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ARGENTINA, INCLUDING ARGENTINIAN PERSONS

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221497          11:15:22 - 11:19:25            1919/20        B/W    SIL

INCLUDING:

1:18:23  High angle of massive crowd through streets, w/ British & flags of various nations including US.  Banner in Spanish.  MCU of marchers; MCU of flags.  NOTE:  relating to Argentina accepting League of Nations.

11:19:03

 

221207          22:00:00 - 22:00:54            1930s Sil

including:

22:00:42  Buenos Aires, Argentina flash frame title

Refinery & various refining tanks.

 

LN 501-725  04:31:19 - 04:39:43            ca 1935; ca 1936 ca 1937;  SD        B/W   

Argentina (German)              

[German Colonies In South America, 1935 - 1937]  R1 of 4  (Clips)
Youth blowing horns w/ banners hanging.  Flash title re NSDAP program.  Supered money over car, home.
04:31:42  Crates of fruit; wine display.  German & spanish windows, signs, swastika, Jugueteria Graf Zeppelin; car dealership; Bayer company entrance.  Opel car; Robert Bosch S.A., AEG Agfa Argentina; Siemens building; Thyssen & steel being hoisted.  Deutsche La Plata Zeitung Diario newspaper; Banks: Banco Aleman Transtlantico, Banco Germanico.  German swastika flags flying. 
04:34:20  Radio sign Deutscher Deine Heimat Spricht Zu Dir, pan to Nazi photograph.  Sign:  NSDAP Auslandorganisation Landesgruppe Argentinia, superimposed over hands signing, filing & handling paperwork for mailings promoting German cultural life.  Theater poster.  Rancher & books.
04:35:28  Montage of young men in trunks running, calisthenics, gymnastics, boxing, broad jump, shot put, runners, dressage horseback riders.
04:36:10  Long rows of men in white shirts, black ties at attention.  Two leaders wearing swastika armbands.
03:36:22  Young men out of tents, in uniforms, line up, march off.  Girls at camp in uniforms; peeling apples wearing shirts w/ Nazi wings, cooking, painting, sewing, gardening.
04:37:20  DKW car at docks, tilt up to German flag on ship stern.  Crew on deck in German uniforms.  Off ship in blazers & ties. 
04:37:45  CU Deutche la Plata Zeitung w/ Hitler picture.  Advertisements or announcements of German activities.
04:38:07  CU  Swastika inside gear wheel.  Men, workers, & boys at attention.  One man w/ sledge hammer over shoulder.  Others w/ German flags at attention including nurses.  Girls choir or ??  CUs men & women.
04:38:39  LS of hall w/ spectators, swastikas & boys w/ drums at front below workers posing.
04:38:53  Wheel thru mud.
04:38:55  slug
04:38:57  Men poling boat; men on riverbank waving & musicians playing guitar, accordion, violin etc.  Greet man from boat, Nazi salutes.  Pan over luggage & camera gear on riverbank.
04:39:24  Horses out of corral.
04:39:27  Man spraying tree.
04:39:32  Man arrives in twenties car at German farm (?), greeted by road & salutes exchanged.  Car across grassy flat valley.
German Settlement; South America; Promotional Documentary; Propaganda; Patriotism; Heritage; Colony; Ethnic;
NOTE:  This reel is nearly complete but has slugs & clips removed.  GOOD material & shots.

LN 501-725  04:39:52 - 04:44:20            1935- 1937; SD        B/W   

Argentina (German)              

[German Colonies In South America, 1935 - 1937]  R2 of 4  (Clips)
POV on boat on slow flowing river, view by captain at wheel.  CU face.  Wake on shore.  Man throws note, mail, attached to rod to man on shore by stack of logs; other notes to shore.  Man & woman reading, dissolve to village scene w/ carts, farming behind horses, grain blowing, view of medieval buildings & Bavarian town.
04:41:29  Men building house by banana tree; wheel barrow past large house.  Large teams of horses working field, harrowing, plowing, clearing jungle land.  CUs.
04:42:49  Truck up dirt road thru jungle.  Trucks across cleared land, some palm trees left.  Jungle, dissolve to men cutting large trees.  man inspects large log; oxen pulling along road on cart.  Sawmill & lumber stacked drying.  Steam engine operating w/ man feeding wood slash into firebox.  Sawing planks from small trunks.
04:44:09  German name signs on tree trunks.  Shoemaker hammering.
German Settlement; South America; Promotional Documentary; Propaganda; Patriotism; Heritage; Colony;
Ethnic;
NOTE:  This reel is nearly complete but has slugs & clips removed.  GOOD material & shots.

