PAINTED PIG

Series: Arts and crafts of Mexico series

Duration: 30 min

Creator: Religious Film Association, Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: Silent

Description: Produced by Harmon foundation in 1943. Demonstrates in color the origins of Mexican art in the lives of the people. A trip thru the village market life—the cattle being driven to market, and the primitive trace form from the background. As she falls asleep, Carmelita's mother tells her about market day and how the painted pig is made in the courtyard of his home, the artist kneads his clay and forms the body of the pig over a mold and completes the project.

Complete Record: Series: Arts and crafts of Mexico series Dewey number: 738 Audience level: jh-sh-c-trade-adult Format/cost: 16-si-rent $3. Also color-$6 Distributors / rental: Bell & Howell Company sd-$40; Ideal Pictures Corporation $2; University of Illinois sd-$1; Ball State Teachers College $2.25; New Jersey State Museum; Calhoun Company; University of California $2; Photoart House; Cine si-sd; Visual Education, Inc (Texas); DeVry Films and Laboratories $2

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946