Believe it or not I grew up in the1970s this way. We lived on a farm in Mississippi. Every summer we had a big garden, chickens, pigs, turkeys and ducks on the yard. Also a pond where we caught craw dad's and rivers where we caught big giant catfish and other fish. We had a fireplace and a big yard full of firewood my dad and brothers cut. My dad worked 6 days a week and my beautiful stepmom was a stay at home mom who got up at 6:30 every morning and made homemade biscuit's (no pancakes) with rice bacon sandwich eggs for breakfast. She washed clothes on ringer washer every other day, sewed every day and we always came home from school to a hot meal ready to eat every day. She made all our bed covers spreads and blankets. There was13 of us and the house was spotless.We never had a rat or roach . My dad was the same way she packed his lunch and water jug and Mason jar of tea every day. He went to work everyday and on the weekends made sure the grass was cut cars were worked on oil was changed and tuned up. We never had broken or busted anything if we did he and my brothers fixed it. Although he cut the big lots with a chain saw he still chopped logs or split them with an ax or used the one or two hand saw with my brothers. Funny how I just thought he liked wearing overalls. :) He hunted rabbits squirrel and pigeon. No possems or racoons or any thing like that)and sat fishing lines in the Tallahatchie river. At the onset of winter he would slaughter a pig and salt the ham hang in my the smoke house. slice the bacon and grind the sausage.Start a fire under the big black pot in the yard for my mom and she would make crackling or rather late for cooking. And lots of lard came from the cracklings. And of course she cleaned the chittlings. I had fun living on the farm we had peach trees, plum trees, peacan and walnut trees black berries persimoms and a host of other fruits growing most of you have probably never heard of growing on our farm. We had adventurous minds as children made our own cars and even play houses, lots of rolling hills and plenty green grass and a horse that was never used for labor only fun to ride

A strong black family is priceless.

I will never forget when my mother got her first sewing machine. She sewed all our clothes 9 kids. She sewed for neighbors and friends and made enough money to finally buy us shoes. Those were the days🤗

What poor black families accomplished merely loving and helping each other is heartwarming. Although his neighbors had advanced in their production, there was no indication in the film of envy, or jealousy, only support, cooperation, encouragement, thankfulness. The old folks have always said working hard, perseverance, and kindness triumps over insummountable odds. Thank you for posting, a film about Black folks not exhibiting lives of wierdness, and violence but accomplishing hopeful expectations.

Whenever I get tempted by low interest rates on something I can't afford, my wife has me rewatch this. I will continue to save up for things instead of financing them. The point is to make money on my tools, not to pay for them. This film is timeless.

I’m from Mississippi and we had a saying: never pick a fight with a puckwood worker, my grandpa was one and one thing they had in common they had arms the size of Popeyes 😂

👍I love how the family philosophy was that the money belonged to all of them so they all had a say in how the money was saved and spent. 💞

I'm Mexican and I worked so hard in my childhood but i know the black people had it toughest so I give them credit and respect and thank you so much for this upload I really enjoyed it I was so happy for mama for her sewing machine

Excellent film about a strong African-American family working together as a team to make their daily work life easier by getting a power saw to save time working. They saved their small change and put it together to buy something that benefit the entire family. Every family should watch this film to see what they can achieve together as a family if they stick together and be a family.

They turned $60 a day into $180 a day. That's about $46000 a year. Damn good money in 1952.

I'm Mexican descendent and I worked in heavy labor,, and Yeap African American people are really hard working!!👍

This is exactly how I want to live. With a beautiful hard working family

This is exactly what family should be like.

A family working together to achieve their dreams. This is what life should be about.

Now that’s real living real richness living good good pure food no cell phones family connecting no social media poison love it,I’ll give it all up for this warm simplicity ...lots of love

Actually the best movie I've ever seen on many levels, We all need to get back to this mentally today in 2019-2020 & beyond.

People of non American descent refuse to believe that the infrastructure of the USA was built by Black Americans, Our infrastructure, buildings was not dependent on a person forcing themselves in a Country. This was accomplished by people who were paid No Wages. However, they know their worth in American History. And no one Will ever take that away from them. God Bless Black People who give and gave with their toil, labor and talents. Black folk is a large part of American History🇺🇸,

This is one of the best videos I have ever watched. I got teary when they got the saw and then again when Mama got her sewing machine, when she clapped her hands with joy.

