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What Drugs Do?
Overdose
Stop Look and Think
Personal Health for Girls (2nd Ed)
Development of the Individual
It's a great day especially when there's 16mm films to watch with friends! Join us! #avgeeks #16mmfilms
What Drugs Do?
Overdose
Stop Look and Think
Personal Health for Girls (2nd Ed)
Development of the Individual
![[Mexico 1974, silent]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GBJIB9IHoic/mqdefault.jpg "[Mexico 1974, silent]
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This footage is a 1970s travelogue through rural and urban Mexico, moving between village life and city scenes. In the countryside, it captures daily labor and domestic routines: women washing and hanging clothes along the shore while children swim, mules and bulls hauling wood and bundled reeds down dirt roads, cattle pulling plows, and men threshing hay by walking animals in circles. Theres an extended sequence at a pottery workshop showing the full process—shaping clay on foot-turned wheels, cutting and lidding the pots, painting, drying, and stacking the finished ware for market. Village settings feature grass-roofed homes, flowering fences, ancient temple and building ruins, and fishing communities with nets draped over poles and small fish spread out to dry. Religious and festival life appears throughout, including crowds gathering with plant leaves to assemble decorations, people crawling on their knees over rugs laid down by children, and elaborate cathedrals and domed buildings. The urban footage shows busy city streets with traffic and horse-drawn carts, office buildings, bustling outdoor markets selling pottery, decorated plates, clay masks, and cloth, and people traveling by rowboat along rivers and canals, sometimes passing an island crowned by a hilltop statue. It closes with musical performances—a woman singing on stage with a band, and another singing while a guitarist plays behind her.")
