Item Data
- Collection Title: Corky Culver Collection
- Item Title:
- ID Number: CC-026
- Date Range: c. 1998 & 1999 & July 2000
- Description: Corky visits her mother who has had several strokes.
- Biographical/Historical Note: Gractia Parsons Walsh Culver was born December 7, 1914, in Kennett,Missouri, and grew up in Kentucky. An English teacher and camp director, she had two children, poet and LHMP filmmaker Kathleen, born October 2, 1939, and Robert. She died December 28, 2000.
Gractia P. Culver, Obituary, TimesDaily, Florence, Alabama, Saturday December 30, 2000.
- Genres: Amateur Films
- Places:
- Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
- Color or B&W: Color
- Related Versions: All Gractia Parsons Walsh Culver tapes: #s 2-01, 2-07, 2-09, 3-15, 3-16, 5-08, 5-27
- Running Time: 01:03:11,26
- Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Corky Culver during Culver's lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.
- Sound: Sound
- Subjects: Mothers & daughters
- Creators: Kathleen "Corky' Culver
- Collaborators & Participants: Gractia Parsons Culver
- Source Format: Hi 8
- Format: Hi 8
- Viewing Log: Another tape of Corky Culver's mother after her series of strokes had begun. Opens with shots of greenery, chicks, house, gardens, gazebo. 3 elder women on a swing, including Corky’s mother on the right. A fourth in a chair on the far right
Shot of Corky’s mother in plaid shirt pans out to other older people. One, a man, has paintings next to him on couch. Holds them up. Corky in a room where her mother is in bed. Leans over her tenderly. Hospital corridor. Back in Gractia's room.
Gractia in wheel chair. Head keeps falling over. Attendant tries to give her some orange juice. Feed her.