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Video Parts (6 across 2 reels)

This clip is Reel 1, Part 1 of a 6-part film.

LATIN AMERICA, ITS RACIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

Documentary: On South America's economic and cultural life. R.1: Shows Latin American life in former Inca territory in the Pacific Coast region, Inca cultural remains, marketplaces, villages, a church at Cuzco, and Lake Titicaca's waterfall, Peru. Nitrate mining and copper factory in Chile; cattle raising in Orinoco Valley, Venezuela and Colombian ethnic groups: Indians, Spaniards and Negroes; men work at asphalt lake in Trinidad, Venezuela; milkman sells in Cartagena, Colombia. R.2: Shows birds, animals and butterflies in the Amazon River basin; latex harvest; traffic and city life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; coffee plantation workers in Santos. Ranching and farming in Argentina, and city life in Buenos Aires.

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Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups

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Date
1937-01-01
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3:08