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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 This 1962 film was photographed by Willard C. Hahn and produced by Paul Louis Hoefler who made academic films for the classroom from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. The film displays the ancient cities of Chichen Itza and Uxmal as well as the lifestyle of the living descendants of the Mayans in the film opens with a shot of a Mayan temple in Mexico (0:07). Carved animal head from the Mayan civilization (0:14). Mayan ruins (0:19). Mayan reliefs (0:25). Map of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula (0:33). Mayan building with carvings and reliefs (0:38). Doorway to ancient Mayan structure (0:49). Indigenous woman with a flower in her hair (0:55). Mayan woman with necklace (1:02). Mayan man working (1:13). Mayan village with small huts and with three women walking down the street carrying something on their heads (1:16). Woman wearing white traditional dress and carrying a pot (1:27). Two Mayan women in front of their home that has a thatch roof and bamboo (1:35). House with thatch roof and children playing out (1:44). Entrance into contemporary Mayan house (1:55). Women pulling up a bucket of water (1:59). Mayan woman washes clothes (2:07). Mayan woman making tortillas (2:17). Woman with two pots makes a flavored drink with cacao (2:32). Young boy drinks out of a bowl (2:45). Mayans walking around in white garments and black head coverings at the village market (2:54). Woman begins making a straw hat (3:08). Mayan woman picks up a woven hat (3:24). Woman making pottery with her hands (3:32). Mayan clay kitchenware (3:44). Boy making clay ornaments (3:48). Two women weave with wool and cotton (4:00). Map of the Peninsula of Yucatan (4:23). Green flat plain in the Yucatan Peninsula (4:35). Red car with a white roof drives down the road (4:41). Field full of the sisal plant (4:51). Man harvesting the sisal plant (5:02). Harvested leaves from sisal plants loaded up into carrying cars (5:11). Tractor takes the harvested leaves away from the farm (5:23). Conveyer belt lifts harvested sisal leaves (5:25). Mayan man separates fiber (5:36). Man assorts the fiber (5:42). The paste from the sisal leaves is dumped into a large container (5:49). Large containers of the paste are pulled along by a donkey (5:53). Fibers are laid out under the sun to dry (5:58). Fibers are assorted by laborers (6:07). Old pier by the ocean (6:17). Map with the town Progreso pointed out (6:26). Large trucks driving across a bridge (6:35). Sisal being placed on a ship (6:43). Men cut fish (6:55). Panorama of Merida (7:17). Merida town center (7:37). Man on carriage pulled by horses (7:53). Boy rides a bike and a girl walks through a door (7:59). Elephant sculpture (8:06). Sculpture of a dwarf (8:18). Woman sitting in chair and boy assisting her (8:22). Beetle called the maquech decorated with gold jewelry and kept on a gold chain crawls on woman’s dress (8:25). Chichén Itzá ruins (8:55). Vegetation in the country (9:15). Buildings from Chichén Itzá (9:26). Great pyramid and temple of Kukulkan (also known as El Castillo) in Chichén Itzá (9:40). Temple of the warriors (9:58). Ring that was a goal for a popular game that was similar to basketball (10:21). Ancient stadium (10:32). Ancient observatory (10:38). Vegetation in Yucatan (11:04). Human sacrifice altar (11:18). Cartoon of the Mayan god of corn, Yum Kush (11:31). Men discuss plans at a field (11:46). Archeologist digs in field (11:52). Temple mound (11:58). Two archeologists look at paper with a field behind them (12:06). Two men begin the excavation of a mound (12:27). Surveyors take measurements (12:40). Archeologists reconstruct temple (12:55). A reconstructed temple (13:41). Carved animal face (14:16). 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
