • @thewoods9359
      @thewoods9359 5 років тому +1

      teeta6794 taylor tell it

  • @karengunia5451
    @karengunia5451 5 років тому +30

    What a great inspiring film! If more people would wait and save like this determined family did for what they wanted, people would appreciate what they have.

  • @keked9231
    @keked9231 4 роки тому +11

    Good ol days when family was family. No phones just communication. Sitting at the table with your family not on the phone. Working and doing chores. All this every little detail is appreciated and gold. Sad we dont have that today🙏😪

  • @susanhurst3292
    @susanhurst3292 2 місяці тому +1

    This film has me missing my grandmother! What a wonderful film!

  • @LovingAtlanta
    @LovingAtlanta 5 років тому +62

    👍I love how the whole family was committed to saving and I love how they all got dressed up and went in town together to shop etc. 😃

    • @morganmaloney3935
      @morganmaloney3935 3 роки тому +5

      The little boy is my neighbor who is not my grandpa but I call him papa his name Is Jim hunter, great man

    • @melbee5767
      @melbee5767 3 роки тому

      Lol I hate when I go to Walmart and people are shopping with three generations of their family in tow 😂.

    • @cynthiamumbi8933
      @cynthiamumbi8933 2 роки тому +1

      @@morganmaloney3935 you're so lucky to have such an amazing person as a neighbor. Please tell us what happened to his dad, mom and bro....what's their story?

  • @jimmylongmyonlinevideos6711
    @jimmylongmyonlinevideos6711 4 роки тому +16

    I love this. Awesome movie . No racism or bigotry. Just good ole fashion living and HELP when needed. For that time they did come up by working together as a FAMILY and when they needed assistance their neighbors came to their assistance and when they went into the city the community knew and assisted them. Very good movie from the past that we all can learn from today.

    • @bhhookkick3
      @bhhookkick3 Рік тому +4

      Racism was still live and well remember the Jim Crow law they just didn't show it in the film

    • @tdirtyatl
      @tdirtyatl Рік тому +1

      ​@@bhhookkick3Exactly. This family was successful in spite of it, but this was the height of it.

  • @tywanawhite73
    @tywanawhite73 6 років тому +66

    My dad and granddads ...did this for a living...We called it putt wooden...this is right around time when they did it..Great Vid

    • @honeysuckleblues4533
      @honeysuckleblues4533 6 років тому +10

      Yes, you are right. My father did it for years and those men were taken advantage off. Cut all that wood and didn't make hardly anything.

    • @honeysuckleblues4533
      @honeysuckleblues4533 6 років тому +3

      My father got burn marks on his shoulders.

    • @rickyevelynsheppard5994
      @rickyevelynsheppard5994 5 років тому +7

      Pulp wooding

    • @geraldboykin6159
      @geraldboykin6159 5 років тому +3

      @@rickyevelynsheppard5994 : I am a former truck diver of pulp wood. The trailers are
      usually overloaded beyond 80,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight. My last load was 96,000lbs.

    • @geraldboykin6159
      @geraldboykin6159 5 років тому +1

      @@rickyevelynsheppard5994 : Correction: Truck Driver

  • @nizaaguero8783
    @nizaaguero8783 5 років тому +11

    I loved the Irony of this movie. Love how the neighbors pitched in to help put the fire out. All love.
    Love ur movies.

  • @WhiskeyRichard.
    @WhiskeyRichard. 4 роки тому +19

    This was probably one of the best things I've ever seen. It was compelling to the end.
    The ending words are something we should all be carrying with us as goals.

  • @AddLoveTM126
    @AddLoveTM126 6 років тому +49

    Bravo! SOOOOO Beautiful & Heartfelt, Showing Family Love, in Action! More like these please & Thanks A Million! 💪😄💖👑

  • @saltwaterinmyveins
    @saltwaterinmyveins 3 роки тому +11

    This is the best! How my family lived. The town in the video is Guyton and the paper mill is Weyerhaeuser in Port Wentworth. They where still taken "short wood" at Gilman in St.Marys till 2002.