LN 501-725  04:44:34 - 04:53:22            1935- 1937; SD        B/W   

Argentina (German)              

[German Colonies In South America, 1935 - 1937]  R3 of 4  (Clips)
Oxen team pulling wagon w/ man riding standing, pan to wooden house w/ shake roof & shutters.  Hitler picture w/ flowers & German sign.  Swastika on door, man arrives on horseback, opens door & salutes.  Pictures of Hitler & von Hindenburg on wall below eagle & swastika, tilt up to German sign on wall.
04:45:14  People ride up to barnyard; man out of barn & salutes.  Tilt down jungle hillside to river bank & Nazi Youth w/ banner walking along on nature hike.  Overlooking Iguazu Falls from various points w/ boys & banner seen.  Water at top over falls, rapids.
04:47:40  Boys resting at campfire beside small stream. 
04:47:52  Several boys & girls on horseback leave cabin w/ books for school, on group from woods, other from farm.  Others riding along trail, some walking.  Arriving at school & greeting teacher.
04:48:42  Pan around interior of school w/ photos of leaders.  Man in front of class w/ boys on one side of room & girls on other; reciting. 
04:49:17  Outside of adobe brick school w/ kids dancing in circle to accordion player; then singing in choir robes.  Violinist playing w/ Hohner accordion player, some boys playing harmonicas.
04:50:50  Teacher writing German on blackboard, children watch.  Write w/ pen & paper at desk. 
04:51:19  Accordion player w/ choir singing.  CUs.  Teacher conducting.  Tilt up to German & Argentinian flags on poles on schoolhouse roof.
German Settlement; South America; Promotional Documentary; Propaganda; Patriotism; Heritage; Colony;
Ethnic; Music; Singing; Elementary School.
NOTE:  This reel is nearly complete but has slugs & clips removed.  GOOD material & shots.

LN 501-725  04:53:32 - 05:01:35            1935 - 1937;            SD        B/W   

Argentina (German)              

[German Colonies In South America, 1935 - 1937]  R4 of 4  (Clips)
Pan across sign Colegio Aleman & down to children entering in smocks.  Boys playfully boxing; kids running out & into wagons, down road home.  Argentinian & German flags on top of building.  Pan across small town buildings to sign Cine Union Deutscher Tonfilm & Dortrags Abend w/ program.
04:54:26  Car w/ banner for German film & luggage strapped to roof arriving at farm village.  Small rocket fired.  Men taking bundles of straw into building; nailing branches to wall, hanging swastika banners.  People in suits & dresses on carriages leaving.
04:55:24  Truck w/ back of colonists / settlers riding to Horst Wessel (?) festival.  Trucks of people, including bands, horseback riders, wagons, carts arriving.  People on boats arrive, men poling canoes.  Salutes.
04:57:33  German sheet music:  Alte Kamrraden.  Brass band playing w/ children & adults watching.  CUs of musicians & spectators crowded into room.  Pan over empty cars, wagons, horses men outside looking thru window, one pulls back coat to show pistol & bullets.
04:58:50  Int. w/ movie screen, people watching.  Man threading projector; generator outdoors.  Movie on screen of Nazis marching.  Hitler speaking SOF, gesturing.  People watching intently.
05:00:09  Settlers applauding.  Hitler Seig Heil.
05:00:17  View from river of large hut on river; shots of other settlements in Argentina.  Pan across farm buildings on riverbank & POV from boat on river.   The End.
German Settlement; South America; Promotional Documentary; Propaganda; Patriotism; Heritage; Colony;
Ethnic; Music; Settlers; Motion Pictures; Movies;
NOTE:  This reel is nearly complete but has slugs & clips removed.  GOOD material & shots.

