Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

Cooper Home Movie #12

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Woman walking around a car
Men and women entering church
People looking at an airplane
Men and women gathering
People playing at the beach
Women talking
People playing at beach
Men proceeding into church
Woman playing Mother Mary in parade
Marching bands getting ready to march in a parade
Female dancers marching in parade
Queen riding on back of the car
Marching band in parade
King and queen sugar in parade
Contestants on floats
People playing around at the park
Boy playing with dogs
Little girl playing
Boy and girl playing with a dog
Kids dressed up for Halloween
Boy playing on a pile of snow
Boys and girls walking down the street together
Boys playing with dog
Boys playing basketball
Large crowd gathered in the park
Men and women coming out of church. Bishop digging in the ground with a shovel.
Boys and girls playing
Girls posing for camera showing off dresses
Little girls dressed up in white dresses
Kids playing in a garden
Men and women dressed in formal dresses dancing and eating
Men and women posing for a picture
Football Homecoming court being presented on the field
Band and dancers performing on a football field
Men and women hanging out on the street showing off their clothes
Queens and ladies curtsying in formal gowns
Men and women celebrating
“Woody Wood Pecked and the Invisible Woody”
Women posing in front of the camera
Men and women enjoying the park
Kids playing
Mean cleaning up (after a wreck possibly)
The after math of a train wreck
Over turned train cars
Men walking around trying to help clean up
At a military base (possibly for an air show)
Women posing in front of the camera

00:00 - Scott Playboy’s Special;
04:30 - La valse de ‘tit Maurice;

Recordings Made From Radio;
06:09 - Amédé two step\I’m Gonna be a Wheel Someday (Lee Benoit);
10:45 - Two different versions of Amédé two step

Recording of an Unnamed Live Band
14:55 - Cankton Waltz;
18:49 - Allons à Lafayette;
22:10 - La valse des grand meches;
26:10 - Instrumental two step (Theme Song);

Live Recording of Kermit Venable and the Church Point Playboys

00:00 - Cajun de Church Point;
02:50 - Don’t Mess With My Toot Toot;
06:20 - Bayou Teche two step (With Bee Cormier or potentially Matthew Cormier on Accordion);
08:45 - La valse de Bayou Teche;
11:27 - J’ai étais au bal;
14:28 - La valse de Bélizaire;
18:30 - La chanson de Mardi Gras;
21:12 - Unidentified Waltz;
25:22 - Battle of New Orleans;
28:58 - Les flammes d’enfer

00:00 - La valse de Reno;
03:48 - Les ‘tits yeux noirs;
06:55 - Les flammes d’enfer (instrumental)
10:00 - Waltz?
13:30 - J’ai étais au bal;
16:15 - Chère Alice;
20:55 - Tit Maurice;
24:49 - Pauvre Hobo;
27:40 - Touts les soirs;

Kermit Venable and Beau Basin with Lionel Leuleux on fiddle;

00:00 - Bayou Pon Pon;
03:11 - La valse des misères;
07:08 - Amédé Choupique two step;
10:44 - La valse des Guillbeaux
13:30 - Le blues Francais;
16:55 - Step It Fast;
20:12 - Kaplan Waltz;
24:15 - Home Sweet Home;
26:55 - La valse de malchanceux - acoustic version with accordion, fiddle and t-fer;
30:20 - Evangeline Special;

00:00 - La valse de Belizaire;
04:43 - Discussion - Nonc Allie's dad purchasing his first accordion, Playing fais do do’s in early days with first band;, Sterling and Monarch accordions;
07:00 - Jolie Blonde;
09:25 - Discussion - Mayeus LaFleur;
09:50 - Ton papa ma jeté dehors;
13:13 - La valse criminelle;
16:22 - Discussion - Les mazurkas, polkas, et des contredanses
17:50 - Allons danser, Colinda;
20:10 - La valse de Duralde;
13:14 - Allons a Lafayette;
26:20 - Les ‘tits yeux noirs;

01:23 - Les ‘tits yeux noirs;
05:00 - La valse de Duralde;
06:18 - Crowley two step;
09:03 - Jolie Blonde;
12:27 - La valse des Cherokees;
15:07 - Bosco Stomp;
15:48 - Chère bébé Créole;
18:48 - La valse de marriage;
21:45 - Eunice two step;
23:55 - Grand Mamou - Instrumental version;
27:06 - Lacassine Special;
28:19 - Reno Waltz;

