It's funny, I usually remember a film that I've seen in detail. This one eluded me for some reason. I also liked the Barbara Allen juxtaposition. That was a good touch.

Aside from Dorothy Scarborough, might there have been a reference to Jean Thomas
(The Traipsin' Woman)? Also, Sidney Robertson Cowell, wife of Henry Cowell the composer did a bit of traipsin' in the backwoods of the Appalachians as well. She uncovered was was known as a "white spiritual", "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, which is sung typically as a moody classical music version n the style of an African-American spiritual. I believe that she was the first one to document this song sometime in the early thirties. (don't remember the chronology). Ronnie Gilbert and I attempted to do this on a Weavers at Carnegie Hall album the way I had heard it done on Cowell's field recording.

Frank