220885          02:10:22 - 02:10:54            1936   B/W    SD       

Roosevelt Feted on the Way Home From Argentine
After the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of  Peace in Buenos Aires,
Tug boats escorting Presidents ship.  FDR waving from deck.  Press.  Unid. man kisses FDR in welcome.  FDR rides in open top car - FBI on running boards.  Crowds running to keep up with car.

220466        02:07:25 - 02:08:04            1938   B/W    Sil

500,000 Argentinos In Anti-Dictator Parade

Huge crowds parade in the public square. Organizations carry banners. People from windows and balconies wave and throw confetti. Demonstrators walk slowly down main street linking arms, crowds waving flags. Groups of women in demonstration carrying huge flag - flowers thrown in. 

 

220668          19:19:56 - 19:30:51            1939 - 1941 B/W    SD       

Why We Fight - War Comes To America - Compilation film.   Reel 5
INCLUDING:
19:25:09 Brazil - German residents -  children taught in German schools.  Glider club.  Japanese residents of Brazil. 19:25:32 Ecuador - German aircraft. 19:25:43 Argentina - German sports club

220590        17:23:54 - 17:25:40            1943   B/W    Sd

Argentine Army Revolt Removes Pro-Axis President

Army units take over government buildings, President Castillo. Army and military equipment on streets. Artillery on street corners. Exterior of Navy School for Mechanics - damaged building. Riots - buses burning - crowds running.  Army leaders of revolution General Rawson and General Ramirez appear on balcony in Plaza de Mayo. Crowds gathered.

 

221307        11:27:30 - 11:40:42            1943   B/W    SIL

News Parade of The Year 1943

INCLUDING:

11:33:55  Title:  Argentina Revolts - army overthrows pro-Nazi government.  People tip over buses & set afire, riot in square outside govt. buildings. 

11:34:34

 

221187        22:27:34 - 22:40:41            1944c B/W    Sd

The Bridge  Pt 1 of 2  (title missing)

Documentary on South America & the war effort during WWII

INCLUDING:

Map showing shipping trade between South America & Europe.  Vars wrecked / junked cargo ships. 

22:28:10  Cotton bales unloaded by South Americans; warehouses filled w/ cotton & coffee crops, more than can be used at home & cant be sent to Europe due to War.  Cattle herd on open plains, wheat processing. Surplus corn stored outdoors in huge piles.  Argentinian corn used as fuel in factory furnaces, blacksmith burning corn on forge. 

22:30:23

 

X          221227          12:12:47 - 12:25:54            1940s SD        COL                             

Pan-American Highway  [Part 2 of 2]
INCLUDING:

12:14:37  La Paz, Bolivia - street scenes.  Farming w/ oxen.  Highway thru mountains towards Buenos Aires.  Nitrate mining.  Rocky Pacific shore.  Farming w/ tractor - VO re gradual change from primitive farming methods.  High pan across lush valley - view of Santiago, Chile from high observation point - street scenes - parks & traffic.  Highway moves east thru foothills of Andes - dramatic mountain scenery.  Bronze Christ of the Andes statue at Chilean-Argentinian border. 
12:19:33  Cattle farm in pampas / flatlands - gaucho / cowboy on horseback throws lasso-like device.  Sheep herd.  Colourful sunset.  PoV along two-lane Highway to Buenos Aires.
12:20:56  Buenos Aires street scenes - Atlantic shore - cargo ships at dock.  Uruguay - Montevideo street scenes.  Towns & villages on highways route to Brazil - VO people are largely of the White race.  Curtiba, Brazil - street scenes.  Highway construction north of Curtiba - tractors & bulldozers shifting earth.12:23:47

 