  • @essencewimbush1689
    @essencewimbush1689 5 років тому +17

    Best movie I've seen in Years! All working for a common good. FAMILY!!

  • @Ironsight813
    @Ironsight813 4 роки тому +25

    I’m from Mississippi and we had a saying: never pick a fight with a puckwood worker, my grandpa was one and one thing they had in common they had arms the size of Popeyes 😂

  • @myownname5495
    @myownname5495 5 років тому +20

    I moved to the city in the 1980s and I've told people for years that they haven't lived until they lived on a farm or in a family with love and respect for one another. I believe our work brought us together. I didn't always appreciate the hard work but me and my brother we had The Adventurous time of our lives there is no place I'd rather be than on a farm. I had a good childhood at least up to and until the time I move to City. In the city the quality of life was poor people didn't care for each other the way you saw in that film that's the way people took care of each other and Mississippi everyone was just like that. You felt loved and respected. You didn't go past someone's house and not wave at them, if they have funeral you took food to their homes, if they have fire you helped out or anything but most people were too independent to ask or to beg for anything. And we did everything for ourselves but was there for each other black and white people, just like in this clip. So don't think this is an exaggeration. Everyone respected my dad. Oh closes neighbors were middle class white people. We didn't hang out after work with white folks but we all just like in the clip looked out and had a mutual respect for one another.

  • @yakk13
    @yakk13 5 років тому +54

    Aah, the days when hard work and honest living were justly rewarded

    • @stephenhensley5631
      @stephenhensley5631 4 роки тому +2

      Wow! Nice white people.

    • @chesterhicks9350
      @chesterhicks9350 3 роки тому +2

      this is great info.for the young people to love. themselves about being black

    • @MrCJ-qz9dl
      @MrCJ-qz9dl 3 роки тому +1

      @@chesterhicks9350 Amen to that.

  • @clytchan
    @clytchan 5 років тому +12

    I loved watching that film. So many lessons to be learned from it.

  • @bahdoofficial4701
    @bahdoofficial4701 5 років тому +37

    This is exactly what family should be like.

  • @Billsmith532
    @Billsmith532 11 місяців тому +1

    . . . . . . Is there any way to go back to the good old days? I'm missing those days so very much. Reelblack One, blessings!🙏💪🧡

  • @beloved5028
    @beloved5028 5 років тому +13

    This was such a joy to watch. a feel good movie.

  • @shennelcourtney6487
    @shennelcourtney6487 3 роки тому +15

    This was really educational.What a hard working family!👍❤

  • @Cookefan59
    @Cookefan59 5 років тому +60

    I’ll be damned. I had tears in my old ass eyes at the end. That little boy reminded me so much of myself. I had an older brother like that too. Unfortunately, he later went into the Marines and was killed in Vietnam. I had a grandma like that as well with a very similar sewing machine. I wonder why there was no mothers/wives even mentioned in the film for any of the families? In any case, this was a great little production and even had some drama in it. That damned truck! It was just jealous of the new machine they were so focused on.

    • @mrstanbmw
      @mrstanbmw 3 роки тому +4

      so sorry to hear about your brother so many young guys were destroyed in the war if they made it home they had Shell Shock what they now call PTSD, I saw a guy like that after his tour so sad.

    • @rose.stewart5478
      @rose.stewart5478 3 роки тому +6

      My. Son. Died also. Bad. Water in. Us. Marines. Dead at 34yrs old bad. Añti depressant. Harbor. View. Hosp. Srattke

    • @ashleyvalentine2790
      @ashleyvalentine2790 2 роки тому +1

      So sorry for your loss. God bless the 🇺🇸 military! SALUTE TO ALL. GOD BLESS 🙌

  • @fphelps1a
    @fphelps1a 5 років тому +15

    What an inspiration for families! Alot to said about the film!

  • @matrox
    @matrox 5 років тому +15

    They turned $60 a day into $180 a day. That's about $46000 a year. Damn good money in 1952.

  • @ladytee7311
    @ladytee7311 6 років тому +42

    I love the information your putting on UA-cam so I signed up today. Great job!

