Blue book of audio-visual materials (1920)
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1001 FILMS
77
SOUTH AMERICA
♦Film titles marked with an asterisk (*) have been reviewed and approved by the National Motion Picture Leagrue of New York.
Adam and Eve in the Andes. The Chester-Outing Scenics. According to Bolivian legend, the creation was staged on the Island of the Sun, in Lake Titicaca, some 13,000 feet up in the Andes. Believe it or not, but we went right ahead and investigated the story and it makes a good one.
A Jungle Joy Ride.* Reel, 1; producer, C. E. Chester; exchange, Mutual. Remarks: Chester-Outing No. 13. British Guiana, Indian customs, Patama, preparing tapioca, casava flapjacks, parrots in jungle, large snake, 'shooting the rapids, cataracts, Tumatumari. Cut titles containing "devilishly, etc., and about "Wampire." Fourth grade.
Buenos Aires Fire and Police Department. 1,000 feet. Bulletin No. 18.2. Travel and Geography. Univ. of Wis.
Cataracts of the Iguassa. Jteel, 1. Burton Holmes Travelogue. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation;
Glimpses of Buenos Aires! 1,000 feet. Bulletin No. 48.05. Travel and Geography. University of Wisconsin.
Going Down to Buenos Aires. Reel, 1. Burton Holmes Travelogue. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
Guatemala.* Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Wrorld. Remarks: Modern land of ancient people, city fed by descendants of Aztec, Toltees and Maya Indians, wayside fountains, headdress of the native Indian woman, Indian pottery, matting made of native grass, market place, ancient cathedral partly destroyed by earthquakes; Tortuga, a monument to ancient Indian gods; old gate on road to Antizua, former capital of Guatemala; Old Antizua destroyed by volcano; Agua, a restored cathedral, Mercedes.
La Gudira to Caracas.* Reel, 1; producer, Minneapolis Daily News; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: The capital of Venezuela, street scenes, ride on train to view town, Maiquetia, ascent to a cool altitude .tunnel, houses with thatched roofs, 3,200 feet up on the mountains, donkey pack trains.
Marimba Land.* Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, World. Remarks: A study of the manners and customs of the descendants of the Aztecs in Guatemala.
Public Parks of Buenos Aires; Providence of Tucuman — Sugar Industry. _ 1,000 feet. Bulletin No. 88.2. Travel and Geography. University of . Wisconsin.
Rolling Down to Rio. Reel, 1. Burton Holmes Travelogue. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
' The Cataract of Iquason.* Reel, 1; producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Remarks: Northward from Buenos Aires, falls 50 feet higher than Niagara, Union Falls 215 feet high, on the Brazilian frontier.
The Bottom of the World.* Reel, 1; exchange, RobertsonCole. Remarks: Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic race to the South Pole for scientific research, taking deep sea specimens through eight feet of ice, snow used for drinking water and cooking, frozen seal meat is principal food, penguins, life line stretched from boat, the Endurance frozen in, ship is abandoned, crushed and battered by ice pack, salvaging, provisioning, journey homeward in small boats, dogs working to make trail, camping on piece of ice ten months, Shackleton and companions reach civilization.
Where They Go Rubbering* Reel, 1; producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, State Rights. Remarks: Outing-Chester Picture. Tumatirre, British Guiana, native hut, tiger creek, Mazaruni, the rubber tree, cutting tree in herring-bone fashion to get the juice, cup attached to tree by a piece of clay, preparing the rubber, etc. Educational Films Corporation.