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NON-FICTION HOLDINGS ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN AT THE BFI ARCHIVE

 
ALONG THE PARANA RIVER, SOUTH AMERICA   (1928)   Great Britain
Production company: Pathé Pictorial
Release date 01.01.1928
CINEMAGAZINE. Three items.
 (517ft)
Viewing Copy
 
AU PAYS DU SCALP   (1931)   France
Director: Marquis de Wavrin
Production company: Compagnie Universelle Cinématographique
Documentary
Viewing Copy
 
DANGEROUS JOURNEY   (1944)   USA
Dir.: Armand DENIS and Leila ROOSEVELT
Production company: Twentieth-Century Fox
No Viewing Copy
 
FERRY EASY   (1931)   Great Britain
Production company: First National Pathé
Series title "ODD FACTS from South America"
Viewing Copy
 
IN THE LAND OF THE TOBAS   (1930)   Great Britain
Production company: First National Pathé
(447ft)
Viewing Copy
 
MARCH OF TIME 4TH YEAR NO. 11   (1939)   USA
Production company: Time Inc.
No Viewing Copy
 
RING OF STEEL   (1940)   Great Britain
Producer G.T. CUMMINS
Production company: Ministry of Information and British Paramount News
Viewing Copy
 
SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNEY   (1930)   Great Britain
AMATEUR.
(693ft).
Viewing Copy
 
YELLOW FEVER - SOUTH AMERICA   (1936)   Great Britain
Dir. Malcolm WATSON
Amateur film
Viewing Copy
 

WEST INDIES

 
WEST INDIES - THE PEOPLES AND THEIR PRODUCTS   (1930)   Great Britain
Cinemagazine (359ft, 16mm).
No Viewing Copy
 
WEST INDIES   (1938)   Great Britain
AMATEUR FILM
No Viewing Copy
 
TURTLE FISHING   (1920)
 (178ft). Incomplete.
Viewing Copy
 
MARCH OF TIME 6TH YEAR NO.  5   (1940)   USA
Production company: Time Inc..
Viewing Copy
 
LINER CRUISING SOUTH   (1933)   Great Britain
Dir. Basil WRIGHT and John GRIERSON
Production company: Empire Marketing Board Film
Viewing Copy
 
HELLO! WEST INDIES   (1943)   Great Britain
Dir. John PAGE
Producer: Donald ALEXANDER
Production company: Paul Rotha Prod.
Sponsor: Ministry of Information
(2130ft).
Viewing Copy
 
GOD'S CHILLUN   (1938)   Great Britain
Production company: GPO
 (851ft).
Viewing Copy

MEXICO

VIVA MEXICO (1944) USA
DIR. Frederic ULLMAN
Production company: RKO
Viewing Copy
 
SCREEN SNAPSHOTS SERIES 23 NO. 7   (1944)   USA
Dir. Ralph Staub
Production company: Columbia Pictures.
No Viewing Copy
 
 
MARCH OF TIME 4TH YEAR NO. 12   (1939)   USA
Production company: Time Inc.
Viewing Copy
 
MEN OF THE MOUNTAIN   (1930)
Production company: Pathé Pictures
 (161ft).
Viewing Copy
 
MEXICAN WAR PICTURES   (1913)   USA
Dir. Romaine FIELDING
Production company: Lubin Manufacturing
ACTUALITY
(155ft). Incomplete.
Viewing Copy
 
MEXICAN FILM OF LORD COWDRAY   (1908)   Great Britain
No Viewing Copy

ARGENTINA

INDUSTRIAS ARGENTINAS - SALINAS CHICAS   (1910)   Great Britain
Production company: A. Alexander
Viewing Copy
 (1000ft).
 
SHEEP AND CATTLE - FACTS FOR FARMERS   (1928)   Great Britain
 (900 feet).
No Viewing Copy
 
ZUCKERPFLANZUNG IN ARGENTINA   (1909)
Production company: Eclipse
(308ft). Incomplete.

CHILE

TROUT   (1943)   USA
Production company: RKO
Viewing Copy

BRAZIL

AMAZON; DR HAMILTON RICE   (1926) USA
Dir. Alexander Hamilton RICE
Viewing Copy
 
IN SOUTH AMERICA   (1942)   USA
Dir. Lou LILLY
Production company: Paramount
No Viewing Copy
 
REISE NACH BRASILIEN   (1910)   Great Britain
Production company: Charles Urban Trading Company
(518ft).
Viewing Copy
 
RIVER AMAZON   (1936)   Great Britain
Dir. J. Blake DALRYMPLE
Production company: Elder-Dalrymple Prod.
No Viewing Copy
 
MILLAR PERSONAL FILM 1   (1938)   Great Britain
No Viewing Copy
 
BUILT FOR THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT (1908) Great Britain
ACTUALITY/DOCUMENTARY
(75ft). Incomplete
Viewing Copy

PERU

FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE POTATO COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO THE ANDES 1939   (1939)
 (43mins).
Viewing Copy

BOLIVIA

ACROSS BOLIVIA   (1930)   Great Britain
Dir. Mamento URRIOLAGOITA
Production company: Duguid
Production company: Condor films
No Viewing Copy

GUATEMALA

LAND OF THE EAGLE   (1935)   USA
Production company: Van Beuren
No Viewing Copy
TRAVELOGUE.

PANAMA

PANAMA COLONIES PANAMA CANAL METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY   (1938)   Great Britain
Production company: Methodist Missionary Society
TRAVELOGUE Viewing Copy

ASHORE AT THE ISTHMUS   (1934)   USA

Production company: Panama Pacific Line
 (974 ft)
No Viewing Copy

HONDURAS/ BELIZE

BRITISH HONDURAS   (1918)   Great Britain
 (493ft)
No Viewing Copy
 
GRAPEFRUIT   (1938)  Great Britain
Dir. A. Frank BUNDY
Production company: Gaumont-British Instructional
INSTRUCTIONAL. 
(274 ft). [16mm].
No Viewing Copy

CUBA

URBAN MOVIE CHATS NO.6   (1920)   USA
Production company: Kineto Company of America
Cinemagazine
(832ft)
No Viewing Copy
 
SCENES IN CUBA   (1912)   USA
Production company: Selig Polyscope Company
Travelogue
No Viewing Copy
 
CHARLES URBAN MOVIE CHATS NO. 49   (1921)   USA
Production company: Kineto Company of America
Cinemagazine.
894ft
Viewing Copy

 

The collection also includes a number of newsreels, documenting for example the visit of the Prince of Wales to Argentina and Chile in 1925.
 

FICTION FILM HOLDINGS ON LATIN AMERICA AT THE BFI ARCHIVE

 
MARIA CANDELARIA
Viewing Copy
Dir. Emilio Fernandez, Mexico, 1943
 
TIME IN THE SUN
Viewing Copy
Dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein, Mexico 1939

 

 
 
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