Life in Charleston and Williamsburg in the 1940s Rare Color Film of the Old South

A spring vacation through the Old South in the 1940s, in real Kodachrome color scanned from the original 16mm home movie. Not colorized, not AI. The family's own title cards lead the way the Battery and the piazza houses of Charleston, St. Michael's and St. Philip's, the French Huguenot Church, the Citadel's cadets, the Dock Street Theatre rebuilt by the WPA, Cypress Gardens by boat, Duke Chapel, then Colonial Williamsburg only a few years after its reconstruction: the Governor's Palace, the Capitol under the British flag, the Raleigh Tavern, the Wren Building, then Jamestown, Stratford Hall, Wakefield and Mount Vernon. The narration tells how these places came to look this way, and what the tours of the 1940s left out: the port where nearly half of enslaved Africans entered North America, a Williamsburg that was more than half enslaved in 1775, and the 317 people enslaved at Mount Vernon in 1799. Chapters 0:00 Charleston: the Battery 1:35 St. Michael's 1:51 St. Philip's and the Huguenot Church 2:22 The Citadel 2:53 The Dock Street Theatre 3:16 Calhoun's churchyard and the slave port 3:48 Cypress Gardens 4:31 Duke University 5:24 Williamsburg 5:39 The Governor's Palace 7:08 The Capitol 8:30 What the tour left out 9:24 The Raleigh Tavern 9:59 The Wren Building 10:27 Jamestown 11:07 Stratford Hall 11:43 Wakefield 12:14 Mount Vernon 13:15 The South as it wanted to be seen #Charleston #CharlestonSC #Williamsburg #ColonialWilliamsburg #MountVernon #Virginia #SouthCarolina #1940s #USA1940s #OldFilm #realcolorfilm #notAI