# \[Home movie: Recovering American and Puerto Rican Narratives from the Caribbean, Seville, Barcelona, Andorra, Portugal\]

Synopsis A home movie by Carmen Vázquez and Antonio Vázquez about their trip to Spain, Andorra and Portugal. They document their visit to Alcáraz in Seville, Spain, and also record a full bullfight in the city. There is footage of them in Barcelona before arriving in Andorra. They explore the towns and rural zones of the country and then travel via train to Portugal, where they visit a vineyard and see another bullfight. Collection description This film (Heydari_0018) is part of the collection Recovering American and Puerto Rican Narratives from the Caribbean . This media belongs mainly to the Vázquez family. Much of the footage was captured by Lt. Col. Juan Vázquez, and his family. He acquired movie and photo cameras during his military career and on the way to the Korean War, where he was a commander with the Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG). He had also been with the decorated Borinqueneers (65 de Infantería) regiment, and then returned to Puerto Rico. His was one of the first citizen movie cameras on the island. Lt. Col. Vázquez was given the honor of being the translator and liaison for President Franklin Roosevelt when he visited Puerto Rico in the 1930s. There are Army brass and political figures in the material. His son Dennis Vázquez also served in the Army, specifically in Vietnam and he testified in the My Lai trial. Carmen Vázquez is the family historian and has done a good job of archiving and preserving the media, and over generations added to the…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1974
- By: Carmen Vázquez
- Genres: Travel
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Heydari_0018)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- 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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