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Villa's men repairing track out of Torreon (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 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.)

• Jesús Roberto Duarte said:

  Many people say "out of Torreón" when they are "out" (north) of Gómez Palacio one of Laguna District cities. The Central Mexican Railroad tracks run south to north out of Gómez Palacio. See the shadow casting east west direction. The landscape corresponds more to the area between Gómez Palacio and Bermejillo in the State of Durango. (I am from Torreón and know well its surroundings)

• Jesús Roberto Duarte said:

  Found an article in El Paso Herald, issue March 21, 1914. Dated in the Constitutionalist (rebel) Headquarters, Yermo, Chih. "VILLA OPENS THE TORREON ATTACK". A subtitle "Rebel Progress Slow": Villa´s recent progress has been slow because it was necessary to repair the railroad tracks and bridges. This morning however, the road was open from Yermo, where the troops have been movilizing to Mapimí and Bermejillo, which (ATENTION) are only a few miles north of Torreón, and are vitually suburbs of that city....... This article helps to close when and where this picture was taken and link it more to picutre 3058-4 Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16035 Yermo (extreme south of Chihuahua State) is a few miles north from Bermejillo (in the State of Durango Dr. Roberto Duarte Pastic Surgeon