Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton runs a batch of moonshine from mash to jar, and the camera stays close through every step: building the fire under a copper still, running the thump keg, testing the proof by shaking the jar and watching the bead. Neal Hutcheson filmed it in 2002 in the mountains outside Maggie Valley, North Carolina, and for years the only way to see it was to buy a VHS copy from Sutton himself, sold out of the junk shop he kept at the bend of the road toward Soco Gap. Sutton narrates in his own voice, cussing at the equipment and explaining techniques passed down before federal agents made the trade illegal, and the footage doubles as a record of a skill he expected to die with his generation. Copies got passed around and dubbed until the film built a following on its own, and the same footage later resurfaced, reworked, in the Emmy-winning PBS special "The Last One." This is the rougher, original cut, unpolished and specific about the work itself.