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Boca de lixo = The scavengers / Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular.

LIBRA VHS HD9975.B63 B633 1992
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Coutinho, Eduardo, 1933-2014, director.
Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular, producer.
First Run/Icarus Films, distributor.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Portuguese
Subjects (All):
Ragpickers--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Ragpickers.
Salvage (Waste, etd.)--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Salvage (Waste, etd.).
Informal sector (Economics)--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Informal sector (Economics).
Poor--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Poor.
Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
São Gonçale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)--Economic conditions.
São Gonçale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Genre:
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
1/2 in.
polychrome
Other Title:
Scavengers
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1992.
Language Note:
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
System Details:
VHS format.
analog
magnetic
VHS
Summary:
Without background narration or judgment, lets five scavengers who work at the Itaoca garbage dump in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, speak for themselves about their lives. They search for whatever they can find to sell-- paper, plastic, scrap metal, tin cans-- as well as whatever they can find to eat.
Credits:
Director, Eduardo Coutinho ; photographer, Breno Silveira ; editors, Pablo Pessanha, Thereza Jessouroun ; music, Tim Rescala.
Notes:
"A video by Eduardo Coutinho"--Container.
Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
OCLC:
32457546

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