Feathered Warrior
Work
- Date of Production
- 1973
- Duration
- Run time: 0:12:20
- Creators
- Zickafoose, Ben (is director)
- DuBey, Gene (is director)
- Hatton, Bill (is director)
- Contributor
- Craft, Fitzhugh (is musician)
- Summary
- The Illegal sport of cockfighting is documented in this film. A cockfighter who has won over sixty-five per cent of his fights outlines the rules of the game, describes the skills and techniques needed to win, and talks about why people enjoy the sport. A slow motion sequence during a fight shows the sweeping motion of the birds as each attempts to cut to victory. The Feathered Warrior is one of a series of films produced by the Appalachian Educational Media Project, an APPALSHOP film training program
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private foundations.
- Description
- Ben Zickafoose directed and edited the film. Gene DuBey and Bill Hatton helped on the production. The film was shot during the winter of 1972-73 in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. The music in the film is played on a saw by Fitzhugh Craft of Cumberland, Kentucky.
- Related Collection
- Feathered Warrior materials, c.1973
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