Summary

EL SALVADOR

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: EL SALVADOR
File Number: AFP-95AW 16mm; VTM-95AW Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational
Year: 01/01/1954
Description: B W 1954 Educational film about the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador Somewhat scattered in its coverage, the film has scenes of village and country life but no mention of history or politics 00:54:34:00 B W 1954 ws El Salvador, various landscapes and farms also, suspension bridge over canyon at Castaclan (?) 00:55:30:00 B W 1954 ms Farm workers harvesting sisal (or century plant), cutting the stalks with machetes 00:55:52:00 B W 1954 ms, cu Coffee plantation, peasant woman and man picking coffee man struggles to carry heavy load on his back, good image of back-breaking work, Third World labor conditions beans are washed in concrete chutes three men spread coffee beans in the sun 00:58:30:00 B W 1954 ms, cu Sequence, El Salvadoran handicrafts: woman making tiny clay figurines, and painting them ECU folk-art figurines - one looks like Superman 01:00:30:00 B W 1954 ws Oxcarts, peasants and a herd of cattle walk along a dusty stretch of the Pan-American Highway also, road POV shots 01:01:15:00 B W 1954 vs Vocational school, Colegio Santa Cecelia, El Salvador: Priests watch boys exercising in schoolyard teenage boys welding wrought iron others work at wood carving ornately carved and inlaid furniture 01:02:55:00 B W 1954 ws San Salvador, city scenes: Volcano looms over town National Palace car POV through streets, good traffic cop crowds of people leave church shoeshine boy
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