Footage of Mamou Mardi Gras:
-Steve Riley on Wagon
1. Tape 1517 - Church Point Mardi Gras - Cooking the gumbo
2. Tapes 1518-1521 - Mamou Mardi Gras
-Footage of downtown Mamou Mardi Gras Festival
-Pine Grove Blues; Interviews with people in crowd; Une autre soir ennuient
-Capitaines and Mardi Gras riding through the crowd
-Dewey Balfa in Mardi Gras costume
-Interview with a Capitaine
-Mardi Gras Song; Womens' involvement in Mardi Gras
1. Tape 1512-1513 - Mulates
-Beausoleil - Bonsoir Moreau; Sur le Cortableu
-Travailler c'est trop dur; Bosco Stomp; waltz
-Les flammes d'enfer; waltz, t'en a eu
2. Tape 1514 - Entrance to Soleil
3. Tape 1515 - Footage from Oberlin Mardi Gras - footage of run and gathering, Mardi Gras Song
-footage of crawfish ponds, J'etais au bal; chasing the chicken
4. Tape 1516 - Mardi Gras Song
1. Tape 1506-1507 - Church Point Mardi Gras
-Interview with a local; Footage of Mardi Gras gathering; Various interviews
-Footage of Black Mardi Gras with Morris Ardoin playing accordion; Chanson de Mardi Gras
-Interview about the Women's Mardi Gras run; Serving gumbo
-Canray and group singing old Mardi Gras Song
2. Tape 1508-1509 - Church Point Party
-Mardi Gras Song
-'Oh bye bye'; 'Les flammes d'enfer'; 'Hee Haw Breakdown'
1. Tape 1500-1502 - Breaux Bridge, LA; Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys
-Hathaway two-step
-J'ai passe devant ta porte
-Church Point Breakdown
-J'aimerais connaitre; Waltz; J'etais au bal; Laisse moi parler a ton coeur
-Quand moi, je parler (Belton Richard tune); La porte en arriere; Interview with Walter Mouton
1. Tape 1399-1402 - The Glass House, New Orleans, LA - Dance Troupe, Dancing in parades
*No sound until about 33 mins*
-Burning costumes after using them for 4 years
-Dance demonstration, Dancing on the roof
-Shots of art and photographs of New Orleans architecture
-portraits and drawings of people
1. Tape 1393-1395 - Houma Indians
2. Tape 1396-1397 - Bois Sec
3. Tape 1398 - The Glass House, New Orleans, LA*NO SOUND*
0:00 - Interview with Amerindian
5:00 - Interview in a boat
20:00 - View of the river
22:30 - Continuation of the interview in the boat
48:50 - Interview with a man and his wife
56:13 - The man playing wit his accordéon
59:34 - Band is playing music
1:08:00 - Interview of the band's member
Interviews with Michael Doucet et al:
Interviews with Dewey Balfa et al:
John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys:
0:00 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Petite et la grosse"; Ann Goodly plays accordion
3:10 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Oh 'Tit Fille" / "Oh Petite Fille"; Ann Goodly plays accordion
8:18 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play a song in English; Geno Delafose plays accordion
17:24 - close-up on "The Telephone Book" with an image of a Floyd Sonnier engraving
17:44 - close-ups on other Floyd Sonnier engravings
John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys:
0:00 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Lucille," Geno Delafose plays rubboard
4:45 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play an instrumental
11:38 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "I Gave you my Heart"
16:00 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Jolie Blonde"
21:30 - Alan Lomax interviews a carpenter from Iowa
-Louisiana and his family about going zydeco dancing, being raised in French
