The Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)-Part 2

Eurocentric view of the plantation system and its effect on Southern U.S. culture.
Placing the viewer in the perspective of the white tourist family, a historically preserved Southern mansion is investigated and the past system of plantation owners and slaves is re-created. The homes of the past are contrasted with the homes of the current tenant farmers and landlords. At the end, as the viewer observes a polite barbecue party of well-dressed white people as the voiceover narrates:
"Today, if we visit a social gathering in the south, we'll see some of these things. The gentle manners and courtesy. The separation of society into distinct groups. And the relationship of that society to the land, which supplies its wealth. These are some of the things the plantation system has contributed to southern life."

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Producer: Coronet Instructional Films
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[theone1087]

Cheap labor? Wtf he meant to say free labor!!!! Working at Walmart is cheap labor, being a slave is virtually free unless these devils are counting the scraps of food the overseers gave them. Fuck this country!

[kimmijo]

I would have loved rehabbing that old plantation mansion; sad to see beautiful architecture wasted. That well-cultivated land has probably been been sub-divided and paved over to make way for tacky tract housing and strip malls. Damn carpetbaggers!

[MissSai99]

No mention whatsoever of the fact that the workers are now PAID for their labor and no mention at all of segregation that was most definitely still be practised in 1950. "Separation of the groups or classes" was what the narrator says I believe. What a joke. These "instructional videos" from the 50's and 60's are hilarious by today's standards of course but also very scary in how they blantantly show what life was like during the time the videos were actually made.

[Bynkers83]

He forgot to mention the segregation policy. It was a part of the southern culture at that time ( 1950)

[miermalik]

ALL THAT SHOWS IS THAT BLACK IS THE REASON AND WE ARE THIS FUCKIN COUNTRY POWER TO THE MOTHAFUKIN PEOPLE

[cthluthlu]

Southern society was separated into distinct  groups. Talk about an understatement. This propaganda film was made 5 years before Emmett Till, so we know what the flip side of the so called southern hospitality can look like. It's not pretty to say the least.

[bintasyllah]

@icisprincess09 Enslavement makes capitalism prosperous and thus is the backbone of the occidental business model. Marketing requires enormous creative acumen and inculcates the NEED for a service/product perhaps when there isn't one. Enslavement require great skill, but very little regard for man. Not all Africans knew of enslavement prior to the Trans-Atlantic passage, but blacks today do. Most black are reluctant to acknowledge any African lineage and seem to have easily forget history.

[icisprincess09]

@bintasyllah Well let me explain something to you. I am in no way in the dark about the way things are in this country. After all I do live here. And I'm guessing you must be one of those people for you to have even responded. Just for the record every society and culture and areas that are corrupt. But a man who choses slavery for the advancement of anything is not that talented, creative, or ultimately worthy himself. Its the easiest form of personal gain enslave someone. Doesnt require skill

[bintasyllah]

@TheDiddlysquat my friend's dad grows tomatoes for Heinz. They get the FATTEST welfare check I have EVER heard of.... and somehow they own 2 tomato factories in PA.

[bintasyllah]

@theone1087 FUCK every country. You show me an honest, fair and just country and that country should have absolutely NO rich people.

[bintasyllah]

@icisprincess09 It's already in full swing, but I guess it's easiest to critique a way of life 50 -100 years AFTER the fact.