CHILE

Year Published: 1920s

Description:

This late 1920s or (more likely) early 1930s silent film was one of a series created by Eastman Kodak as part of a classroom educational series. It shows everyday life in several areas of Chile in South America. Not only are the largest Chilean cities shown, and their main attractions, but also the different occupations and ways of life in the rural areas. A large part of the film shows footage of the main focuses of the Chilean economy, such as agriculture, and on the main trade exports of the time like the Nitrate and Copper industries. It is not clear who took the footage, but this particular print has an end credit indicating that it was once property of the Board of Education of the City of New York!

00:13 Illustration of a map of the tip of Chile 00:22 An illustration of a circle drawn around South Chile 00:40 Circle of a section of the map, South Chile, with a latitude line drawn at the top and bottom of the circle 00:48 View of lake with people walking alongside it on a path and a mountain in the background 00:54 A wide river surrounded by forests with a snowy mountain in the background 1:16 Passengers on a boat leaning out and waving at the camera 1:36 Views of mountains along the shoreline from the sea 1:59 View of settlements in a rural landscape alongside a body of water 2:22 Man working on a wooden canoe with an indigenous women and child next to him 2:31 Indigenous women in traditional dress weaving a basket with child next to her 2:46 Text: ‘Lumbering’ 2:48 A group of men working to cut down a tree 3:03 Cattle in rows of two yoked together hauling a tree stump 3:10 Sheep in wood fenced enclosures 3:37 Sheep being sheered 3:56 Illustrated map of Chile 3:58 Illustrated circle drawn around a section in the top left of the map 4:07 Circle of a section of the map, North Chile, with a latitude line drawn at the top and bottom of the circle 4:28 A crane in an copper mine 5:17 Men working in a factory (copper?) 5:32 A street scene in Antofagasta, Chile 5:52 Pallets of copper ready for transport 6:04 Workers mining Nitrate 6:22 Hands holding a piece of Nitrate then breaking it into dust 6:51 Nitrate ore being transported down a chute 7:00 Nitrate coming through a funnel and being put into a canvas sack labelled ‘Lautaro’ 7:42 Illustrated map of Chile with a circle drawn around the central section 7:58 Circle of the map of central Chile with a latitude line drawn at the top and bottom of the circle 8:44 View of a mountain peak in the Andes mountain range 9:02 View of the Chilean Central Valley 9:22 Men working in a wheat field 9:31 Cattle pulling a large load of dried wheat 9:50 Men working in a vineyard with baskets on their heads 10:12 A women with a scarf on her head picking grapes 10:43 Wine bottles being filled with wine using a vintage machine 11:09 Footage of four cows in rows of two yoked together pulling a covered down a street in Santiago, Chile 11:22 A narrow park in between two main roads (now Bandejón Central de la Alameda) 11:30 Side view of Biblioteca Nacional de Chile 11:34 Avenida de las Delicias in Santiago 11:41 Flower market on the street 11:45 Exterior of Club Hipico de Santiago 11:58 Laguna del Parque Forestal in front of Museo de Bellas Artes 12:03 Gallery with marble statues in Museo de Bellas Artes 12:14 An studio with art students painting on easels 12:25 Main entrance to Cerro Santa Lucía 12:36 Two men looking out on a vista of Valparaiso, Chile 12:43 City street in Valparaiso 12:47 Main avenue/boulevard in Valparaiso 13:03 Horse laden with goods being led up a hill by a man 13:16 Man unpacking goods from a basket on a horse 13:36 view of train tracks going into a series of  tunnels 13:56 Men working with machinery on a mountain pass (clearing snow?) 14:18 Views of the Christ the Redeemer of the Andes 14:29 End Credits: Property of the Board of Education of the City of New York