[1941]: Reel 1-A: Mexico
Category: Travelogue
Length: 13:26
Film Description | Streets, buildings, traffic. Stone wash basins along wall for community use. Wall; homes by stream. Church tower ( ? ). Wash drying; street of poor houses. Scenes of city; poor homes. Stone-carved facade. Countryside: streams, vegetation, [distant pan shots] Thatched hut: high conical roof. Landscaped grounds; large, stone building. Jungle. Wooden building with leaf-thatched roof. Flowers, vegetation. Views in a fairly large city. Carved skulls or faces on stones in pile. Stone carvings: skulls and bones on stelae. Large hollowed boulder, prob. a mortar. Stone metate, grinder. Stone carving: seated figure. Fountain. Building topped by large sculpture. Advertising sign. Large domed arch or bandstand (?). Modern city; distant rooftop views. Gardens, planter along modern house walls Notes by other contributors: “This filming can not be from 1933. It must be 1940 or later, because the film "There is the detail", starring Cantinflas (whose image comes out in a marquee at 12:25 min), was filmed in 1940.” |
Video Category | Travelogue |
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