Film Record: Down Mexico Way [1941]

Still from Down Mexico Way in Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 538.

Date produced: 1941

Filmmaker(s):

Frank E. Gunnell

Languages:

Length:

800 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1941 - General Class

Description:

"The immaculate camera work, incisive editing and attractive titling of Frank E. Gunnell have flowered into a new and superior beauty in Down Mexico Way. Here, in two full reels which seem like less, are all the standard Mexican Meccas — the capital city, the pyramids of Teotihuacan, Cuernavaca and the rest — each suavely sequenced and beautifully filmed. Added to these is a wealth of human interest, in smoothly planned records of such odd Mexican folklore as the self threaded needle cut from a maguey cactus, or the red dye concealed in the silvery cochineal wood louse. Mr. Gunnell's most superb triumphs, however, are in his moody and magnificent studies of Xochimilco and Taxco, Mexican communities which have beckoned to countless movie makers, but which only a few have answered with genuine eloquence and distinction." Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 563-564.

Locations:

• Teotihuacan, Mexico (Filming)
• Cuernavaca, Mexico (Filming)
• Xochimilco, Mexico (Filming)
• Taxco, Mexico (Filming)

Subjects:

• Locomotion
•      Travel
• Nature
• North America
•      Mexico

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1941: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1942: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1944: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Philadelphia Cinema Club in 1946: Philadelphia, PA

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