<I>Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1982
name: label: Directed by
content: Olivia Lucia Carrescia, American, born 1944
label: Produced by
content: Olivia Lucia Carrescia, American, born 1944
label: Edited by
content: Olivia Lucia Carrescia, American, born 1944
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: A documentary film with the title Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound.
label: Description
content: The documentary looks at the life of the residents of the Mayan village Todos Santos Cuchumatan in the Guatemalan highlands just before a violent military coup in 1982. Some of the topics discussed in the documentary include the increasing role of cash in the community, which largely consists of subsistent farmers; the Fiesta of Todos Santos celebration, which includes dancing, drinking and a horse race; as well as the mass migration of Todosanteros to Guatemala’s lowlands in search of work on cotton plantations.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place filmed
content: Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Latin America, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Documentary films
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Folklife
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Migrations
label: Topic
content: Social life and customs
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.33.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: color films (visual works)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: polyester film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 37 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 1300 Feet