This film was made by my Grandfather Joe Phillips somewhere between 1916 and 1918. Grandfather had a production company from California come to Tazewell in hopes of making movies. My mother said that he built a large shed to store the equipment beside his house in Tazewell which would have been where my father, Al Payne built his house in the middle of Tazewell. Among some of his films were the Barren Creek Flood and various locations in and around Claiborne County. He showed the films at his theater located on Main Street in Tazewell, located near the present offices of Lawyer Danny Stone and James Estep, III.

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