Abstract:This article analyzes and considers the contemporary significance of Palmour Street: A Study of Family Life (1950) and All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1952), two nontheatrical films produced for the Georgia Department of Health (GDPH) in the early 1950s and now available online. Made by progressive writer/director George Stoney, the health-focused films feature rare documentary images of black mothers and midwives in rural southern homes and communities. As GDPH productions, they also envision a "useful" South in the midst of institutional modernization during the late Jim Crow era. The two films ultimately represent black women according to their utility in this New South by looking past the larger effects of racial segregation on cinematic and institutional perceptions of health. Today, Palmour Street and All My Babies allow us to confront a screen South that allows us to better imagine and create a region that embraces difference.

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重播有用的南方：黑人女性、中世纪家庭生活和佐治亚州公共卫生部的电影

摘要：本文分析并考虑了 Palmour Street: A Study of Family Life (1950) 和 All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1952) 的当代意义，这两部为佐治亚州卫生部 (GDPH) 制作的非戏剧电影在1950 年代初期，现在可在线获取。由进步作家/导演乔治·斯托尼 (George Stoney) 制作的以健康为重点的电影以罕见的纪录片形象为特色，讲述了南部农村家庭和社区中黑人母亲和助产士的故事。作为 GDPH 的作品，他们还设想了在吉姆克劳时代后期制度现代化过程中的“有用”南方。这两部电影最终通过回顾种族隔离对电影和机构健康观念的更大影响，根据她们在这个新南方的效用来代表黑人女性。今天，