franciscovilla

Pancho?

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.)

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

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

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mexico Magico, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Villa tuvo muchos hijos con varias mujeres. Su última hija acaba de fallecer en Querétaro, a los 93 años: Socorro Arango Díaz.

In the down side of the pic we can read a tag "Fco. Villa y Estado Mayor" they was named "Los Dorados de Villa" (Villa's Golden Warriors)

Estoy de acuerdo con el nombre sobre "Los Dorados de Villa". Pero antes de ser los Dorados, Villa estaba ubicado entre ser un bandido o un revolucionario. Se creo la división del Norte y el grupo de los Dorados, cuando Villa paso a ser un Revolucionario formal, dentro del ejercito organizado de la revolución. Los Dorados usaban ya uniforme miltar de la época y no ropa de cilviles.

i have a print of this exact negative that has been cropped, however on the print that i have, Villa's crotch does not have a water stain on it. How can we request the LOC restore this and make a new one available?

Esta es la foto más famosa de Francisco Villa, y es parte del ensallo (fotográfico) y del film tomado después de la Toma de Ojinaga, por la Mutual Film Corporation, en enero de 1914. Sin embargo siempre he tenido la duda si está impresa al revés ya sea por las palabras y números o por que las riendas (reins of bridle)del caballo se manejan con la mano izquierda y el fuete (whip) con la derecha. Dr. Roberto Duarte