A Regular Bouquet Mississippi Summer (1964)

Actor and filmmaker Richard Beymers documentary film A Regular Bouquet Mississippi Summer 1964 offers a rare portrait of segregated Mississippi during this historically significant time in American History Beymer was one of the few filmmakers to spend significant time working with Freedom Summer volunteers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC As a result other documentary filmmakers frequently seek his footage Most recently filmmaker Stanley Nelson relied heavily on A Regular Bouquet when completing his film Freedom Summer which premiered in June 2014 on PBS Beymers footage was also included in Henry Hamptons seminal documentary series Eyes on the Prize 1987 Featured in episode five Mississippi Is This America 19621964 Hampton combined stock footage and firsthand accounts to retell the events of Freedom Summer