Film Record: Remnants Of The Past

Still image from Remnants of the Past in Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 476.

Date produced: 1948

Filmmaker(s):

Alan Probert

Languages:

English

Length:

500 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1948 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"Alan Probert has confined his study of Mexico to the primitive Otomi Indians. With startling clarity and a fine cinematic eye for detail, he presents the tribal group in a series of sketches that reveal the age old customs of their forefathers still in daily use — sowing and reaping, spinning and weaving, trading and worshipping. Remnants Of The Past is an expertly filmed factual account of the subject, which would have gained considerably from greater unity and a stronger ending." Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 494.

Locations:

• Mexico (Filming)

Subjects:

• Agriculture
• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
• Indigenous peoples
• Religion
• North America
•      Mexico

Genre:

• Ethnographic

Form:

• Short

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