# Manos a la Obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap

Title from data sheet

Intended audience: Secondary through college students and adults

Issued also in Spanish

Issued also as videorecording

A documentary on Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," an economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s which was to attract U.S. capital and serve as a model for the Americas. Using newsreels, archival photographs, and excerpts from government propaganda films, examines the background and many problematic issues posed by the plan

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1983
- Runtime: 1 h
- By: City University of New York. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Cinema Guild
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/manosalaobrathestoryofoperationbootstrap)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/manosalaobrathestoryofoperationbootstrap?play=1)