Historical Note
The basic facts concerning Sergei Eisenstein's attempt to make a film in Mexico in 1931 are well established. In 1928, Eisenstein, Eduard Tissé and G.V. Alexandrov left Russia for Western Europe. In April of 1930 Eisenstein signed a contract with Paramount pictures, and arrived in Hollywood in June. Several projects including a film version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy, were proposed, but agreement could not be reached on any of them, and in October the contract was terminated.
Through the intervention of Charlie Chaplin, Eisenstein met with Upton Sinclair and his wife, and they agreed to help finance a film to be made in Mexico. The contract was signed on 24 November 1930.
Eisenstein and his party arrived in Mexico City on 9 December 1930. They left in mid-February of 1932, in a flurry of artistic, economic and political controversy, with the film still unfinished. They were refused entry visas to the U.S. At Laredo, Texas, and did not reach New York until the end of March. On 19 April 1932, Eisenstein sailed for Europe, and despite later negotiations, he was never able to complete the film or edit the footage than had been shot.
In 1933, a portion of the film, which had remained under Sinclair's control, was released as Thunder Over Mexico. Since then, other portions of the film have been released on occasion, but the film that Eisenstein would have made has been irretrievably lost. While the facts are straightforward enough, their interpretations have been widely divergent. As the 15-page bibliography in Geduld and Gottesman's Sergei Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: The Making and Unmaking of Que Viva Mexico! attests the interest in this 50-year-old film – or un-film if you prefer – has been high ever since the venture was first announced. Charges and counter-charges as to who was the villain, who the victim, have been leveled by the principals as well as by people with no connection at all to the original enterprise.
Geduld and Gottesman's book is probably the most balanced and complete treatment of the whole affair, which is currently available. It is based on large part on the correspondence between Sinclair, Eisenstein and other individuals involved in the actual filming, correspondence which is in the Lilly Library Manuscripts.
Scope and Content Note
The photos, negatives, loose photo captions, and postcards in this collection were acquired by Lilly Library as part of the Upton Sinclair archives. The photos were taken before and during the actual filming, and include both shots of scenes from the film and of the crew at work and play. The captions were intended to accompany photos used to publicize the release of Thunder Over Mexico . The nearly 80 postcards include both commercial cards and ones prepared from photos taken by and of the crew.
Arrangement
The basic arrangement of the photos and negatives is chronological, based on the "Chronology and Itinerary" in Geduld and Gottesman. For ease of storage, the large and medium size photos and the small (ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm.) photos have been arranged in separate sections. Within each of these, the photos are further divided into shots from and for the film and biographical shots, in which crew members and others not in the film appear. The photos and negatives have been numbered consecutively through 1225. There are many nearly identical shots of the same subject, which have been designated –a, --b, --c, etc. Counting these separately, the total number of photos and negatives, excluding duplicates, is 1514.
The collection is arranged according to the following series:
- Large and Medium size prints and negatives
- Small size prints and negatives
- Photo Captions
- Postcards
The first two series are further divided into two subseries: From and for the film, and Biographical. Materials are then arranged by location.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open for research.
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Usage Restrictions:
Photography and digitization may be restricted for some collections. Copyright restrictions may apply. Before publishing, researchers are responsible for securing permission from all applicable rights holders, then filling out the Permission to Publish form.
Indexed Terms
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Persons
- Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984 --Photographs.
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 --Photographs.
- Kimbrough, Hunter Southworth, 1900-1994
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 --Photographs.
- Tissé, É (Éduard ), 1893-1961 --Photographs.
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Subjects
- Que viva Mexico (Motion picture)
- Thunder over Mexico
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Places
- Mexico --Description and travel --Photographs.
- Mexico --Social life and customs --Photographs.
Administrative Information
Existence and Location of Copies
For digitized content, see the Online Content tab or Que Viva Mexico! in Digital Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Que viva Mexico : photographs and materials related to the film, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Lilly Library as part of the Upton Sinclair archives.
Processing Information
The preparation of the list, which was accomplished by the separate efforts of two individuals, took almost exactly as long as the making of the film. Inconsistencies in identification and terminology have been corrected as far as possible, but may still be found. Any additional information which can be furnished by individuals using this collection as to correct identification of persons, places and/or dates will be greatly appreciated.