221712          08:54:37 - 09:04:06            1942; SD        COL      Titles
08:54:50  Zoom in on Argentina on map of South America, title But the first stop is Buenos Aires.
08:55:01  Pan across rooftops; MCU of tiled roof patio of modern concrete building w/ laundry hanging on line; side of apartment house w/ shades pulled against sun, tilt down to sidewalk & people walking past.  View of old ornate building tops & church spires, clock tower.
08:56:01  Map showing route south & across Patagonia; Map of Nahuel Huapi National Park on border w/ Chile.
08:56:21  MCU of poppies in bloom on lake shore, tilt up Andes Mountains.  Pan ridges, snowfields, glaciers.
08:57:32  Ducks nesting on shore of lake; woman tourist feeding them from pan.
08:57:59  Young boys & girls milking cow; two girls sit on cow in corral, play w/ calf.  Gaucho milking cow, moving cattle from pen.  Feeding pig at trough. 
08:59:43  LS of snow covered peak; mcu of waterfalls from glaciers. 
09:00:10  Hikers crossing rocky dry river bed to basin below waterfall; viewed.  Woman drinking from stream; others w/ camera picking wild strawberries at foot of glacier.  CU eating berries; playing catch w/ chunk of ice.
09:01:34  Mt. Tronador, The Thunderer, & glacier moraine; woman walks across.  Clouds blowing across snow field.
09:02:14  Woman scrambling over rocks to edge above waterfall. 
09:02:30  Avalanche from glacier breaking over cliff down snowfield towards camera.  GOOD.
09:02:45  Women climb up rocky moraine, seen from above; climbing down rocks & throw snowballs.
09:03:23  Looking up snowy ridge.
09:03:34  Argentine woman beside logs heating kettle & drinking from cup w/ straw.  End credits: Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
1940s; 1942; South American Mountain Range; Kodachrome Color;

221547        14:18:44 - 14:19:23            1949   B/W    Sil

Argentina  (Military Parade Celebrating New Constitution Adopted)

Pan over enormous crowds; people waving, marching.  People held back by police & soldiers.  High angle.

14:19:13  Soldiers marching in review w/ bayonets on rifles.  High angle of crowd & parade.

 

LN 505-093  03:16:13 - 03:25:27            1951   B/W    Sd

INCLUDING:

03:23:32  Montage manufacturing w/ pro-trade VO - nylon weaving in US; Indian rug weaving; welding in shipyard; Indian textile factory; Australian ranch; Danish pig farming; Argentinian meat factory; Swedish machine parts.   Street scenes in US & elsewhere.  Captain on deck - ...thats what I mean about trade, the more of it there is, there better it is for you and me and everyone else. Were all in the same boat, and she sails steadiest when shes [weighed?] down and full steam ahead.

 

221085        11:08:11 - 11:11:16            1953   B/W    Sil

[Bombing & Rioting In Buenos Aires & Aftermath]

Destruction caused by Military Coup to overthrow Juan Peron, Sep55 [?]  Fires from massive car bombing or shelling - wreckage of vehicles.  Jet seen flying over rooftops.  Burning cars.  Civilians hanging from van.  Wounded, bloody man walked past cars.  Damaged car with white flag out door.  Bodies among wrecked cars.  Fire hoses.  Crowds torching official building & people leaving.

11:10:14  Aftermath: crowds outside burned-out Ministry of Housing with pocked marked walls from bullets or shells.  City rooftops - steel skeleton of gutted cathedral dome.  Brief shot of troops running through street.

South America.  Dictators.  Anti-Peronists.  Coup dEtat.  Revolution.

 

221085        11:14:20 - 11:18:50            1955   B/W    Sil

 [Argentina Revolt & Damage - Troops]

People parade through streets on buses & trucks waving flags.  Marchers, banners.  Police try to control.  [Juan Peron overthrown.]

11:14:58  Damage from aerial bombings with bullet holes, roofless factories.  Destroyed sheet metal roofs. Courtyard & military barracks.

11:15:39  Soldiers pose with anti-aircraft guns & rifles in trucks & troop carriers.  Troops with field machine guns.  In field with pistols, rifles, etc. 

11:16:32  Men off ships, carrying boxes.  Stretchers w/ wounded carried to truck & ambulance.   Troops boarding ferry boat.  Looking into military camp [?] over wall.  VIPs on crowded balcony above main plaza of Buenos Aires read statement - military junta ?;  masses of people in plaza waving handkerchiefs & carrying large flags & banners.

 

221085        11:18:54 - 11:20:50            1955   B/W    Sil

[Argentina - Lonardi Government Sworn In]

Sep55  Swearing-in ceremony for Argentine military VIPs inside government building after Juan Peron deposed: vars members of military junta [?] at mic being sworn into cabinet - hands placed over Bible.  Many photographers.  New Argentine President Eduardo Lonardi sworn in ?

 

221550        19:19:52 - 19:20:34            1959   B/W    SD

Washington, D.C.  (Argentina President Frondizi Arrives, 1959)

19:19:53  Down airplane ramp & greeted by President Eisenhower & Sec.of State Dulles & miltary generals.

19:20:14  Press photographers & cameramen under tent shelter; motorcade leaving airport hanger.

19:20:19  Presidents & wives posing before formal State dinner, MCU.

 

221547          13:09:34 - 13:10:16            1960   B/W    Sd

Argentina  (Penguins On Nests & Rocky Island, 1960)

Penguins on rocky island; MCU pair; groups w/ young in downy feathers; very young in nest.

13:10:01  Walk, group runs to water & swimming. k Many in water.

Birds; Migration; Nesting; Southern Hemispher; 1960; Rookery

 

221508          04:40:56 - 04:41:48            1960   B/W    SD

Sports - Argentina (Skiing, 1960)

Andes, clouds, skiers on open slopes; over top of camera.  Small jumps & falls.

Winter Sports; Southern Hemisphere; South America

 

220919          02:14:20 - 02:15:14            1962   B/W    Sd

News in Brief - Argentina

22Mar62 Queues outside polling station for Argentine elections; President Arturo Brondizi arrives to vote; Brondisi humiliated at the polls by exiled dictator Juan Peron; elections declared void by Brondisi at urging of military; forms new half-civilian half-military cabinet, prompting a general strike.

 

220293        13:14:47 - 13:16:30            1962   B/W    Sd

Argentine Crisis - Frondizi Jailed, Military rules

Military coup - Navy and army leaders arrive to arrest Frondizi - interiors government building with crowds - crowds on street demonstrating - troops patrolling streets - armed military on balconies - Frondizi get on plane ( not seen ) - aircraft take off - AV  prison island in river Platte. Guido - New President takes office.

 

221088        15:05:56 - 15:06:43            1967   B/W    Sd

Argentina

Crown Prince Akahito & wife weekend guests at cattle ranch outside Buenos Aires - seated at outdoor banquet & watch bucking bronco display by Gaucho cowboys - one performer shakes hands w/ Prince.  Many photographers & dignitaries present.

 

X          221616          18:00:00 - 18:12:27            1989   COL      SD       

[Argentina - La Plata, 28Oct89]  Pesticides
Tape 21 section.  Argentinian man in strawberry field w/ handpump sprayer on back spraying single row away from camera, towards camera on windy day.  CUs of face, hands, sprayer.
18:03:24  Another spraying on plowed field w/ hand sprayer.  Pan back to first man in original closer field.
18:04:23  Swish pan to other fellow walking past, behind, poles for climbing plants & spraying.  Strawberry sprayer.
18:05:04  Yard w/ fire box.
18:05:14  Pull back from spraying strawberries to yard w/ trash outside workers huts.
18:05:52  CU.   Interview in yard asking worker if how he know how & when he has to spray.  He explains.
Stopped interview on LN 501-749 copy at 00:07:30.
18:07:35  Tape 24 section.  Low flying mono wing spray plane, pulling up overhead & circling.  Away from camera & circling, pulling up.  Return run very low & puling up.  More runs.
18:09:12 - 18:09:41  glitches.
00:09:41- 00:  Spraying continues from various angles; seen from side.
Insecticides; Poisons; Safety; Agricultural Dangers; Agriculture; 1980s; 1989; South America; Farming; Aerial Spraying; Hazards; Pesticides;

