Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949) (also titled "Palmour Street (1949) | A Black Family in Gainesville, GA") is a short black and white documentary film written, produced and directed by the prolific filmmaker and "father of Public Access Television", George C. Stoney, and his collaborator Bill Clifford.
[1] Premiering at the old Fair Street School in Gainesville, Georgia, the film's purpose was to promote the growth of the African American middle class.
[4] As he also would do with his Georgia production of his All My Babies documentary film in 1953, Stoney partnered with local Hall County, Georgia-based African American physicians, Dr. William Alfred Mason and Dr. Emmett Ethridge Butler, to gain the trust of the black community.
Stoney worked closely with the Hall County Health Department to gain trust from the local white community.
[7] Shots include: a health clinic waiting room, people dancing on the front porch, pea-shelling, communal outdoor clothes-washing with washboards and tubs, and other scenes.