Home Movie: Rick Laubscher Collection: 010417 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Animal cruelty in the form of bullfights.

The people, architecture, landscape and markets of Mexico in the 1930s are at the heart of this reel, created by tourists from San Francisco who take a road trip through southwestern deserts and travel to Mexico City. With photography of the Sonoran Desert on the way, 1930s clothes and cars, and with a visit to Teotihuacan, its Pyramid of the Moon, and the mountains around the city.

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Subjects: 1930s, Tourism, Nature, Agriculture, Cities, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Indigenous history and culture

Tags: scooters; sign Sea Breeze Tourist Village Air Conditioned By Refrigeration; motels; neon signs; desert landscapes; Saguaro; cactus; Sonoran desert ecosystem; reservoirs; dams; photographer onscreen; waving at camera; doffing hat; palm trees; reflections; panoramic views; cornfields; mountains; ox team plowing; oxen; man with ox-pulled plow; posing next to Tropico De Cancer sign; 1930s dresses; 1930s clothing; 1930s cars; women on road trips; rainbows; thatched roof houses; huts; The DZ Turista Camp sign; Mexican children; woman handing child a potato; gas station; Look for the Red Rooster gas station sign; banana trees; boy wearing a corn husk robe; Zocalo; cathedrals; trolleys; buses; balconies; motorcycles; fountains; arenas; Mexico City city center; CDMX; toreadors; bullfighters; horseback riding; bulls; capes; bullfighting ring; animal cruelty; Teotihtuacan; pyramids; Temple of the Moon; Avenue of the Dead; Templo de Quetzalcoatl; Ciudadela; sign; citadel; temples; ruins; stone monuments; vendors; Red and Green Macaws; women climb steep staircase; open air markets; woven blankets; ceramics; foods for sale; outdoor markets; open air markets; firewood; pottery; hat sellers; textiles; crowded market; straw hats; travel and exploration;

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Creator: Laubscher Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Rick Laubscher Collection PC-0078, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1937

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Geographical Location: USA; Arizona; Mexico; California; San Francisco, California; Mexico City; Teotihuacan, State of Mexico

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 308