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78 CLASS 1 — Travel, Sports, Manners and Customs
Unit 1 locates the hot deserts of the world and pictures a desert sandstorm, remains of a petrified forest and sagebrush. It contrasts giant and melon cactuses, diagrams the root system of a melon cactus, and shows a traveler getting water from a barrel cactus.
Unit 2. Most unusual views of animal life in an arid land include a Gila monster, a horned toad, desert scorpions, a rattlesnake, a desert tortoise, a prairie dog, a badger, skunks at play, a wild cat, and a coyote.
Unit 3. The nomadic life of the Navajo is shown in winter and summer quarters. The men care for their cattle, while the women perform their daily tasks of carding, spinning, and weaving wool.
392 feet Rental $2.00
1504 Code CARBU Mexico
Eastman Classroom Film
Dealing with typical native life and activities, the film pictures the latent possibilities of Mexico, and also shows its recent progress.
This unit traces the march of civilization within the tropics, and shows that surface structure and geographical location have produced an astonishingly wide range of climate and vegetation in Mexico.
Scenes of cocoanut palms, bananas, oil fields, the drilling, storage, and shipment of oil, the sugar cane industry, and the sisal fiber industr}' in Yucatan, indicate a few of the products of Mexico's tropical lowlands.
Life on a hacienda is compared with that in a provincial town.
Silver mining is pictured. Views of a modern powerhouse and dam show how mountain streams are utilized. Vegetables are gathered from the famous floating gardens. Scenes in Mexico City contrast the old with the new.
398 feet Rental $2.00
1505 Code CARBAR From Haiti to Trinidad
Eastman Classroom Film
Haiti is located on a map of the West Indies; passengers arrive in a local tender; places of interest in Port-au-Prince, native life, and the coflfee industry, are pictured.
In Porto Rico we visit San Juan, the old fortifications, Casa Blanca, Morro, and the Condado Hotel at Santurce.
The extent of the Lesser Antilles is designated on a map, followed by views of leeward shores and sheltered bays, the volcanic island of Martinique, and many scenes of life in the British colony of Barbados.
In Trinidad we see palm-lined shores, the capital city (Port of Spain), and avenues of bamboo. Asphalt is mined, and cane is harvested.
387 feet Rental $2.00
1506 Code CARBER From the Bahamas to Jamaica
Eastman Classroom Film Unit 1 locates the "American Mediterranean," the Lesser Antilles, and various passages and straits; and shows the extent of the Bahamas.
Unit 2 includes views in the harbor and in the city of Nassau, and covers
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