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1. Fiestas of the hill (11:14)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Shows various religious festivals in Mexico. Included is the festival at Amecameca where dancers climb the trail to Sacramente, re-enacting part of a passion play. Also pictures Lenten pilgrims visiting the one-time sacred grotto of Oztocteotl.

2. Journey to Kunming (28:54)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Shows the economic life and activities of the people in the Kunming area of Yunnan Province, at the end of the Burma Road. Pictures agriculture, transportation, conditions of life, and the methods of labor and industry of the people in this congested area. Contrasts the lot of the worker and peasant, who uses outmoded methods and gains a pitiful living, with the life of the people in the cosmopolitan center of Kunming.

3. The settling of the Great Plains (16:57)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Recaptures the atmosphere of "homesteading" on the Great Plains through the use of authentic photographs and documents. Enumerates the geographic and cultural factors that hampered permanent settlement of the plains.