X          221616          18:12:34 - 18:33:10            1989   COL      SD       

[Argentina, ??Oct89]  Pesticides - Tractor & Hand Spraying
Man on FIAT tractor w/ spray rig mounted behind on hydraulic lift; man into field, extends spray arms & tightens in place.  Pulling into lettuce (?) field & spraying.  MCU of nozzles & arms.  Returning towards camera.  Not wearing protection.
18:16:13  Folding arms of spray rig & leaving field on dirt road.
18:17:51  CU & MS parking spray rig in farm yard & dropping from tractor in farmyard.  View of tank sitting in weeds.
18:19:12  CU man washing hands & arms w/ soap under tap outside porch of house.  Goes into house.
18:20:06  Ext. of large building w/ signs on outside, CU:   Agroquimica. Man putting large bags of ?/ in back of pickup truck.  Sign in window of supply store:  MSD AGVET.  LS. 
18:21:39  CU cardboard carton w/ label Tedion; laying in grass or weeds.  Large red louse on label.  CU label Rhodia on bag in weeds near Agroquimica parking lot.
18:23:02    Small brick farmhouse (?) near fields.
18:24:00  LS & CUs of older man w/ backpack hand sprayer spraying rows of peppers or ??.  Man brings folded note paper (?) to him.
18:26:49  CU mixing chemicals.  Pouring water into sprayer from small can; pouring in capful of ?? from small bottle.  Washing hands in concrete cistern & dipping water in bucket to fill tank.  Leaving chemical bottle on side of water tank.  Back in field spraying; takes off tank.  Goes back & washes off hands & arms in cistern & scrubs edge where spilled.  Washes face in same water; walks to house.  Takes off shoes before going in.  CU backpack sprayer in field.
18:31:50  Ext. Cooperativa Bon...  w/ farm supplies:  seeds, fertilizer, sprays etc.
18:32:30  Int.  Man buying supplies from clerk at counter.  Weighing small amount of ?? & stapling in envelope.
Insecticides; Poisons; Safety; Agricultural Dangers; Agriculture; 1980s; 1989; South America; Farming; Aerial Spraying; Hazards; Pesticides;

X          221614          14:00:00 - 14:48:27            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[El Pato, Quinta Molina, Argentina; Quinta Nunez, 25Oct89; San Pedro, Argentina 26Oct89]
LS, MS, CUs  25Oct89  El Pato, Quinta Molina, Argentina.  Early morning, fog & field workers picking / cutting & trimming lettuce; put into crates.
14:10:30  Workers hoeing small plants (tomatoes?; beans?) between rows of poles, telephoto shot of very long field & line of poles
14:13:20 - 14:17:04  25Oct89  MCU Quinta Nunez.  Man talking to camera (Spanish, SOF):  (talking about using motorized cultivation vs hand labor?)  GOOD FACE.
14:17:04  CUs hoeing, faces of group of men, hands pulling weeds.
14:18:56  LS & pan across field of beans to workers picking & packing crates.  Worker carries crate & CU of crate of large beans
14:19:41  Women harvesting beans.
14:20:25  Four men picking beans, pan to others.  CUs.  MSs  Men & women.
14:27:06  Woman carrying large basket of beans to edge of field, daughter greets her.  Pours beans into crate.
14:27:57  CU & woman interviewed as she picks.
14:29:28  end.
14:29:37  26Oct89  San Pedro, Argentina.  Field crew of six orchard workers thinning fruit.  CUs, MSs, LSs.
14:34:58 - 14:40:42  CU man interviewed about thinning fruit & ???
14:40:42  Shelves w/  containers of agriculture chemicals:  Linurex (pesticide); Nutramin (animal food supplement); Tecto (liquid fungicide); Etherfon; Vivazim Nifoskal Bio-Fertilizante Foliar.
14:42:39  Counter w/ breathing mask, goggles, containers & seed packets behind.
14:43:13  Cans of Ferry Morse  Let The Good Earth Produce.
14:43:50 - 14:48:27  Man behind counter interviewed.  Continued on next card...
Agriculture; Farm Labor; South America; Poverty; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Occupational Dangers; 1989; Hazards;

