MISSION LIFE

Duration: 20 min

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Revision of 1949 film. Portrays some of the work activities of the missions of Spanish California in 1776. A padre records the events of his mission in his diary, describing the making and laying of adobe bricks, preparing candles on the candle wheel; preparing rawhide; harvesting, threshing, grinding wheat; harvesting corn and making tortillas

Complete Record: Source: Barr rev Interest level: sh-c-ad Price: $120; color $210, rent $9 Format: sd b&w

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)