Argentina (People of Buenos Aires)

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Buenos Aires, the commercial, financial, and industrial hub of predominantly agricultural Argentina. A grain broker and a packing plant employee, with the family of the latter, are introduced as representative city-dwellers. The vast pampas regions, the source of Argentina's agricultural wealth; the dependence of the city on the rural hinterland. Spanish dialogue is periodically incorporated into the film story., Shows Buenos Aires, commercial hub of Argentina, the daily life of the poeple and their dependence on products of the Pampas. Stresses agriculture, meat packing and shipping industries.

Complete Record: Buenos Aires, the commercial, financial, and industrial hub of predominantly agricultural Argentina. A grain broker and a packing plant employee, with the family of the latter, are introduced as representative city-dwellers. The vast pampas regions, the source of Argentina's agricultural wealth; the dependence of the city on the rural hinterland. Spanish dialogue is periodically incorporated into the film story., , Shows Buenos Aires, commercial hub of Argentina, the daily life of the poeple and their dependence on products of the Pampas. Stresses agriculture, meat packing and shipping industries. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.