Film Record: Mexico At Work And At Play

Still image from Mexico at Work and at Play in Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 475.

Date produced: 1948

Filmmaker(s):

Ralph E. Gray

Languages:

English

Length:

1600 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1948 - Honorable Mention
Home Movies' 1948 Annual Amateur Contest

Description:

"Having forsaken the good land of tequila for the gypsy life of a trailerite, Ralph E. Gray presents what may be the last in a long line of distinguished human record films on America's southern neighbor. Mexico At Work And At Play displays recurrently in its many and varied sequences the opulent camera work and warm eye for color which have marked all of Mr. Gray's award winners. Mirrored in the present movie are such native occupations as sugar cane farming and mescal distilling, such handicrafts as glass blowing and opal polishing, such diversions as cock fighting and an Easter Passion Play. Mr. Gray's treatment of these and other colorful subjects is leisurely, loving and methodical." Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 494.

Locations:

• Mexico (Filming)

Subjects:

• Agriculture
• Art and Recreation
• Artisans
• Nature
•      Geography
• North America
•      Mexico

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Movie Makers Club of Oklahoma City in 1949: Oklahoma City, OK
• Screened by the Dayton Amateur Movie Makers Club in 1949: Dayton, OH
• Screened by the Miami Movie Makers Club in 1949: Miami, FL
• Screened by the Omaha Camera Club in 1949: Omaha, NE
• Screened by the Washington Society of Cinematographers in 1951: Washington, D.C.

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