Avalon Daggett Explained

Florence Avalon Daggett (1907–2002)[1] was an American filmmaker and philanthropist. She is associated with Avalon Daggett Productions, a film production company based in Los Angeles which specialized in short documentary films, and educational films.[2] Many of her later films were produced for the state of Louisiana.

Biography

Florence Avalon Daggett born in Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana and was raised on a plantation.[3] She lived in Switzerland for a few years.[4] She was described as being diminutive in stature. She filmed with a Bolex 16 mm film camera and her work had been honored at the Cannes Film Festival.[5]

Daggett made documentary films about Western subjects including Native American tribes and cattle, where she made use of a technique known as tribesourcing. Tribesourcing is an approach applied to update, correct, and contextualize educational films; many of these films have historical value but the films are often containing incorrect or demeaning "facts", especially about Native Americans.[6]

Daggett also made films about sights in her home state of Louisiana, and about Mississippi. She made a film for the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission, entitled A Way of Life (1961).[7]

Philanthropy

After she died in 2002, the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) was left with an endowment for professorships by Daggett. Daggett had been friends with Dr. Joe Musick, the former director of the Rice Research Station at LSU AgCenter (near Crowley); where many of her bequeathed funds were used.

She also funded a Native American scholarship in Arizona.

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Navajo Canyon Country . 2022-09-15 . Alexander Street, part of Clarivate.
  2. Web site: Avalon Daggett Productions . OCLC WorldCat Identities . OCLC, Inc..
  3. Book: Louisiana Conservationist . 1961 . Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department . 13–15 . en.
  4. Web site: Researchers named to professorships. November 23, 2009. Farm Progress.
  5. News: 2009-12-06 . Three LSU AgCenter Researchers named to Daggett Professorships . 10 . The Rayne Acadian-Tribune . 2022-09-15.
  6. Web site: June 25, 2018 . Tribesourcing the American Indian Film Gallery . Moving Image Archive News.
  7. Web site: Louisiana: A History; A Way of Life produced for Louisiana Sovereignty Commission by Avalon Daggett . 2022-09-13 . en.
  8. Web site: Villages In the Sky American Indian Film Gallery . 2022-09-13 . aifg.arizona.edu.
  9. Web site: Villages in the Sky (1953) Tribesourcingfilm.org . 2022-09-13 . tribesourcingfilm.org.
  10. Book: Motion Pictures . 1960 . U.S. Government Printing Office . Library of Congress Copyright Office . 259 . en.
  11. Book: Affairs, United States Bureau of Indian . Educational Film Catalog for Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools . 1979 . Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs . 100 . en.
  12. Web site: Avalon Daggett Productions. https://web.archive.org/web/20220908180039/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b964d8573. dead. September 8, 2022. BFI.
  13. Web site: Apache | American Indian Film Gallery. aifg.arizona.edu.
  14. Web site: Navajo Canyon Country. September 8, 1954. Internet Archive.
  15. Web site: Page 3 | The University of Iowa Libraries.
  16. Web site: Cattle Ranching "Herds West" 1955 Avalon Daggett; Cowboys on the Range, in Nutrition Lab & Feed Factory. Jeff. Quitney. August 5, 2019. Vimeo.
  17. Web site: Rose Parade 1960. WorldCat. 26 September 2023.
  18. Web site: The big span. WorldCat. 26 September 2023.
  19. Web site: Louisiana: the jazz age meets the space age . WorldCat.
  20. Web site: Big piers . OCLC WorldCat Identities.
  21. Web site: Big river crossing . OCLC WorldCat Identities.
  22. Web site: Blog Posts. The Cine-Tourist.