The Ravel Films, no. 4 - Rita Faces Life and Discovers Afikomen (1946)

Year Published: 19461940s

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This intertitled home movie from El Paso's Ravel family captures scenes of baby Rita where she first "Faces Life" then "Discovers Afikomen." In the first scene, Rita is seen holding the April 8, 1946 issue of Life Magazine (sold for 10 cents), and in the second scene, she is eating the matzah afikomen. Afikoman is a piece of matzah that is set aside to eat as a desert after the seder meal; often it is hidden for the children to find as a way to occupy them during the feast.