I really appreciate this Family. They are so worthy of the Family of the Year,🥰🥰🥰🥰

I like this channel because even BET do not show this much positive classic films

I'd rather live this way in the forest today than live in any city in the world, of course with some modern conveniences, but in Nature far away from city life!

👍I love how the whole family was committed to saving and I love how they all got dressed up and went in town together to shop etc. 😃

Absolutely loved this movie.. Hard working family! If we in society today only worked HALF this hard and had HALF the discipline and determination they had!

Thank you so much for posting this educational piece.

Good ol days when family was family. No phones just communication. Sitting at the table with your family not on the phone. Working and doing chores. All this every little detail is appreciated and gold. Sad we dont have that today🙏😪

In my life time was able to experience this in the 80’s. The place was Bogue Chitto and Springfiend Mississippi. Currently my family have a logging company and doing very well....

Aah, the days when hard work and honest living were justly rewarded

Great movie and values. Wish families today could learn to work together like this today.

Good stuff to see. It's a generational message that can be utilized even now

Wow. Work hard for what you want. Save the money and THEN buy it. People have forgotten

My dad and granddads ...did this for a living...We called it putt wooden...this is right around time when they did it..Great Vid

I love this. Awesome movie . No racism or bigotry. Just good ole fashion living and HELP when needed. For that time they did come up by working together as a FAMILY and when they needed assistance their neighbors came to their assistance and when they went into the city the community knew and assisted them. Very good movie from the past that we all can learn from today.

What a great inspiring film! If more people would wait and save like this determined family did for what they wanted, people would appreciate what they have.

I’ll be damned. I had tears in my old ass eyes at the end. That little boy reminded me so much of myself. I had an older brother like that too. Unfortunately, he later went into the Marines and was killed in Vietnam. I had a grandma like that as well with a very similar sewing machine. I wonder why there was no mothers/wives even mentioned in the film for any of the families? In any case, this was a great little production and even had some drama in it. That damned truck! It was just jealous of the new machine they were so focused on.

My grandfather was pink Lindsey he had a logging company in Kansas an Arkansas he died at 105 1995

This is the best! How my family lived. The town in the video is Guyton and the paper mill is Weyerhaeuser in Port Wentworth. They where still taken "short wood" at Gilman in St.Marys till 2002.

I loved the Irony of this movie. Love how the neighbors pitched in to help put the fire out. All love. Love ur movies.

I moved to the city in the 1980s and I've told people for years that they haven't lived until they lived on a farm or in a family with love and respect for one another. I believe our work brought us together. I didn't always appreciate the hard work but me and my brother we had The Adventurous time of our lives there is no place I'd rather be than on a farm. I had a good childhood at least up to and until the time I move to City. In the city the quality of life was poor people didn't care for each other the way you saw in that film that's the way people took care of each other and Mississippi everyone was just like that. You felt loved and respected. You didn't go past someone's house and not wave at them, if they have funeral you took food to their homes, if they have fire you helped out or anything but most people were too independent to ask or to beg for anything. And we did everything for ourselves but was there for each other black and white people, just like in this clip. So don't think this is an exaggeration. Everyone respected my dad. Oh closes neighbors were middle class white people. We didn't hang out after work with white folks but we all just like in the clip looked out and had a mutual respect for one another.

This was probably one of the best things I've ever seen. It was compelling to the end. The ending words are something we should all be carrying with us as goals.

Discipline and determination..i love it.

Living in Nature the Forest, you can't help but act like you got common sense and figure out how to live.

Best movie I've seen in Years! All working for a common good. FAMILY!!

Bravo! SOOOOO Beautiful & Heartfelt, Showing Family Love, in Action! More like these please & Thanks A Million! 💪😄💖👑

*The Hunter* family 'bout to go out there and knock out some of that Georgia pine!

Family values and unity towards a positive goal. Attainment of goal further striving and thriving in peaceful harmony. How can I get back to 1952? please someone, anyone know? Meanwhile Thanks

If I was Mrs Hunter I'd be lobbing for a washing machine (already got the Philco fridge). That would reduce washing from a likely 3 days a week down to one (eliminate the scrub board). I know a family in my area who's oldest son bought his mother a wringer/washer with his first paycheck. They had 12 children then and eventually had 16. That woman did laundry on a scrub board 6 days a week! That was reduced to one. Talk about being liberated! This was about 1940, and it wasn't in Georgia, it was Eastern Ontario (good Catholics with a huge family, poor as church mice, but the next generation was very successful, building and renovating houses).

