Mexico 1939 Reel 3 of 6

Category: Travelogue

Length: 17:49

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWodT0rjw0Y
Film ID F16-0013
Film Description Reel 3 of 6
Unedited travelogue
Summer
Oaxaca
Monte Alban

Shotlist

Hut, gourd on wall and stone on galvanized roof.
Women washing hair.
Flower garden.
Huts and village.
On train to Oaxaca.
Man of heavy load.
Donkeys.
Crockery.
Donkeys carrying and dragging long limbs.
Donkey having trouble with load.
Street.
Homemade loom.
Flowers.
Wood scaffold.
Wood ox yoke with wood shoulder pad.
Two girls on donkeys with basket loads, [ws and mws]
Huts.
Dilapidated bus.
Street.
Mitla
Monte Alban ruins.
Terrace farming.
Ruins.
Stone doorway to chamber where Monte Alban jewels were found,
Stone carving, [detail]
Hollow stone metate for grinding grain and seeds.
Flowers.
Mountain, [stone carving in foreground. ]
Donkeys.
Ruins.
Wood plow in use.
Village.
Home and huts.
Fording stream, [ws-6 pack animals and 2 girls.]
Street, church, street.
Church and carving on church.
RCA victor statuette.
Husband and wife.
Bandstand.
Street and market.
Donkeys carrying hay or straw.
Two wheel carts fording stream, and girls.
Dog in stream drinking.
Mule, train, vultures in background.
Road.
Woman carrying large empty basket on head.
Horse carrying load of baskets and woman nearly lost.
Cart carrying load of art wood.
Street.
Carrying chicken.
Load of pottery on donkey.
More chickens being carved.
Pottery market.
Basket market.
Video Category Travelogue
Film Creator Watson Kintner
Topics Mexico, Oaxaca, Monte Alban, Zapotec culture
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