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Araya / a Milestone film release ; a film by Margot Benacerraf ; screenplay, Pierre Seghers and Margot Benacerraf ; director, Margot Benacerraf ; producer, Henry Nadler.
LIBRA DVD 015 900
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Salt mines and mining--Venezuela--Araya.
- Salt mines and mining.
- Manners and customs.
- Venezuela--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Venezuela.
- Venezuela--Economic conditions--1958-.
- Economic conditions.
- Venezuela--Araya.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Motion pictures, Venezuelan.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Margot Benacerraf's "Araya"
- Place of Publication:
- Harrington Park, N.J. : Milestone Films, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD format ; mono sound ; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Araya is an old natural salt mine located on a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. In 1959, when Margot Benacerraf documented the life of the "salineros", the salt mine was still manually being exploited, five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. What Benacerraf documents is an archaic way of life that would ultimately disappear with the arrival of industrial methods of exploitation.
- Participant:
- Narration: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Giuseppe Nisoli ; editor, Pierre Jallaud ; music, Guy Bernard and the voices and songs of the people of Araya.
- Notes:
- 1:1.66 aspect ratio.
- Originally produced in 1959.
- Filmed on location in Venezuela.
- Critics Prize Cannes International Film Festival, 1959.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- OCLC:
- 502403527
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