Interviews with Bois Sec Ardoin; August Goodly, Felix Richard and Barry Ancelet, et al.
Interviews with Bois Sec Ardoin et al:
0:00 - Bois Sec Ardoin's grandson driving a tractor, rice harvesting
2:00 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks about the success rice harvest that year
4:50 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks describes the rice harvesting process
6:30 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks about what he likes about farming
6:55 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks about the difficulties of farming
7:50 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks about how much they were paid for farming when he was young
8:50 - Bois Sec Ardoin talks about the difficulties of finding work when he was younger
9:50 - Rice combine harvester
11:48 - August Goodly introduces himself; talks about farming
12:40 - August Goodly talks about his combine harvester
13:10 - August Goodly talks about his debt, dealing with the bank
-the expenses of rice harvesting (the rising costs of fertilizer, seeds, etc.)
14:30 - August Goodly talks about Creoles in Alan Parish
15:00 - August Goodly talks about his relation to Bois Sec Ardoin, his family
16:00 - August Goodly talks about farming (in French)
17:00 - August Goodly talks about French being his first language, going to school
17:25 - August Goodly says that his teacher didn't punish him for speaking French in school
17:48 - Lomax talks about the Ardoins and Goodleys growing up in a community of free people of color
18:35 - Rice combine harvester, rice harvesting
25:00 - Lomax talks about the footage they're taking; Avery Island bird sanctuary
27:30 - Rice combine harvester, rice harvesting
31:00 - Egrets in a field
32:12 - footage of downtown Mamou, Fred's Lounge
34:00 - Alfred “Fred” Tate standing in front of Fred's Lounge
34:30 - Alfred “Fred” Tate talks with the camera crew
35:20 - Barry Ancelet interviews Felix Richard
35:30 - Felix Richard talks about the French language
35:45 - Felix Richard talks about going to school and learning English, his parents not speaking English
37:00 - Felix Richard talks about being punished for speaking French in school
39:15 - Barry Ancelet tells a joke about "the young boy who went away to school" / Jean Sot à l'école
41:00 - Barry Ancelet talks about a version of the "Jean Sot à l'école" joke
-its a joke that exists in the Indian Ocean about a boy who claims to forget to speak Creole
42:00 - Felix Richard tells a version of the tall tale "The Great Hunt wihout a Gun" / "La belle chasse sans fusil"
46:30 - Barry Ancelet tells a version of the tall tale "The Great Hunt wihout a Gun" / "La belle chasse sans fusil"
47:30 - Felix Richard talks about fighting in dance halls in Marais Bouleur
49:15 - Felix Richard talks about "bataille aux mouchoirs"
50:00 - Felix Richard tells a story about a man who tied up his mare at the Step-Inn Club in Lawtell ("La jument verte" / "The Green Mare")
56:30 - Felix Richard tells the story "Les deux nicheurs" / "The Two Practical Jokers"
58:45 - Felix Richard talks about storytelling traditions in his family
1:00:00 - Barry Ancelet and Felix Richard talk about bayou land vs. prairie land, gardening, rice and cotton farming, isolation
1:03:00 - Felix Richard talks about going to dance halls on Saturday nights in Bosco, Maurice, etc; cock fighting, dog fighting, Cormier's Cock Pit
1:04:12 - Felix Richard tells a story about three people getting killed at Bergeron's dance hall in Higginbotham
1:09:40 - Felix Richard talks about fighting at house dances, how school has helped to end violence, constables at dance halls and house dances
1:11:00 - Barry Ancelet talks about the rules at dance halls and house dances
1:12:20 - Barry Ancelet tells the story of Oscar Gilbeau pulling a man's eye out with his knife; "Grand Rond"
