Focuses on the life of the Guarditas family as representatives of Uruguay's middle class. Shows their house; the father, Manuel, leaving for his work as a woolbroker; the boy at school; the girl doing her homework; the maid cleaning the house; and the mother working in the garden. Gives a very good impression of what middle-class life was like in Montevideo in the 1940's. (Jane M. Loy, Latin American Research Review, vol.12 no.3, 1977)
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Montevideo Family
Series Title: State Department South America Series
Summary:
Description:
Sponsored Film; Life Pattern (Adamson-Seaton Film Classifications)
Country/Location: Uruguay
Tribe or Group: N/A
Producer: Julien Bryan
Cinematographer: Jules Bucher
Production Company: Julien Bryan
Additional Production: Script by Miriam Bucher; Music by Norman Lloyd; Narrated by Julien Bryan
Running Time: 15 min.
Years Filmed: 1943
Decade Produced: 1940s
Film Gauge: 35mm
Stock: B&W Nitrate
Footage Count: 552'
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.