This was really educational.What a hard working family!👍❤

I watched this years ago and it got me to where if I bought anything new or anything I did not have use for that I had I would give it away to someone. People always have too much stuff around that they are not using that someone else could really use. You just don't know how that helps people.

I grew up with people like this, we had a purpose, we had good neighbors. Hardwork, at night you slept well, the garden, dirty fingernails. These were good wholesome times, Men were men and knew their role, also the women, God I wish we could turn back time.

Love my people.....This is our greatness portrayed in this video.

James better not complain about his chores getting water I had to carry water 2 miles to my home,it hated that chore, and I hated washing clothes on the washboard that was back breaking, then cook and clean the house....SMH Glad those days have passed.😬

This was such a joy to watch. a feel good movie.

Good clean honest hard working Americans. No credit cards. No living beyond one's means. Family working together. No bitching and complaining. Working for the common good. Neighbors caring and looking out for one another. Do you really think that America can be this great again?

Even today this video speaks volumes.

I loved watching that film. So many lessons to be learned from it.

We have FALLEN manipulated by LIES. This was excellent

I love the information your putting on KZfaq so I signed up today. Great job!

This was a Wonderful and Powerful show of pride in Ownership and Stewardship of Land Owners.

Man them were the days life was so simple. Hard work family sitting at the dinner table.all eating together going to church together. Man I miss them days. But these are alright also.great family movie.keep them coming.

What an inspiration for families! Alot to said about the film!

I lived in such a time what wonderful people and not to many people are blessed like these I miss those times I was telling my wife today I would like to go back just for a while and have a nice visit

THEY INCREASED THEIR LABOR WHICH IS TRICKY. I DID THAT LONG AGO, WORKED TWO JOBS AS A DANCER, NINE HOURS A NIGHT. AFTER A YEAR I COLLAPSED FROM EXHAUSTION, COULD NOT WORK FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. I HAD NO BACKUP AS I SUPPORTED MYSELF. IT WAS ROUGH. I HAD TO MOVE OUT OF MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE RENTED HOUSE INTO A CHEAP APT. I LEARNED NEVER LIVE AT OR ABOVE YOUR MEANS, ALWAYS BELOW, & DID THAT EVER SINCE. THAT WAS WHEN I WAS 21 YRS. OLD. I NEVER WENT INTO DEBT SINCE.

Excellent movie👍👍 I was getting all into it hoping they could get that saw. Then couldn’t wait for mother to get her sewing machine!! Really really nice info movie💜🎉👍

Aint nobody stopping all of the nostalgic from living this way now, but we know the truth of that, don't we, lol. Thanks for posting this, great to see this period material.

Just goes to show how working together for one common goal can change not only your life but the lives of everybody close to you.

My husband was a man(Child)of the forest which led to stage 4 prostate cancer over the years.He died in pain August 14,2019 in Virginia.Brutal work for an 8 yr old.

Omg I watched the whole thing!.. it was so captivating

If only blacks could have gotten reparation.they could been working for themselves.not sharecroppin

I love old educational films.

My dad was a logger. He taught me how to load a truck. We went with him in the woods, to cut trees for home, sometimes. Only difference, he had modern tools.

This Channel is awesome. Thanks for all the great history you share.

The true definition of a family working together toward a goal back in the days when kids were taught values hard work sadly lacking today

The movie was shot in Effingham County in 1952 by the United States Information Agency. The 1952 film featured members of the Hunter and Reese families of the Guyton area... The original black and white film focused on the work ethics and value system that existed with Kent’s great-grandfathers, Lewis Hunter and Terling Reese. The new film includes excerpts from the original along with on-camera interviews with surviving film participant James Hunter. He was 12 years old at the time of filming and is now 78. The original film, "Men of the Forest," can be seen on KZfaq. The original participants in the film had never seen it until it was "rediscovered" last year by a family member. The film captured the families working in the pulpwood industry, supplying wood to Union Camp in Savannah. Remington Kent's parents, David and Eleanor Kent, proved to be a lot of help in getting this film made. They provided historical and anecdotal information about their great grandfathers.

