The Thirties in Colour - Mexico 1/5

[jakeXT]

Run time: 10:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJgY-031m18   Posted on YouTube: September 14, 2008 By YouTube Member: DocumentalesMexico Views on YouTube: 3176   Posted on DU: April 22, 2011 By DU Member: jakeXT Views on DU: 497

 
Four-part series using rare, private and commercial colour film and photographs to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s.

One of the most prolific collectors of colour film in the period was the American industrialist Harry Wright. A self-made millionaire with a passion for film, he acquired and commissioned hundreds of films, which he screened for guests at the private cinema he had built in his home in Mexico City.

The programme examines Wright's extraordinary colour films of Africa and Central America, including his so-called Ethnographic Series of Unknown Mexican Indians, a unique visual record of the lives and customs of indigenous peoples living in the remote rural regions of Mexico.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cqfd4


Saw parts of it recently on TV, unfortunately couldn't find the other parts online...

[MineralMan]

1. Very nice stuff. I'll go back and watch the whole thing another

time. I wish I could just see the films, though, without the narration breaks.

[jakeXT]

4. I wonder who owns them now, besides the family itself

[Sherman A1]

2. Thanks for Posting

[mucifer]

3. I think what he did was creepy.