Winter in Mexico
name: label: Collection Director
content: Porterfield, Jeanne
label: Collection Director
content: Chickering, Lisa
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 7: Films and film-related sound recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2015.16, Subseries 7.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film shot in the early 1970s and released in 1973 representing various attractions and destinations in Mexico during the winter season. Similar activities are often shot in two or three locations, allowing for comparison; these broader categories include tourists enjoying beach and pool resorts, footage of various temples and ziggurats, open air markets, fishing, and dancing. Notable events include Oaxaca's "Night of the Radishes" and Taxco's Blessing of the Animals ceremony, and a rodeo, but the bulk of the footage is quotidian. Footage is devoted to both rural and urban destinations as well as their residents. This film is a travelogue, made to accompany live explanatory lectures by the filmmakers, and as such is missing much identifying information; for example, though panoramic shots of countryside and towns accompany most changes in setting, there is rarely any photographed signage to identify the new location. The film tends toward the informal and humorous and includes footage of the filmmakers themselves.

Locations include: San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Acapulco, Oaxaca, Mazatlan, Pátzcuaro, Ajijic.