X          221614          14:48:37 - 15:26:39            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[San Pedro, Argentina Agricultural Chemical Store 26Oct89 & Pesticide Spraying 25Oct89]
14:48:37 - 14:53:40  Interview continued w/ man behind counter of agricultural chemicals.
14:53:40  View of wall of store w/ shelves of containers, scale on counter.
14:54:33  Folidol-m  (Insecticide) containers & labels by Bayer Chemical w/ toxic warnings.  Skull & crossbones, toxico; Gusathion M 35 (insecticide); Paracien (insecticides) in buckets. 
14:58:18  Farm storage warehouse w/ chemical bags; shelves w/ boxes etc.
14:58:57  CU label Nocivo... (dont store near food?). 
14:59:09  Bag w/ label Capitan (fungicide); Metamidolfos Estrella (insecticide); Dow Lorsban 48E (insecticide).
15:00:59  Tractor w/ spray equipment in farm yard w/ chemical bags etc. laying about.  Filling spray tank from large tank w/ orchard trees behind.  CU Bottle label  vendaval insecticida; bag of Vogen No. 3; bottles & bags sitting on ground.  Other bags, buckets, label.
15:03:00  Rear of sprayer behind tractor.
15:03:17 - 15:07:53  CU man being interviewed about his work; another next to him also.
15:08:03 - 15:13:23  Interview continues w/ same men.  Ends w/ tilt down to worn out canvas shoes, no socks.
15:13:23  Man w/o socks (?) on tractor, beginning spraying in orchard moving away from camera.  Shots from in front.  Man not wearing breathing mask or protective clothing.
15:17:34 - 15:17:44 Black
15:17:44  CU of citrus ?? plant w/ flowers & fruit beginning.  LS tractor w/ sprayer thru orchard in telephoto, birds flying out ahead of tractor.  Tractor past w/o spraying, turns & begins spraying.  Tractor away into trees.
15:20:47  CU leaves & flowers.  Aphids on leaves visible.  CU large green lemon, leaves w/ beginning of caterpillar nest or ??.  Drops of moisture on leaves.  CU lemons.
15:22:16  Farm worker on tractor, gets off.
15:22:33  CU hands dipping powdered chemical w/ tin can & putting into smaller plastic bag.  Chemicals coating workers hands.  Weighing bag on beam scale hanging from tree branch.  Pouring & shaking bag of powder into large bucket, residue into air & face.  Dipping bucket from large tank & mixing w/ powder.  Small can put into large sprayer tank.
15:24:30  Man washing hands in large water tank.  Other man dumping powder chemicals into small plastic bag from Vencara (?) fungicide bag; coated hands.  Weighing.  Mixing w/ dust into air.  CUs face.  Rinsing hands.
Agriculture; Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Occupational Dangers; Hazards; 1989;

X          221615          16:00:00 - 16:18:09            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[San Pedro, Argentina Pesticide Spraying & Owner (?) Interviews ca 25Oct89]
Children playing w/ ball near tractor filling sprayer.  Man onto tractor.
16:00:52  Man w/ smoking cigarette weighing chemicals.  Kids playing on lawn, tractor & sprayer leaving.  Man to second spray unit pulls up to fill up sprayer w/ hose from large water tank; mixes chemicals w/ chemical dust blowing; pours into spray tank & dips can into tank & rinses into spray tank.
16:03:21  Pours liquid chemical from five gallon bucket of chemicals w/ warning notice into coffee can, picks up w/ bare hand & pours into spray tank; repeats.
16:04:14  Pours another liquid chemical into spray tank.  Rinses hands in large water tank.
16:04:54  Spraying w/ spray blowing; no breathing mask or goggles.  View of spray drifting from orchard trees.  Tractor pulling spraying.  Oranges nearly ripe.
16:06:46 - 16:13:44  Well-dressed woman (owner?) in bright red coat interviewed re ????? (use of pesticide)
16:13:44 -   Well-dressed man interviewed
Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Workers; Occupational Dangers; Hazards; Citrus;

