Samba
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.1.3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
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content: National Geographic Explorer videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassette (23 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by Steve Burns focuses on preparations for and performance in Brazil's Carnival Samba parade. Film features Samba dancers from the Manguera slums of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, as they prepare for the Samba parade and an interview with the Manguera master of Samba. Scenes include rehearsing for the parade, costume construction, streets and homes of Manguera, and the children's and adult's Samba parade in which 16 Samba schools compete. Manguera inhabitants express conflicting views of Samba as an essential expression of community pride and as an impediment to economic improvement of an impoverished community.