This film made by Hamilton Wright for the Mexican Department of Tourism begins in Mexico City, explores Acapulco, Taxco, Guanajuato, the temples of Teotihuacan, Lake Pátzcuaro, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Puebla. The film tries to give a sense of the presence of history in these places and create a sense of romance in order to to entice visitors. We believe it dates to 1968, the same year Mexico hosted the Olympics. (TRT 19:50)

(0:10) A map of the Western hemisphere, Mexico bracketed by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Marimba music plays. (0:20) Title, “From a Mexican Notebook, Produced for the Mexican Government Department of Tourism by the Hamilton Wright Organization, Inc.”. Aerial views of Mexico City under the title screen, including traffic. (1:01) Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral. (1:15) Palacio de Bellas Artes (1:20) Hotels – El Diplomatico, Plaza, El Presidente (1:36) Boats float, families perambulate at Chapultepec Park (2:07) Elephants perform in the park (2:20) Trajinera boats, called “Chichimec canoes”. One has “Wells Fargo” spelled in flowers. A mariachi plays on a boat, a woman sells flowers to tourists on the water. Marimba music forms the soundtrack. (3:15) A bullfight, the “fiesta brava”. (3:43) Neon lights, dancing couples in a club. (4:04) A bus leaves an Estrella de Oro bus station, headed to Acapulco. (4:40) A mountain highway (4:45) Aerial view of Acapulco, with harbor, resorts, pool (5:37) Synchronized skiers, a hang glider on skis (6:07) Views of Taxco, foregrounded by the Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco (7:00) The Taxco Zócalo (7:08) Los Castillo Plateros – silversmiths create jewelry (7:40) Views of San Miguel Allende, with landscape and portrait painters in a square (8:16) Aerial view of Guanajuato (8:33) People in baroque costume in a square. A woman steps out of a palaquin, in a pageant of Don Quixote. Another woman dances with a tambourine. (10:05) A marketplace, with bread and clay pots (10:20) A wedding party on horses (10:39) Sign: Tlaquepaque, 1 Km. (10:50) Men and women painting clay pots with flower ornaments (11:26) Views of Diego Rivera murals from the corridor of the National Palace in Mexico City. Narrator: “the Aztecs, the Tarascans and the Zapotecs” (11:44) Portrait of Hernando Cortez (11:49) Statue of Cuauhtémoc in the Mexico City Zócalo. Narrator. “Montezuma fell” (11:56) Views of the Monte Albán site in Oaxaca from a high vantage point (12:40) The Atlantean figures at Tula, once the capital of the Toltec Empire (12:53) The Pyramid of the Niches in El Tajín (13:02) The Danza de los Voladores performed by Totonac people at base of the pyramid. (14:18) The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan (14:44) Heads at the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan (14:48) Janitzio island in Lake Pátzcuaro, topped by the a statue of José María Morelos, with butterfly net fishing canoes (15:40) The Danza de los Viejitos (dance of the little old men) (16:37) Shepherds and sheep, mountains and a church. (16:50)The National Autonomous University of Mexico and its central library with mural by Juan O’Gorman and the UNAM administration building by Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral (17:42) Views of Puebla, with marching bands on parade (18:35) Couples dancing to a mariachi. The End.

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