Vanishing Frontier (1963)

Documentary showing the challenges faced by North Carolina’s mountain communitiesin adapting to modern life. According to Elmer Oettinger, North Carolina author WilmaDykeman found that The Vanishing Frontier “explores, reveals, and interprets with cool intelligenceand a warm sympathy the paradoxes, problems, and promises of our mountain region.”NOTE: The film brought to the screen information from a 1962 Ford Foundation survey.Also known as The Dying Frontier. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.