Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa = The lost reels of Pancho Villa / Universidad De Guadalajara [and others] ; una co-production Gregorio Rocha/ArchiviA ; investigación, guión y realización, Gregorio Rocha.
Publisher:
Eurolatinoamericana,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (49 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
Documentary film originally produced in 2003. A foreign film (Mexico).
Summary:
"Intrigued by the legendary Mexican military leader Pancho Villa's little-known relationship with Hollywood, filmmaker and sleuth Gregorio Rocha goes on a search for lost footage that Villa commissioned from the American Mutual Film Company in 1914, allowing cameramen to follow him into war. The footage includes some of the first battle scenes captured in "moving pictures." Rocha documents his encounters as he scours the film vaults and back rooms of institutions across North America and Europe for the seven reels of film that immortalized Villa. His research unveils a legacy of fictional and documentary depictions of Villa dating from the silent film era, revealing a world unsure whether to venerate or to fear this imposing figure and the forces of popular revolution that he embodied"--Www.subcine.com.
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