[Reel 54]

Carry Wagner

Home movies recorded by Carry Wagner. 1957 part 1; 14:36 women with baskets on heads, from moving car; 14:43 landscape through barbed wire; 15:04 two men rocking huge wooden barrel; 15:26 group of men in suits, bald man in white lab coat; 15:31 woman with huge load on head, from car; 15:49 girls dancing in circle; 16:34 bamboo birdcages; 16:58 women posing for picture on deck, holding wooden hoops for deck game; 17:00 woman posing, man painting ship’s rigging behind her; 17:10 woman with cat on deck; 17:40 deck, pool, sunning scenes; 18:25 group of black men treading water, looking up; 18:35 dockworker unloading cars; 19:13 uniformed man directing traffic; 19:36 pristine beach; 20:12 old couple walking towards camera; 21:00 huge palm trees lining road; 21:29 closeup of tourists; 22:10 black woman with bundle on head, child poor; 22:16 spectacular ocean coast, green hills; 24:03 man boarding ship; 24:47 rocky coastline; 25:27 bridge; 25:30 ominously dark sky over brownish bay; 26:19 man with hat and camera on deck, looking into camera; 27:23 dock area, densely packed with small boats; 29:09 two people in canoe on muddy delta waters; 29:43 dockside warehouse: “Cocal A. Fonseca & Cia.; 29:46 huge logs by water, river or delta; 29:49 three girls standing on logs; 30:09 man with parrot in hand; 30:25 boy running across jungle bridge; 30:44 men winching huge logs; 31:14 barebacked men scrubbing decks.