one film reel( 680 feet) sound color 16mm archival original
Type:
Motion pictures (visual works)
Collection descriptions
Place:
South America
Argentina
Date:
1967
Topic:
Weaving
Looms
Local number:
HSFA 2007.10.26
Notes:
title from credits (published work)--archival collection
Supplementary materials: audio tapes, still photographs, production files, correspondence, promotional materials and press clippings
Film also known by the title Sinforiano Alancay
Summary:
Edited ethnographic film by Jorge Preloran documents a traditional method of weaving using a horizontal loom introduced by the Spanish. Sinforiano Alancay, of Tilcara, Jujuy Province, Argentina, is shown weaving a bedspread. Produced at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán with assistance from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes
