FORGOTTEN VILLAGE

Produced by Mayer and Burstyn in 1941. Written by John Steinbeck. Available only to nonprofit organizations. This is the story of the boy Juan Diego who fights for the new ways of science against the old ways of ignorance and superstition. He fights with all his boyish strength because he has lost one little brother, Paco, to the sickness, colitis, that kills many children in Mexican villages where water is scarce. He fights because he wants to save his little sister from dying too. He knows that only science of the doctors from Mexico City, and not the ancient magic of the Wise Woman, can save little Maria. He wins his fight