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My Hometown: The Britton Films

54m 46s

Ivan Besse, a projectionist at the Strand Cinema, made films of his hometown of Britton in the 1930s. His movies reflect daily life in small-town South Dakota during the Great Depression. His films were the subject of this 1991 SDPB Documentary.

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