Partially dramatized story of the Santa Rosa fundo. There is a careful look at the life style of owners and workers. Scenes of laborers, carts driven by three-horse teams, plowing with oxen, children attending the fundo school, mass on Sunday, and the manor houses provide a vivid introduction to the social and economic community of the estate. (Jane M. Loy, Latin American Research Review, vol.12 no.3, 1977) A contrast of old and new farming methods on one of the large estates in Chile. the "fundo" is a community of hundreds of workers, with its own school and church. Shows a way of life largely unchanged since these estates were founded. A Julien Bryn film. (1950 NYU Film Library catalog)

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