X          221615          16:18:20 - 21:49:10            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[Argentina ca27Oct89  Picking Oranges; Sorting Shed Work; Spraying Beneath Trees; Grain; Mother Interviewed]
Field workers dumping baskets of very large oranges (size of grapefruit) into crates in field.  Men & women (?) in tree climbing, picking oranges.  Men picking from ground; from ladders, move ladder & basket.
16:26:10  Men & woman gather crates & stack & fill from baskets.  Loaded & stacked onto wagon, thru orchard.
16:28:27  Teenage (?) boy interviewed in orchard next to woman about rate of pay; woman talks as man works behind her.  Boy talks more.
16:33:08  Men in sorting shed boxing oranges (pounding them into place) GOOD CU of face as he does it.  CU of automatic sorter by size.  Sprays liquid ?? on top of oranges.
16:34:44  Man on opposite side of machine dumping crates of oranges from field onto inclined table of rollers.  16:35:00  Unloading wagon at packing shed w/ orchard beyond.  Man moving tall stack of crates w/ hand truck, pan to sorting machine.  MCU hands sorting & mixing oranges on conveyor.
16:36:43 - 16:36:54  Black
16:36:54  Farm yard w/ tractor & sprayer, man carrying bag of chemicals.
16:37:30  Tractor w/ low canvas covered boom & chemical tank behind driver spraying weeds under tree.  CUs of operator & tractor.  GOOD
16:39:52  Brown dying weeds under & between orchard trees.
16:40:45  Tractor pulling sprayer followed by two men w/ high pressure hoses spraying trees.  Men wrapped in cloth for protection.
16:41:03--16:41:05  Black
16:41:02  CU loading water into large spray tank pulled behind tractor.  Two men standing by pipe next to chemicals.  Man walks in, pours chemicals or ?? onto sticks & lights.
16:42:36  LS John Deere tractor seen on road across grain field, pull back to show very large green grain field.  Highway in distance.
16:44:09 - 16:49:10  MS  woman on bench in front of brick & mud house w/ four young children interviewed about health issues & subsequent death of one of her children due to poisoning.
Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Workers; Occupational Dangers; 1989; Hazards; Pesticides;

X          221615          16:49:20 - 17:08:42            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[Argentina ca Oct89  Workers Housing & Interviews; Agrobusiness Signs; Grain Mill; Hand Spraying]
Man & woman interviewed standing in front of red brick wall about how he faced death because of living close to the fields & breathing agricultural chemicals
16:53:28  Farm houses or village, pan across to workers housing  w/ kids in yard, clothes on line, people under trees.  Small kid wandering around.  Men walking up road w/ large dead branches, kids play w/ dogs.  Guys w/ branches talk to others by fence.  MS of two-room shack; Truck on road; woman sweeping dirt yard.
16:56:50  Tractor pulling disc, tank on trailer & shed on wheels; followed by another tractor & ??.  Pan over to shacks.
16:57:22  Same man as at beginning interviewed on road w/ worker housing behind.  Points & explains that despite dangers the farmers keep spraying chemicals on their house & garden / yards.
16:59:26  Small building w/ painted sign on side: Agronomia Integral.
16:59:46  Hanging sign:  Remedios para plantas - Hoechst.
16:59:55  Hanging sign:  Fertilizantes  Plaguicidas - BASE.
17:00:04  Logo for Agronomia Integral on wall of building.
17:00:15  H. Minnucci Cereales & Hijos de S.A.C.A.G. on large grain storage tanks at grain elevator.  LS from across dirt road of complex.
17:02:05 - 17:02:18  Black
17:02:18  Man by water tank strapping on hand pumped backpack sprayer, walks off & along rows of beans beginning to climb tied sticks spraying.  Repeat towards camera w/ spray blowing. Not wearing mask or gloves.  CUs & LSs thru sticks.  GOOD.
17:07:16  CU insecticide container:  Tritumol Paration 100 w/ large skull & cross-bones.  Container sitting on ground by edge of water storage tank.
Poverty, Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Workers; Occupational Dangers; Hazards; 1989 (?);
NOTE:  Hoechst AG was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis in 1999.  Was boycotted against in mid-1990s because of pharmaceuticals.

X          221615          17:08:53 - 17:26:16            1989; 1980s; 1990s;           COL      SD       

[Argentina ca Oct89  Well w/ hand pump & mixing pesticide or ?? for hand spraying]
Man w/ backpack sprayer walking back to water tank & mixes new batch of spray, puts on tank leaves.
17:13:07 - 17:14:57  Sprayer interviewed then walks off. re:
17:14:58  Men & children picking strawberries.  Rows lined w/ plastic.  CU ripe strawberry; CU green strawberries.  Blossoms on plants.
17:18:44  Man pumping hand pump in front of house at laundry tubs.  Pours water into barrel; mixes chemicals.  Fills back sprayer tank w/o gloves, etc.  Chemicals run into puddles on ground & tank is wet.  Puts on & walks off away from house.
Poverty, Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Workers; Occupational Dangers; Hazards; 1989;

 

 

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