I unwittingly watched this 1939 travel short on old Natchez, Mississippi on TCM several nights ago and was shocked that in this day and age it was still being shown on television. The film features Natchez's spring pilgrimage tours and seeks to glorify antebellum life on the plantation. During one such tour are shown white folk and children representing the supposedly genteel master class dressed in their antebellum finery and engaged in choreographed dancing on the front lawn of the master's house. Meanwhile, the black slave characters in this tableau and one actual aged slave are seen wearing rags in front of the slave quarters, merrily involved in their own type of dancing, while one actually extols the happy lives of Natchez's slaves. The only legitimate reason for showing this film short would be in the context of a discussion on racism in this country and how filmmaking helped whitewash the horrors of slavery.