Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

1/1/1982 - 9/30/1984

Funding Totals

$125,000.00 (approved)
$124,985.00 (awarded)


The Estate Auction: A Rural Community Copes With Death

FAIN: GN-20546-82

Center for Visual Communication (Philadelphia, PA 19119)
Jay Ruby (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support production of a 60-minute documentary film portraying the values of a rural American community through an estate sale. The film will show the event as part of a social process of the community to accommodate the death of one of its members.