juarezmexico

Bridge - El Paso to Juarez (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Wystan said:

  Other Bain/LOC photos of the Mexican Revolution, with copyright notices of the Mutual Film Company: Wealthy Mexican in Flight: U. S. Army camp at El Paso, Texas: Army trooper looking for arms on U. S. -- Mexico border: Mathilde Martinez and children: Mexican refugess going to Marfa: Mexican Federal troops taken prisoner by Pancho Villa at Ojinaga (a town on the U. S. border), awaiting execution: General Caho, Governor of Chihuahua: Pancho Villa alone: Pancho Villa, himself: Pancho Villa with Rodolfo Fierro: Pancho Villa, with Rodolfo Fierro and Raoul Madero: Mrs. Pancho Villa:

• Wystan said:

  PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM CO.: "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.)