The Online Catalog allows searching and browsing of information about the Florida State Archives’ holdings of over 48,000 cubic feet of state and local government records and historical manuscripts. The catalog provides descriptions of over 3,400 collections and lists the contents of containers and folders in many of those collections. For assistance with accessing and using State Archives collections, call our Reference Staff at 850.245.6719 or email us at archives@dos.myflorida.com.
"Fishing All My Days" Shrimping Documentary records, 1985-1986.
Amount:
.25 cubic ft.
Medium Included:
Organization/Arrangement:
Unarranged.
Restrictions:
Terms Governing Use:
Biographical/Historical:
Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys, and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
Originally titled "They Say the Salt Water Gets In Your Blood", "Fishing All My Days" was a 30-minute documentary highlighting the traditional culture and lifestyles associated with Florida's shrimping industry, including the folk culture of shrimpers. The documentary was produced by the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs in cooperation with WUFT-TV and funded in part by the Southeastern Fisheries Association and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was the third in a series of video documentaries produced by the bureau for public broadcast. It premiered first on WUFT-TV, Channel 5, Gainesville, on May 19, 1986, and was then broadcast to all Florida PBS affiliates after May 27, 1986. A pre-broadcast viewing was held for those who participated in the planning and production of the program in February, 1986.
A brochure was produced to advertise the documentary, which was available to purchase on video cassette, and the bureau also produced materials for teachers' to encourage use of the documentary in lesson plans. The brochure featured the eponymous quote from Rudy Singleton, "Just fishing all my days. Sometimes I get tired, and I'll take off for a little while, maybe a year or so, but once a shrimper, always a shrimper. They say the salt water gets in your blood."
Summary:
This series consists of materials related to the planning, production, release, and promotion of the video documentary on Florida's shrimping industry, "Fishing All My Days". Correspondence is included between the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs and the Southeastern Fisheries Association, the Florida Endowment for the Humanities, and other parties involved with supporting the project. Also included is a rough script outline of the video documetary under it's original title, "They Say The Salt Water Gets In Your Blood", that was provided to sponsors of the program for feedback in late 1985.
Also included are field notes, informant information sheets, gift agreements, depositor agreements, and resources on the fishing industry and resources on the shrimping industry and shrimper culture, such as maritime superstitions. Photographs and video index forms are included with 9 black and white photographs of net making, boat building, and different vessels. Also included in this series are materials from the production of a brochure advertising the documentary and materials created for teachers on how to effectively use the documentary in lessons.
Finding Aids:
Folder listing available.
Additional Physical Form:
Reproduction Note:
Location of Originals/Duplicates:
Associated Materials:
For audio from "Fishing All My Days", see S 1615, Box 20, Video and audio recordings of Florida folklife events, programs, and television broadcasts. For additional photographs taken for the documentary, see S 1696, Box 3, Camera ready photographs and negatives.
Language Notes:
Ownership/Custodial History:
Publication Note:
General Note:
Electronic Records Access:
Subject Access Fields:
Florida Folklife Program
Shrimp fisheries Florida. Shrimpers Shrimp industry Seafood industry. Folklore Florida Boats and boating Florida Folklife.
Press releases. aat Field notes. aat Agreements. aat Letters. aat Photographs. aat
for detailed listing.