Mexico I (1935)

Category: Travelogue

Length: 16:05

https://www.youtube.com/embed/osjV_W6GyrI
Film ID F16-0527
Film Description Unedited ethnography/travelogue
Weaving
Village life
Aztec (?) Ruins

Shotlist

Unedited travelogue, see also related film F16-0526 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgvAYyD8xLU), likely by the same filmmaker. May be dated to 1920s

Weaving serapes
Marketplace
Village life
Washing clothes in the river
Bringing water in pots, carried on the head.
Pan of a small village with hanging moss from trees.
Landscape with river
Mission church with snow capped mountain in the near distance.
Women and children of a working family posing shyly in front of their home. (outside of a larger estate [?]
A tower shaped form with a landscape in the distance, Roman style aquaduct
Maya Antiquities
Video Category Travelogue
Topics Maya antiquities, Weaving, Serapes, Marketplaces, Textiles

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