A legacy of smoke / WhiteStoneRidge Productions and El Centro Español de Tampa present ; a film by Luis Arego and James D. Fernández. The weight of remembering / WhiteStoneRidge Productions and El Centro Español de Tampa present ; a film by Luis Arego and James D. Fernández.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Arego, Luis, film director.

Fernández, James D., film director.

WhiteStoneRidge Productions, film production company, publisher.

Centro Español de Tampa, film production company.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spaniards--Florida--Tampa.

Spaniards.

Immigrants--Florida--Tampa.

Immigrants.

Tampa (Fla.)--History.

Tampa (Fla.).

Florida--Tampa.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Documentary films.

History.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Title on container: A legacy of smoke (un legado de humo)

Legado de humo

Place of Publication:

[New York] : WhiteStoneRidge Productions, [2017]

Language Note:

(A Legacy of Smoke) In Spanish with subtitles in English; (The Weight of Remembering) In English, no subtitles.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 0; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; stereo.

digital optical stereo

widescreen (1.85:1)

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 0

Summary:

"A Legacy of Smoke: Spanish Immigrants in Tampa is a 50-minute no-budget non-fiction film, that offers a "fly-on-the-wall" perspective of a handful of tampeños as they go about their lives during two days in 2013. On Day 1 of the film: Angel Rañón and José Oural have spent years compiling a list of over 1,000 nicknames of Spanish tampeños; in the bar of the Centro Asturiano, these two Spanish-born nonagenarians go over the list, while they reminisce about the tight-knit community that is sketched out by the list of nicknames. Elba Ruilova, on the day after her 100th birthday celebration, gives Marlene Menéndez her weekly piano lesson, in which they focus on music by Ernesto Lecuona and Tampa's own Leopoldo González, author of the Spanish Civil War anthem, "¡No pasarán!" Cathy Varón invites her father over to her house, to eat some Spanish tortilla, and to rehearse a presentation Cathy needs to make for a creative writing class, about her rediscovery of her mother's family archive. On Day 2 of the film: Rañón, Oural and Eduardo Varón head over to the majestic theater of Tampa's Centro Asturiano, to view home movie footage that was shot in Tampa in 1938, and that has been preserved in the archives of the University of South Florida. The palatial Centro Asturiano, the encyclopedia of nicknames, the musical repertoire, the family archive, and the scenes captured in the old home movie footage; all of these things evoke Tampa's once vast and vibrant Spanish community, as it is cherished -and, in a certain sense, mourned- by the heirs of a "Legacy of Smoke."" https://legacyofsmoke.org/tampa/

"Curiosity about a strange heirloom - an ancient fishing sinker he inherited from his Spanish immigrant grandfather - is what drives the fictional narrator of this documentary to travel from his New York home to Tampa, Florida. And before long, thanks to the amazing cast of Tampa old-timers he encounters there, the narrator -and the spectator- will be immersed in the sights, sounds, textures, tastes and smells of a world on the verge of disappearing. It is the world built by Spanish immigrants, who arrived to Tampa by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and who, alongside other immigrants from places like Cuba, Sicily, Germany, and Romania, helped transform a once sleepy fishing village into the bustling "Cigar Capital of the World." The narrator's grandfather had emigrated from Spain to Cuba and from Cuba to Tampa, before finally settling and starting a family in New York. For decades, the fishing weight occupied a place of honor, first atop the family radio, then on the family television. And even though everyone in the family knew that the sinker was some kind of relic from abuelo's years in Tampa, nobody ever thought of asking him about its significance. And now it is too late." https://theweightofremembering.com/?wref=bif

Contents:

[Disc 1] A legacy of smoke (un legado de humo) (50 minutes)

[disc 2] The weight of remembering (55 minutes)

Notes:

Videodisc release of two motion pictures produced in 2014 (A Legacy of Smoke) and 2017 (The Weight of Remembering).

Special features include original theatrical trailers for both films, and ten other short films.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

OCLC:

976433492