In Old Guatemala
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.88
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 337 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for Magic Carpet of Movietone. Film documents the Mayan ruins of Guatemala, a jungle in Guatemala, and places in Surinam. The film shows "Indians" and religious rituals as well as marktplaces. Included are scenes of coffee bean picking and processing. Following are scenes shot in Surinam: Javanese and Balinese immigrants are shown dancing their traditional dances with crowds watching and street life in a Surinam city.  The narrator discusses the fallen Mayan empire, the plight of the "Indians" and the immigration of the southeast Asians to Surinam. 

Legacy Keywords: Rituals religious ceremony ; Jungles ; Ecology ; Archeology Maya ; Ruins Maya ; Dance ; Coffee plantations ; Emigration and immigration ; Marketplaces