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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Made in the late 1920s or early 1930s as part of Kodak's educational film library, this silent Eastman Classroom Film takes the viewer around Mexico. It begins with a short history of the cradle of civilization along the tropics, followed by an explanation of the unique climate zones of Mexico based on their different altitude. It shows resources in the different regions such as oil, sugar cane, cattle farming, sisal fiber, silver mining, and hydroelectricity production. There are also shots of daily life in small and medium sized towns. Finally, it ends in Mexico City, with some stunning shots of the Catedral Metropolitana de Mexico, street life, and the Chapultepec Park. 0:09 Title “Eastman Classroom Films – Mexico”, 0:15 Catedral Metropolitana de Mexico, 0:25 Pyramid of the un, 0:44 a spinning relief globe with a black shadow showing the tropics and highlights several cradles of civilization like Indo China, India, Africa, Peru, and Mexico, 1:59 Pyramid of the Sun, 2:12 a church with snow covered mountains in the background, 2:20 relief map of Mexico with animations of the winds, 2:36 steps animation used to show the different climate zones of Mexico and what grows there, 3:56 a farmer tending to banana trees, 4:07 Oil rigs pumping oil, 4:30 two employees completely covered in oil, 4:46 large oil storage tanks and pipelines leading it to transport ships, 5:04 a Sisal Fiber farm in Yucatan, 5:15 employees processing the cut sisal plants into fiber, 5:57 a sugar cane farm with farmers harvesting it, 6:13 sugar cane being processed into sugar, 6:32 cows on a farm, 6:48 a cattle rancher on a horse, 6:58 street view of a small rural farm town, 7:14 woman making dough by hand, 7:48 different scenes from rural life including a woman washing clothes, a man inspecting cacti, a man and a woman weaving, men making baskets, a man preparing a cow to plow a field, 9:12 a street market in a provincial town, 9:32 a young girl stitching a pattern into a piece of cloth, 9:51 women doing laundry, 10:10 men and donkeys walking uphill, 10:22 a small train driving down the tracks at a silver mine, 10:42 silver ore being crushed in a machine, 10:58 melted ore being poured into forms, 11:13 different angles of a large damn including the water pipes, 11:41 power lines running through the landscape as the country electrifies, 11:51 busy street life in front of the Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City, 12:31 a woman writing on a typewriter as men watch, 12:52 a cop directing traffic, 13:08 different shots of the floating gardens including gardeners harvesting water plants, 13:51 overview over a large avenue, 14:02 women in fancy dresses, 14:25 the National Theater, 14:28 scenes from Chapultepec Park. Film ends with a title card, “Property of the Board of Education of New York.“ Perhaps we should return it? We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
