13174_27208_appalachia2
1965
B&W
Footage portraying a bleak Christmas in Appalachia, Kentucky.
People wait in line for flour. Man walks away holding large bags. Boy wearing worn and torn clothing sits at a desk lookin sullen. A woman holding a toddler looks off into the distance. A mother and son sit looking sad. An older woman stands outside looking off into the distance.
Shots of run down buildings, the interior of a bedroom, a family sitting on chairs, a cemetary and assorted tombstones, and a post office sign in Roxana, Kentucky, a man walking into Mitchell's Sales Company, and a man mining coal.