  • @lindayoung58
    @lindayoung58 5 років тому +28

    Family values and unity towards a positive goal. Attainment of goal further striving and thriving in peaceful harmony. How can I get back to 1952? please someone, anyone know? Meanwhile Thanks

  • @lindaisaac8119
    @lindaisaac8119 5 років тому +5

    What a beautiful story of one family who all pitched in to better themselves. This is what makes a family. Working for and with one another with love and respect for one another. A beautiful testimony of a beautiful family.

  • @jamesroberts9192
    @jamesroberts9192 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for the return of time. A great family working together in thick&,thin a happy family moving with time into the future people all gone but this film brings them back into our hearts and minds Thanks to everyone for making it a great video top10. We remember them

  • @TheGobblersGetback
    @TheGobblersGetback 5 років тому +13

    Love my people.....This is our greatness portrayed in this video.

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 8 місяців тому

      Why aren't MY people included in this film?

    • @TheGobblersGetback
      @TheGobblersGetback 8 місяців тому

      @@robertwalker5521 If don’t have the same ethnicity as the people in the vids,
      it’s not about..👌🏾

  • @tomeliafarmsthegoodearthfa3206
    @tomeliafarmsthegoodearthfa3206 5 років тому +27

    This was a Wonderful and Powerful show of pride in Ownership and Stewardship of Land Owners.

  • @gerrie720
    @gerrie720 4 роки тому +8

    I grew up with people like this, we had a purpose, we had good neighbors.
    Hardwork, at night you slept well, the garden, dirty fingernails.
    These were good wholesome times,
    Men were men and knew their role, also the women, God I wish we could turn back time.

  • @AH-fk6bd
    @AH-fk6bd 5 років тому +7

    Aint nobody stopping all of the nostalgic from living this way now, but we know the truth of that, don't we, lol. Thanks for posting this, great to see this period material.

  • @mzwisdom7504
    @mzwisdom7504 6 років тому +19

    This Channel is awesome. Thanks for all the great history you share.

  • @jimdraper6193
    @jimdraper6193 5 років тому +9

    I lived in such a time what wonderful people and not to many people are blessed like these I miss those times I was telling my wife today I would like to go back just for a while and have a nice visit

    • @muhendapatrick1695
      @muhendapatrick1695 3 роки тому +1

      It's what I lived in, but we were enforced to be in modern world.

  • @deniseallen3379
    @deniseallen3379 5 років тому +6

    I love this film so much. I found it last night. Been watching it several times because I LOVE it very much. Bless you and thank you for posting it.

  • @Kenny-re8ko
    @Kenny-re8ko 5 років тому +21

    If I was Mrs Hunter I'd be lobbing for a washing machine (already got the Philco fridge). That would reduce washing from a likely 3 days a week down to one (eliminate the scrub board).
    I know a family in my area who's oldest son bought his mother a wringer/washer with his first paycheck. They had 12 children then and eventually had 16. That woman did laundry on a scrub board 6 days a week! That was reduced to one. Talk about being liberated! This was about 1940, and it wasn't in Georgia, it was Eastern Ontario (good Catholics with a huge family, poor as church mice, but the next generation was very successful, building and renovating houses).

  • @carolynharris7580
    @carolynharris7580 5 років тому +4

    Thanks for loading the great historical data and movie. When I visited my grandpas & cousins in East Texas. The wood was called "Puck." Wood. I loved the smell of it & would love when my family would drive past the trucks. Thanks for the experience & education. God bless

  • @beverlyboo9075
    @beverlyboo9075 5 років тому +48

    I watched this years ago and it got me to where if I bought anything new or anything I did not have use for that I had I would give it away to someone. People always have too much stuff around that they are not using that someone else could really use. You just don't know how that helps people.

    • @jannawalters232
      @jannawalters232 4 роки тому

      We recently sold a lot unwanted things. Brought in about $500! Great thing to do

  • @sweetnessisrael235
    @sweetnessisrael235 5 років тому +26

    Thank you very much. Tbh I don't watch tv nor have them in my house. Enjoying the videos your bringing❤

    • @officetechtyping
      @officetechtyping 5 років тому +6

      Us as well. We got rid of television in 01. This channel is great!

