Corky Culver

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Corky Culver Collection
  • Item Title: Mixed Reel: Cam Ho & Corky; Dance Lesson, The Swing
  • ID Number: CC-016
  • Date Range: c. December 2009
  • Description: Mixed reel: A Vietnamese friend of Corky's demonstrates a traditional Vietnamese dance & also improvises. A tour of Long Leaf. Phyllis Plotnick teaches the Swing.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: For more information, contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP)
  • Genres: Documentary, Amateur Films
  • Places: Long Leaf, Florida; Lake Swan, Melrose, Florida; Gulfport, Florida; Payne's Prairie, Gainesville, Florida
  • 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
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  • Running Time: 01:02:03
  • 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: Ballroom Dance, Singing, Vietnamese Dance
  • Creators: Kathleen "Corky" Culver
  • Collaborators & Participants: For further information or if you or friends took part in these events, be great if you emailed us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
  • Source Format: Hi 8
  • Format: Hi 8
  • Viewing Log: Long Leaf Collective member shows off a miniature village she has constructed for a model railroad to a visiting Vietnamese computer scientist. Sound of footsteps. Shots of leafy ground and trees, all sideways. Corky asks the computer scientist if she'd like to sing a song. She says no. A collective member begins to sing a song from "The Sound of Music." Later the Vietnamese woman is wearing Vietnamese dress in Corky's living room. The two are alone. Corky: Now sing something. Vietnamese woman does. Then she grabs a wok-shaped bowl & dances with it as if it's a hat. Storm blowing up. Ground. Water vista. Payne's Prairie maybe? Vietnamese computer scientist takes photos. 15:48 Cut to Phyllis Plotnick's home, private lesson, the swing Talk about waltzes, the stroll. Let's go stroll, stroll across the floor.