A message from Garcia
- Date
unknown/unknown
- Summary
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Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of 'The Cavalcade of America' television series episode, "A Message From Garcia", which originally aired January 18th, 1955 on ABC-TV. This film dramatizes the exploits and heroism of US Military 1st Lt. Andrew Rowan in Cuba, on the eve of the Spanish-American War. Braving a journey with rebels through the Cuban jungles, risking capture and execution by Spanish troops, Lt. Rowan joined General Calixto García, commander of the rebel forces in eastern Cuba, to assess the strength, efficiency, movements and general military situation. This information, reported by Lt. Rowan, enabled an American troops landing almost entirely without casualties, to join in the liberation of their Cuban allies. Lt. Rowan returns home with a strange message from Garcia.
- Publishers
Teaching Film Custodians; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genres
Educational; Drama; Historical; War (Nonfiction); Adaptation
- Subject
Spanish-American War, 1898.
- Collection
Teaching Film Custodians
- Unit
Indiana University Libraries
- Language
English
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:20:21); 16mm
- Notes
Broadcast Date: 1955
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003092444; Other: GR00442031; MDPI Barcode: 40000003092444
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.