    • @deborahxavier-velez1630
      @deborahxavier-velez1630 4 роки тому +1

      @@officetechtyping 3
      2005 and hadly watch before that.

  • @tailor-mademedia1406
    @tailor-mademedia1406 6 років тому +47

    *The Hunter* family 'bout to go out there and knock out some of that Georgia pine!

  • @jaegosushaesyuemarshall-br8304
    @jaegosushaesyuemarshall-br8304 5 років тому +31

    My grandfather was pink Lindsey he had a logging company in Kansas an Arkansas he died at 105 1995

    • @reelblack
      @reelblack  5 років тому +5

      God bless

    • @trishwillson2904
      @trishwillson2904 5 років тому +6

      Happy for you ,that he was here on this earth for such a long time , what a blessing.

  • @dianagreen5700
    @dianagreen5700 4 роки тому +3

    I love these old filmstrips, full of good memories and especially good morals and family values!

  • @CuseSouthSide
    @CuseSouthSide 3 роки тому +2

    I loved this movie; It reminded me of when I was a young school kid and they would sometimes show inspirational movies like this one!...

  • @cescalyons
    @cescalyons 4 роки тому +2

    I wish I can go back in time. Life was simple, full of love and family support. Thanks for sharing!

  • @norzinshakabpa1852
    @norzinshakabpa1852 4 роки тому +3

    A wonderful moving movie on the African American Family - all struggling to make ends meet with the whole members of the family working together and bonding - People must remember that ALL HUMAN BEINGS needs are the same, to have work, to be loved and be treated with respect and pursue their goals with dreams of happiness without fear and prejudice from their fellow beings.
    Thank you - Norzin Y. Shakabpa

  • @kpreyer
    @kpreyer 4 роки тому +4

    The beauty of their talents and strength of working and saving money on what you need, not want. After the fire, they were still optomistic about working harder to get what the family decided together. Simply Beautiful.

  • @TR1_93
    @TR1_93 4 роки тому +5

    Omg I watched the whole thing!.. it was so captivating

  • @johnnywilliams4977
    @johnnywilliams4977 2 роки тому +1

    Man them were the days life was so simple. Hard work family sitting at the dinner table.all eating together going to church together. Man I miss them days. But these are alright also.great family movie.keep them coming.

  • @sekhemasaru5718
    @sekhemasaru5718 5 років тому +71

    Living in Nature the Forest, you can't help but act like you got common sense and figure out how to live.

    • @williamhelm6632
      @williamhelm6632 5 років тому +1

      SekhermAsaru - Well said!!👌👍

    • @ziblot1235
      @ziblot1235 3 роки тому +3

      When you know that a stupid error could result in a harder job, more lifting and toting, then you think wisely how to do the job quickly, safely and without "killing yerself"!

  • @amyhyde70
    @amyhyde70 5 років тому +14

    Excellent movie👍👍
    I was getting all into it hoping they could get that saw.
    Then couldn’t wait for mother to get her sewing machine!!
    Really really nice info movie💜🎉👍

    • @Soda3000Pop
      @Soda3000Pop 2 роки тому +1

      Black families praying together, and working together, and saving together... It's a winning combination every time. If only all black families had a father in the household like Mr Hunter, our people would be disciplined and hard working and successful!

  • @reyunawilliams7932
    @reyunawilliams7932 5 років тому +37

    I grew up like this, I have many things now, but I realize I had a lot then and didn't know until late In life. Fresh grown food every day, well water that was cold from the ground, which was the best well we thought. I would love to take a walk in the woods picking black berries, wild plums which was so sweet, and sweet wild strawberries, and Black Wild muscadines, these properties were share cropped by the owners, but we could go on many others properties hunting, or picking fruits or vegetables no one told us to get off! Great memories in a subjugated south in American history in Georgia, yes I drank out black fountains, got out of line for white folk "Yalsum" and "nal sar" was polite. That was then, this is now yes ma'am and no sir haha.

    • @onethingaboutit7061
      @onethingaboutit7061 5 років тому +9

      You are right. Mother Nature was good back then. You could easily find black berries, and plum's, even on the side of the roads. Now days you can rarely find them anywhere.

