https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2c7ce997-3379-481e-94d8-82e6aeb0b170 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Note: this film contains racist portrayals in blackface makeup (1:50) that will be offensive to a modern viewer. See below for more information. This 1946 film of "soundies" or music videos was released by Castle Films under the title "Songs of the South". This compilation of songs features a medley of “Showboat melodies” performed by The Marshalls including "I come from Alabama", "Way down upon the Swanee River" and "Camptown Races". It also includes the Dixiairs performing "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (2:51) and "Dear old Southland". The film includes imagery of Mississippi river steamboats. At (9:37) the "Golden Slippers" medley with "Dixieland" features African American singers and dancers in plantation type clothing, either depicting stereotypical happy sharecroppers or slaves. At (10:40), they are shown playing with dice. Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black people to portray a caricature of a black person. In the United States, the practice became common during the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "dandified coon". In the United States, blackface declined in popularity beginning in the 1940s and into the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and was generally considered highly offensive, disrespectful, and racist by the turn of the 21st century, though the practice (or similar-looking ones) continues in other countries. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEfoyVk2WA8 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:11:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2c7ce997-3379-481e-94d8-82e6aeb0b170 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.