# "MEXICANA" 1940s TRAVELOGUE OF NATION OF MEXICO MEXICO CITY PYRAMIDS TAXCO BULL FIGHT 50144

This black & white educational film "Mexicana" is about the country of Mexico. Copyright is circa the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was made by the Calvin Co. of Kansas City. Opening titles: Little Features presents Mexicana (:07-:18). Mexico City. National Palace. Palace of Fine Arts. Residential districts. Cars go down a boulevard. Chapultepec Castle with a bronze grasshopper statue in the courtyard. People walk around the castle grounds. A man wears a sombrero. Cathedral (:19-2:01). Ancient ruins of the Aztec civilization. Pyramids of the sun and the moon. Outside the pyramids. Modern highways. Natives have their wares strapped to their backs. A man rides a donkey. Oxen teams pull carts. Burrow trains carry fruit and supplies. Taxco is a town in the state of Guerrero, southwest of Mexico City, famed for its silver jewelry production and Spanish colonial architecture. Bell of a cathedral (2:02-3:42). Cobblestone streets. People wash dishes and clothing by a small water inlet. A boy sits near a parrot. A man walks with donkeys. An old method of making wool. Silversmiths at work. Mexican men on a rooftop. People in a marketplace. A little girl drags a pig (3:43-5:13). Rural area. Children play. Hillsides filled with the century plants. An end of the plant can be used for a needle and thread to do primitive, crude sewing. Farming. A man plants corn kernels (5:14-6:29). Plowing the field. Corn, wheat, rye, barley, vanilla and more are grown in Mexico. Farmers and peasants at…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Travel, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/50144-mexicana)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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