PAINTED PIG
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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 catalog 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
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
More in Arts and crafts of Mexico series
- BLACK POTTERY OR BLACK EARTH OF COYOTEPEC
- PAINTED PIG
- PUEBLA
- Red Pottery of Tzintzuntzan
- URUAPAN LACQUER 1943
Sources
- Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
Record added 2026-07-02 14:20:04