Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool, weaving; children tending sheep; planting and harvesting potatoes; praying to Christian and Indian gods. The owner brings the first tractors to Petaca, plants barley, introduces firing of lime and cutting peat to improve economic production. (Jane M. Loy, Latin American Research Review, vol.12 no.3, 1977)
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High Plain
Series Title: State Department South America Series
Summary:
Description:
Sponsored Film; Life Pattern (Adamson-Seaton Film Classifications)
Country/Location: Bolivia
Tribe or Group: Aymara
Producer: Julien Bryan
Cinematographer: Jules Bucher
Production Company: Julien Bryan
Additional Production: Script by Miriam Bucher; Graphics by Philip Stapp; Music by Norman Lloyd; Narrated by Tony Kraber
Running Time: 20 min.
Years Filmed: 1943
Decade Produced: 1940s
Film Gauge: 35mm
Stock: B&W Nitrate
Footage Count: 699'
Sound: Narrated
Notes: Made for the Federal Government (FDR good neighbor policy). Julien Bryan contracted by FDR administration. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller, in charge of contracting filmmakers to make movies in South America. There are 23 films in the CI-AA series.
