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1940s - Color, Home Movies: Texas; Mexican Highways & Peasant Villages w/ American Tourists

Reel Number: 221793-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Mexico,USA

Location: Austin,Texas

TC Begins: 00:57:21

TC Ends: 01:12:00

Duration: 00:14:39

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1940s - Color, Home Movies: Texas; Mexican Highways & Peasant Villages w/ American Tourists Texas state capitol building from city streets w/ traffic. 00:58:05 Narrow highway w/ traffic & wildflowers; cowboys & cattle; fields of sagebrush. 00:58:30 City buildings w/ palm tree. Mexican Border Crossing Covered Customs building over highway & cars; Mexico w/ boy / vendor at base of monument w/ clock on top. LS of straight paved highway. Thatched adobe brick huts along road. Mile post 1123, tilt up to curve in road. CU flowering shrub in wind. Cars passing on highway. Village huts & Mexicans outside. Pan mountains; boy sitting by road. Mountain tops & road scenes, village children & huts, chickens in road. Burros beside house; man & boy in wagon. MS thatched hut. 01:01:15 Two cars off road after accident & Mexicans sitting, looking. LS church bell towers above banana plants. View of paved road, Mexican & burros thru scrub brush; cattle grazing in shady of brushy trees. Pan countryside, dirt road w/ tree in middle. Thatched house / hut; desert cactus; farmyard. Cattle on road. CU boys, people along road. Baby swinging in hanging basket under thatched shade. Woman & kids by road. 01:03:20 MS flowering desert tree. Village street. Countryside, American woman beside sign: Tropico de Cancer / Tropic of Cancer. Two women & young girl at roadside w/ valley & rocky butte behind. 01:04:14 Trees along river; bridge & huts beyond, CU rural village of thatched huts. Flowering tree. 01:04:57 Overturned truck (?) w/ eagle painted on door. Town w/ church tower, tilt down to small factory building & Mexicans sitting in foreground in shade. CU church bell in tower w/ village below. Huts; stone road to church, people walking. Americans & village children. Mexicans & horses along village street; women carrying baskets. Horses tied in front of store (?). Village shots, small boy on donkey; pack animal w/ firewood. Rack of drying vegetation (?). 01:07:44 CU wooden caskets. Long shot of village street. Scale & weights on table in front of store (?). Mexican men getting water from stream (?) & carrying burlap bags. Stone wall & burros past w/ wood. Village activity. Naked boy outside house. House w/ shingle / shake roof, others thatched. Stone houses. Store. Boys beside tourists car, 01:10:54 LS of mountains & valleys w/ farms on hillsides. 01:11:06 CUs flowers. 01:11:47 MS American girl wearing red sombrero. Vacation Travel; Tourists; Tourism; Vistas; Rural Daily Life; Poverty; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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