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Villa (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Roger said:

  Pancho?

• Wystan said:

  PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM COMPANY: "In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting. "Now the subject of an HBO film starring Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Villa is one of the main protagonists in Margarita de Orellana's vivid account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. "Through memoir accounts, newspaper reports, and analysis of the films themselves, "Filming Pancho" reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism and racial and social prejudices." --From a description, on Amazon, of a documentary movie of Hollywood's treatment of the Mexican Revolution. (The DVD is available for purchase from various Amazon vendors.)

• Wystan said:

  Other Bain/LOC photos from the Mexican revolution, with copyright notices from the Mutual Film Company: Mrs. Pancho Villa:

• Jesús Roberto Duarte said:

  If the date is March 22, 1914, the picture must be taken near Gómez Palacio, Durango. (Bermejillo, Santa Clara, or Noé RR Station). In the evening of that day the Constitutionalist Army (which Villa is comander in chief) tries an assault on the Cerro de las Trincheras (or Cerro de la Pila) in Gómez Palacio. Dr. Roberto Duarte Cirujano Plástico