02:53:42 0 |
MEXICAN FARMER IN WAGON PULLED BY TEAM OF HORSES
TRAVELS ACROSS COUNTRY LAND. TROPICAL PLANTS GROW |
02:53:58 16 |
FARMER PULLS THREAD-LIKE FIBERS FROM MAGUEY PLANT. BIG THORN SERVES AS A NEEDLE. PRIMITIVE NEEDLE AND
THREAD. |
02:54:39 57 |
MEXICAN FARMER SITS ON GROUND AND BRAIDS THICK FIBERS
TOGETHER. CU FARMER SHOWS BRAIDED THREAD |
02:55:17 95 |
EARLY 1940s MEXICAN MAN SEWS WITH PRIMITIVE NEEDLE
AND THREAD |
02:55:35 113 |
FARMER SAPS PULQUE FROM HUGE CENTURY PLANT. AGAVE.
02 56 FARMER REMOVES TOUGH SKIN AND SPLITS THE LEAF. BEATS ON A STONE UNTIL REDUCED TO PULP AND FIBER. PROCESS OF MAKING PULQUE |
02:57:24 222 |
PULP IS REMOVES WITH A CRUDE INSTRUMENT USED FOR A
THOUSAND YEARS. BRUSHES THEN KNOTS SILKY THREADS |
02:57:55 253 |
MEXICAN FARMER HOLDS UP CLUMP OF STRONG SILKY FIBERS
|
02:58:10 268 |
PRIMITIVE METHOD OF MAKING ROPE, A TREE STUMP AND A
FEW STICKS FURNISH THE NATIVE "MACHINERY". MEXICAN FARMER MAKING ROPE WITH CRUDE IMPLEMENTS CIRCA EARLY 1940s. WHEEL IS REVOLVED BY ALTERNATELY PULLING AND LOOSENING A CRUDE WINDLASS. SPINNING FOUR STRANDS AT A TIME. WHOLE FAMILY WORKS TO KEEP THE TWISTED ROPE FROM CRINKLING. LITTLE GIRL HOLDS COILED ROPE |
02:59:53 371 |
MEXICAN FARMER MAKES A HARNESS OUT OF MAQUEY FIBER
EARLY 1940s. STRAW SOMBRERO |
03:00:16 394 |
PARTIALLY DRIED MAQUEY LEAVES USED TO BUILD A
BUNGALOW. MEXICAN FARMER BUILDING HIS HOUSE OUT OF CENTURY PLANT LARGE LEAVES |
03:00:32 410 |
MAN CARRIES LARGE BUNDLE OF DRIED MAQUEY LEAVES ON
HIS BACK. |
03:00:47 425 |
MEXICAN WORKERS USE DRIED LEAVES FOR REPAIRING DIRT
ROAD |
03:01:10 448 |
MEXICAN FARMER DWARFED BY THE NOPAL CACTUS HUGE
CACTUS PLANTS. |
03:01:34 472 |
MEXICAN FARMER CAREFULLY REMOVES THE PRICKLY PEAR
FROM THE PLANT AND EATS. FRUIT FROM NOPAL PLANT |
03:02:07 505 |
GIRL CUTS OFF CACTUS LEAF, SITS AND SCRAPES OFF THE
THORNS WITH A KNIFE. CUTS UP THE LEAVES |
03:02:41 539 |
MEXICAN VILLAGERS WALK ON TREE LINED DIRT ROAD. TALL
ORGAN CACTUS |
03:03:01 559 |
FILM ENDS
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Description: MAGUEY PLANT. CACTUS. NOPAL CACTUS. ORGAN CACTUS 1940s AGRICULTURE. TROPICAL AMERICAN PLANTS. THE CENTURY PLANT. A GREAT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT OF THE MEXICAN TABLE-LAND FURNISHES THE MEXICAN PEON WITH EVERYTHING FROM PULQUE TO THE HOUSE IN WHICH HE LIVES
Keywords: cactus
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