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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.)

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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.)

This photo is close to 3058-6 "Villa's men reparing track out of Torreón" which seems to be a secuence. (both located in around april 1914) www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.16037/ And is logical, the "supplies" are rails, telegraph poles, and other objects used in repairing the tracks. If picture 3058-5 www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.16036/ is part of a series, then artillery men are waiting the train to be repaired, meanwhile they took the canon down in case of an atack from the federals before taking Gómez Palacio. Or how close they were from that city to shell it? Dr. Roberto Duarte Plastic Surgeon

This picture is also in Wheelan collection.

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.)

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Since March 19, 1914 Norhtern Division comanded by Francisco Villa, approached Laguna District by Conejos rail road station, some kilometers north of Gomez Palacio (In fact you can read in American newspapers of those dates, that Gómez Palacio is a suburb of Torreón [which is not. It's a city in Durango State just separated from Torreón by Nazas River]). The artillery was used to shell heavily that city between days 28th and 30th. So "near Torreón" means that the cannon is located in the northern outskirts of Gómez Palacio, unless the photo was taken between March 31st and April 1st, the the gun is in the southern outskirts of Gómez Palacio, facing towards Torreón, by Nazas River which in that district is the divisory line between both cities and the States of Coahuila and Durango. Dr. Roberto Duarte