MAYALAND TODAY

Series: Way of life series

Duration: 10min

Year Published: 1941

Creator: Iowa Theatrical & Television Corporation

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Produced by Franchon Royer. Yucatan is located on a map. The commentator gives a little of the history. The film proceeds to some ruins of an earlier civilization. Descendants of this ancient people live today in the town of 1941. The film then follows a typical old boy thru a normal day's activities. His early morning duty is to carry water from the well. He helps his father with the work on the hacienda. He must go to school as must his little sister. We see the costume and head-dress of his mother and sister. The father feeds the animals. Father and son work together making sisal fiber or hemp from the henequen grown on the hacienda. This is taken to the mills which work long enough to take care of the harvest of the preceding day or two. It is baled and put on platform cars ready for transportation. The boy and his father are seen at the end, even his sister as the commentator gives brief details of the simple home life. The little girl sleeps in a hammock made of her father's own twine. As the boy walks down a road the film slowly ends

Complete Record: Series: Way of life series Dewey number: 917.26 Audience level: el-jh Format/cost: 16-sd-$27; rent $1.50 Distributors / rental: Bell & Howell Company $1.50; Ohio Department of Education; Shadow Arts Studio $1.50; National Film Service $27; rent $1.50; National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations $1.25

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946