Children in Charlotte, Texas are captured taking part in class lessons and singing together in music class during a school day in 1938. They later play on the playground, jump rope, and enjoy a game of baseball. Wood shop and gymnastics class follow, where the young girls do complicated stunts. Scenes of men working with cattle are also inculded. This film is part of a larger collection of itinerant films made by Arthur J. Higgins. Higgins was an itinerant filmmaker in the 1930s and 40s who visited towns across the country with his wife, spending several days recording posed scenes of daily life there that focused primarily on the residents, for whom the film was typically shown at a local theater.

Atascosa County Charlotte

child children kid kids student students classroom desk desks school

schoolwork schoolhouse school yard school yard teacher teachers girl girls boy boys

teenager teenagers choir girls choir sing singing song songs jump rope

jumping rope slide swing swings swinging baseball bases woodwork woodshop shop class

hammer saw letterman letter sweater cheerleader cheerleaders tumbling gymnast gymnasts gymnastics

stunt stunts acrobatics athletics sports recreation cow cattle agriculture livestock

TFC itinerant itinerant film itinerant films