Stories told by Glen Pitre;
00:01 - La truie maline;
02:42 - take 1 - Le marron de mon grandpère;
05:18 - take 2 - Le marron de mon grandpère;
07:48 - Take 1 - Les giraumont;
09:49 - Take 2 - Les giraumont;
11:50 - Le vent du nord;

Mme. Évelia Boudreaux recorded by Barry Ancelet;
12:21 - Les bêtes;
15:07 - La vie dans la campagne;
16:15 - L'histoire de 'tit poucette;
23:30 - Les amusements;
24:50 - La famille des ouararons;

00:00 - François Leleux - Lionel's great grandfather served in the Civil War;
04:00 - Lionel recounts how he became interested in violins;
06:15 - Story about Lionel's first 3/4 sized violin, purchased for $4.50, 50 cents per week;
09:25 - His bow hair eventually broke, so he purchased a hank of bow horsehair for 22 cents to rehair his bow, that was his first rehair job;
10:10 - Was given a fiddle in 1927 that needed repair, that became his first repair job;
12:15 - Lionel's fiddle playing idol was Bascom Mouton;
15:20 - Story about how he would look for pictures of violins in his early school textbooks, stopped school in the eighth grade;
18:00 - Lionel recounts finding books that explain how to make a violin;
19:20 - Violin varnish;
20:00 - Talks about why he regretted leaving school, missed out on math and chemistry knowledge that could've helped him in the violin trade;
25:30 - Discusses his favorite woods to use;
29:00 - Arching and graduations of the violin plates;

Lionel Leleux;
00:00 - Explaining the different parts of violin bows;

Inez Catalon;
11:20 - Introduction - Born in Vermilion Parish;
12:15 - Story - Mae West;
13:40 - Story - Le bourgue qu'était planter sur le coin;
14:30 - Story - Les bananes;
15:30 - Story - Les vigilantes;
23:10 - Les esclaves;

Storytelling sessions with Inez Catalon and Carrol Moreau

Des maisons; la cuisine; le lait; la nourriture; le Depression; les clos d'huile; le francais Cadien;

Storytelling by Hubert "Anatou" Clement, Sr.

Michael Doucet:

01:00 - Dancing to Cajun music
02:35 - Dudley Leblanc's Hadacol and its connection to dance
03:45 - The flow of the music and how it connects to dance
04:45 - Students giving feedback on dance expression to Cajun music

06:00 - His experience of Cajun music growing up and people dancing
10:00 - Allow emotions to guide their dancing
11:40 - Ways of reaching goals
13:35 - His intriguing visits and learning from older people, sparked his desire to preserve and pass on the music and history
20:00 - Experience learning by ear and the transfer of knowledge

30:00 - Origins of the waltz
32:00 - Class dances to 'Jolie Blonde'
37:30 - Polka
41:00 - Class dances to various songs
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Wilson Savoy's Traditional Cajun Music Ensemble Class with special guest, Michael Doucet:

00:00 - Review of previous week's class
00:40 - 'Bosco Stomp'
12:50 - 'Midland Two-Step'
21:20 - 'Cherokee Waltz'
25:00 - Comparing excerpts from different songs like 'Grand Mamou,' and 'Viens Me Chercher'

27:00 - Wallace "Cheese" Reed
35:15 - 'Bayou Teche Waltz'
40:00 - Origin of songs and how some people learned them
44:00 - Ways the accordion can imitate fiddle sounds; and discussing the diatonic accordion
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Michael Doucet speaks to a class, and is joined by the traditional music ensemble

00:50 - Significance of Cajun music being local and his journey learning and playing music
02:25 - Speaking about Irene Whitfield Holmes' thesis
03:00 - Cajun music in the 1970's and young people discovering traditional music

03:25 - NEA grant to study fiddle styles of Acadiana and immerse Cajun and Creole Music into primary schools with Dewey Balfa
07:00 - Different French dialects in Louisiana
13:15 - 'Happy One-step'
25:00 - 'Acadian Two-step'
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Michael Doucet, Forest Huval, Megan Brown, & Jo Vidrine:

01:30 - 'La Valse du Regret'
15:00 - 'Papa George'
21:00 - 'La Valse de la Vie'

26:00 - Mentions the author, Varmin Daigle, of 'La Valse de la Vie.'
28:00 - Discussing the design of the BeauSoleil Home
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