    • @charesshlarraga7420
      @charesshlarraga7420 5 років тому

      Hello, you didn't see such signs in this video because it wasn't filmed in Georgia, USA but in Georgia of Europe. Thats why they were land owners and not share croppers.

    • @soniarena5250
      @soniarena5250 5 років тому +5

      You are right, im watching this and I feel that the family had a lot, people today may thinks its nothing. I was born in 1980 in GA so things in my time have been quite different. But watching this I know the family in this video was blessed to have the food, a truck, a well to get fresh water, family and etc.

    • @jimhump3575
      @jimhump3575 5 років тому +1

      same thing i used to live by my grand paren on st eustatia, back in the mid sixties, we had an generator for corrent n a well with rain water , did not rely on governament support, we had a shop. n few chickens , bake our own bread, order good from the us for the store , really good independant life,

    • @Barbara.714
      @Barbara.714 4 роки тому +2

      Your life sounds so much like mine growing up in a small Georgia town.Those were the best day's of my life looking back.

  • @yancy808
    @yancy808 5 років тому +13

    Even today this video speaks volumes.

  • @johnwest7463
    @johnwest7463 3 роки тому +7

    The true definition of a family working together toward a goal back in the days when kids were taught values hard work sadly lacking today

  • @charlescameron1769
    @charlescameron1769 4 роки тому +1

    Wow! 5 words.
    In sper ra tion al! There is nothing you can't do if there is a genuine strong family bond coupled with mutual respect for each other.
    So moving!
    Thank you.

  • @CoachDarren
    @CoachDarren 5 років тому +20

    WOW! I love this channel shows awesome black history and content.

  • @amberlinmchugh8115
    @amberlinmchugh8115 5 років тому +13

    Wow. Work hard for what you want. Save the money and THEN buy it. People have forgotten

  • @dorothyj.muhammad3092
    @dorothyj.muhammad3092 5 років тому +7

    Thanks for sharing a heart-warming story of a strong black family unit, neighborly love, honest work ethic. This certainly helps to build a sense of self-worth and strong character in black children, especially when mother, father and children work together in an atmosphere of love and respect! This story was so educational and uplifting..... we need to pass it on!

  • @Seekimo
    @Seekimo 5 років тому +43

    We have FALLEN manipulated by LIES. This was excellent

    • @kahielhastings9495
      @kahielhastings9495 4 роки тому +2

      So right brotha...😔🙏

    • @roxiet7016
      @roxiet7016 4 роки тому +3

      You proudly speak truth✨🎶💫🔥 truth.. there has been over a million -trillion devious lies...falsehoods and misrepresentation on purpose....
      The so called power structure and their assorted rage a muffins.. made sport of our misery for hundreds of years..,🧐😣.. and yet as Beloved Dr Angelou said ‘ And still I rise’💫
      We are truly an amazing spiritually acute brilliant group!! Set behind jealous cruel enemy lines..’..
      But their unbelievably wicked time is done...
      Ashe’O
      Peace fam🎶🌹🔥
      Stay up♦️

  • @lajoybraxton5341
    @lajoybraxton5341 6 років тому +44

    As you can see.African American men were laborers,worked in fields and were family men.I never understood why we were hated.I know we wasn’t the only race to be hated on.Indians,Jews,Filipino,and the list goes on.It just hurts me knowing so many people were victims of racism.Burned,lynched,brutally torchered.When will it all end .God help us.

    • @everettewade923
      @everettewade923 6 років тому +5

      When you go to war that's when it ends...

    • @mosesreza510
      @mosesreza510 5 років тому +2

      sadly,
      you are right... you WERE

    • @mellajoe
      @mellajoe 5 років тому +3

      Lajoy Braxton I question the storybtoldbto us about the Jews because they have alll the wealth and control it’s pretty hard to believe the holocaust story,.

    • @wilsongerard1077
      @wilsongerard1077 5 років тому +1

      Lajoy Braxton And African American women/ society didn’t need feminism

    • @trishwillson2904
      @trishwillson2904 5 років тому +2

      @Micheal Williamson if I could I would give you more than 1 thumbs down! REALLY!

