Title: [Reel 2; Guatemala; 1940] /
Authors: Wagner, Carry, 1896-1992,; Carry Wagner Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Year: 1940
Subjects: Wagner, Carry,; Cruise lines.; Hotels, motels, etc.; Automobiles in motion pictures.; Travel in motion pictures.; Jews, American.; Architecture, Colonial; Cities and towns Guatemala.; Dwellings Guatemala.; Indigenous peoples.; Guatemala Description and travel.; Guatemala Social life and customs.; Guatemala Civilization
Abstract: Home movies recorded by Carry Wagner. Filmed during a trip to Guatemala. 1940 Guatemala 5:02 cityscape with volcano 5:08 Indian girls in market 5:21 parakeet and two girls 5:42 two boys running against wall 5:55 small prop plane- takeoff, coasting, 6:25 five people in courtyard, seated 6:32 woman diving into pool, 6:55 plaza amphitheatre 7:11 cotton candy seller 7:22 sunset cityscape, 8:08 mountain & palm tree seen through archway, 8:11 old churchfront 8:26 train moving down tracks, 8:35 train trestle bridge 8:46 women walking down tracks, vending 8:50 train pulls out of station 9:12 women vendors fruit baskets on head, train station 9:45 Mayan looking sculptures, outdoors 10:48 white men waving hats, hand powered railway cart pulls up 11:20 plantation, palms 11:40 meat hanging on racks 11:44 ship deck scenes 11:51 lone seagull soaring 11:52 four warships 12:03 older women dancing on deck, very exhuberant 12:11 ship at dock, fog shrouded 12:28 United Fruit Co. dock site, Great White Fleet 12:34 baggage; suitcases on dock being loaded 12:40 Carry Wagner, Carl and sister.