What a beautiful story of one family who all pitched in to better themselves. This is what makes a family. Working for and with one another with love and respect for one another. A beautiful testimony of a beautiful family.

Kids today don’t know nothing about hard work!

Thank you very much. Tbh I don't watch tv nor have them in my house. Enjoying the videos your bringing❤

I grew up like this, I have many things now, but I realize I had a lot then and didn't know until late In life. Fresh grown food every day, well water that was cold from the ground, which was the best well we thought. I would love to take a walk in the woods picking black berries, wild plums which was so sweet, and sweet wild strawberries, and Black Wild muscadines, these properties were share cropped by the owners, but we could go on many others properties hunting, or picking fruits or vegetables no one told us to get off! Great memories in a subjugated south in American history in Georgia, yes I drank out black fountains, got out of line for white folk "Yalsum" and "nal sar" was polite. That was then, this is now yes ma'am and no sir haha.

This video did not need any words. The Music would do. This a nice wholesome American History excerpt. People not of the Homeland might not understand. However, a American born and bred in the USA would enjoy this unadulterated piece of history. You want get this in the news and the computer age media😞

Thanks for loading the great historical data and movie. When I visited my grandpas & cousins in East Texas. The wood was called "Puck." Wood. I loved the smell of it & would love when my family would drive past the trucks. Thanks for the experience & education. God bless

I loved this movie; It reminded me of when I was a young school kid and they would sometimes show inspirational movies like this one!...

As you can see.African American men were laborers,worked in fields and were family men.I never understood why we were hated.I know we wasn’t the only race to be hated on.Indians,Jews,Filipino,and the list goes on.It just hurts me knowing so many people were victims of racism.Burned,lynched,brutally torchered.When will it all end .God help us.

Very meaningful. Lovely story. Jo Jo in VT

The beauty of their talents and strength of working and saving money on what you need, not want. After the fire, they were still optomistic about working harder to get what the family decided together. Simply Beautiful.

Thanks for the return of time. A great family working together in thick&,thin a happy family moving with time into the future people all gone but this film brings them back into our hearts and minds Thanks to everyone for making it a great video top10. We remember them

A wonderful moving movie on the African American Family - all struggling to make ends meet with the whole members of the family working together and bonding - People must remember that ALL HUMAN BEINGS needs are the same, to have work, to be loved and be treated with respect and pursue their goals with dreams of happiness without fear and prejudice from their fellow beings. Thank you - Norzin Y. Shakabpa

WOW! I love this channel shows awesome black history and content.

I love these old filmstrips, full of good memories and especially good morals and family values!

I wish I can go back in time. Life was simple, full of love and family support. Thanks for sharing!

This really is nice to see. 😊

I love it, working together as a family and sacrificing to achieve a better life❤️

Thanks for sharing a heart-warming story of a strong black family unit, neighborly love, honest work ethic. This certainly helps to build a sense of self-worth and strong character in black children, especially when mother, father and children work together in an atmosphere of love and respect! This story was so educational and uplifting..... we need to pass it on!

I am from Jonesboro Louisiana. My grandfather used to be a pulpwood hauler orginally from the st.john community out side of natchioche Louisiana. He was the first mani in to own to own a gas powered chain saw and he owned his own truck. He and my grandmother had eight children and to oldest son helped him in the woods.When asked My grandfather said he use to pick cotton all day and my mother said they were not allowed to pick cotton because my grandfather had picked enough so they would not have to.

That's a good black man. Gave me hope💜

Thank you!!

I liked how they said; "the Hunters worked for themselves and not for wages." Black Americans are hardworking people who despite hardship fought and died for this country and achieved success in the face of racism. I wish politicians wouldn't divide us. I wish the victories of Black Americans were heralded and not always the victimization which makes them look weak and ineffectual. Clearly they as a group are not. They don't need liberal politicians who pander for votes and then go away. I'm amazed that Trump has delivered the lowest Black unemployment in history yet he is not seen as a hero among that community.

Documentaries of this bygone era convey maturity and understanding. They seem more grown-up than today's hyped-up videos, teaching and entertainment.

Once you get past the Trumpets, Violens and Piccolo's It was s Great Story 😊

I love this film so much. I found it last night. Been watching it several times because I LOVE it very much. Bless you and thank you for posting it.

This is gold! Thank you!

Family working together for a common goal