  • @eriktarver2087
    @eriktarver2087 2 роки тому +6

    Just goes to show how working together for one common goal can change not only your life but the lives of everybody close to you.

  • @oohweeoohwee9222
    @oohweeoohwee9222 6 років тому +27

    I love old educational films.

  • @bigvalley4987
    @bigvalley4987 5 років тому +7

    This video did not need any words. The Music would do. This a nice wholesome American History excerpt. People not of the Homeland might not understand. However, a American born and bred in the USA would enjoy this unadulterated piece of history. You want get this in the news and the computer age media😞

  • @donscarbo5796
    @donscarbo5796 5 років тому +2

    really enjoyed this amazing movie. it soothed my soul on a calm Friday evening in London.

  • @gwenniewennie8325
    @gwenniewennie8325 5 років тому +8

    My dad was a logger. He taught me how to load a truck. We went with him in the woods, to cut trees for home, sometimes. Only difference, he had modern tools.

  • @deanguando1335
    @deanguando1335 5 років тому +9

    Good clean honest hard working Americans. No credit cards. No living beyond one's means. Family working together. No bitching and complaining. Working for the common good. Neighbors caring and looking out for one another. Do you really think that America can be this great again?

    • @adrianjohnson1486
      @adrianjohnson1486 5 років тому +3

      Sadly, no. We're too selfish, too smug and too comfortable now.

    • @trishwillson2904
      @trishwillson2904 5 років тому

      I think there are still amazing people in America.

  • @jayejohnson5257
    @jayejohnson5257 4 роки тому +5

    I love it, working together as a family and sacrificing to achieve a better life❤️

  • @joanneganon7157
    @joanneganon7157 5 років тому +5

    Very meaningful.
    Lovely story.
    Jo Jo in VT

  • @islandgirl9479
    @islandgirl9479 5 років тому +10

    James better not complain about his chores getting water
    I had to carry water 2 miles to my home,it hated that chore, and I hated washing clothes on the washboard that was back breaking, then cook and clean the house....SMH
    Glad those days have passed.😬

  • @wallacewellons8757
    @wallacewellons8757 3 роки тому +1

    Dam good heritage show that family didn't give up they dug deep within that's called sticking together an I loved looking at mother face when she got her sewing machine ❤️ hard work back then but good friends an good people made it easy. Love it

  • @karenwomble2640
    @karenwomble2640 4 роки тому +2

    My husband was a man(Child)of the forest which led to stage 4 prostate cancer over the years.He died in pain August 14,2019 in Virginia.Brutal work for an 8 yr old.

  • @thebrownfilmshow
    @thebrownfilmshow 3 роки тому +1

    This is such an important film to watch.

  • @lovedavis9572
    @lovedavis9572 5 років тому +8

    wow this brought tears to my eye am so proud of them.. just love it

  • @tanyag1200
    @tanyag1200 4 роки тому +3

    Before my time love the movie and the powerful messages.📽
    All things ARE Possible. Aka Determination.✊🏾
    Thanks for sharing Reelblack.👍🏼
    Be safe Everyone 🌏😷

  • @godisgreatjesusislord2278
    @godisgreatjesusislord2278 Рік тому +1

    What a beautiful family, give praise to Jesus and hard honest work will prosper you and fill you with love!

  • @jayh8680
    @jayh8680 6 років тому +20

    Great information family. Lovely channel.

  • @gregw8401
    @gregw8401 6 років тому +11

    Thank you for this video!

  • @EricLehner
    @EricLehner 4 роки тому +3

    Documentaries of this bygone era convey maturity and understanding. They seem more grown-up than today's hyped-up videos, teaching and entertainment.

    • @EricLehner
      @EricLehner 3 роки тому +1

      @@normandparent7160 Thank you for your kind thought.

    • @EricLehner
      @EricLehner 3 роки тому

      @@normandparent7160 Great channel, nice viewers. What's not to like? Cheers.

  • @bigmike9244
    @bigmike9244 3 роки тому +1

    The best I have ever seen in years!!!