Collection Inventory
Series:
Large and Medium size prints and negatives
Subseries:
From and for the film
Subseries:
Mexico City , ca. January 1931
item 1
Head and shoulders of Indigenous man in headdress with beaded headband and pendants and upright feather crown. He is playing a guitar.
Quantity: 2 Copies
Physical Description: 12.4 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 1 - on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
item 2
Head and shoulders of another Indigenous man in headdress with spreading feather crown. He wears a scarf knotted around his neck and a beaded blouse trimmed with fringe.
Physical Description: 7.2 x 12.3 cm.
item 3
Profile of Indigenous person in bead and feather headdress and satin (?) blouse.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by G. Alexandrov."7.5 x 12.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – On back, written in pencil: "Mexican Indian chieftain, dressed for religious ceremonial. Posed by Sergeius Eisenstein for his Mexican moving picture, Mexico, 1931;" stamped in black: "044." 12 x 16.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - On back, stamped in black: "044."12 x 16.8 cm.
item 4
Three-quarter figure shot of Indigenous person in Item 3 above playing a guitar.
Physical Description: 11.7 x 17 cm.
item 5
Two Indigenous people in procession, brick wall in background. Person in front wears bead and feather headdress; person in back carries banner on pole. On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 10.4 x 17.6 cm.
item 6
Long shot, from above, of fiesta or ceremony. Indigenous person with guitar, costumed as in Items 1-6 above, at lower right. Crowd of performers and/or spectators in background.
Physical Description: 8.2. x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 7
Medium shot of performers in work clothes and costumes as in Item 6 above playing guitars. Crowd in background.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
Subseries:
Tehuantepec , circa February 6, 1931
item 8
Girl in "weepeel" headdress leaning over man lying in hammock with baby in his lap. Tropical foliage in background.
Physical Description: 5 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On Back, written in blue ink: "Our leading lady/in Tehuantepec. /None of these are/for publication./Others for that shortly." Directly below, written in pencil: "[H.S. Kimbrough writing]."
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - 8.6 x 11 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 4-5 - 16.5 x 21.8
item 8a
Another shot of group in Item 8 above.
Physical Description: 12.2 x 18 cm. (2 copies)
item 8b
Close-up group portrait of man, woman and child in Items 8-8a above. 3 ½ negatives on a strip; "Eastman" printed at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 6.5 cm. (Negative)
item 9
Profile shot of man seen in Items 8-8b above lying in the same hammock.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 14.2 cm. (2 copies)
item 10
Another man half-lying in hammock seen in Items 8-9 above.
Physical Description: 10.4 x 18.1. cm.
item 11
Young Indigenous man sitting in a hammock. Field and grove in background.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.3 cm.
item 12
Four young boys wearing only conical straw hats seated on stone steps.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in black: "A68."
Physical Description: 8.4 x 10.8 cm.
item 12a
The same four boys, standing with backs to camera.
Physical Description: 3.5 x 3.7 cm. (Negative)
item 13
Group of five women wearing "weepeel" headdresses, seated in a row.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28, 1934; " stamped in black: "A68."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
item 14
Close-up of woman in center of group in Item 13 above. Women on either side of her partially visible.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "A67."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
item 15
Close-up of Indigenous woman wearing "weepeel" headdress; ¾ profile.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 17.2 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 16
Young Indigenous woman wearing "weepeel" headdress; ¾ profile; head and upper torso.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "A67."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.4 cm.
item 17
Profile of subject of Item 16 above.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "Kug-Art/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in black; "A68"
Physical Description: 8.1. x 10.9 cm.
item 18
Three-quarter length profile shot of subject of items 16-17 above. Left hand on waist. Palm trees in background.
Physical Description: On back, purple label: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped; "582;" Written in pencil: "A67."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 11.5 cm.
item 19
Young woman in "weepeel;" facing front, head and upper torso.
Physical Description: Three negatives on a strip, 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
Physical Description: "Nitrate Film" printed at edge of strip.
item 20
Close-up profile shot of older Indigenous woman in "weepeel;" palm tree in background.
Physical Description: Three negatives on a strip, 3.4 x 5.8 cm.
Physical Description: "Kodak" printed at edge of strip.
item 21
Three-quarter profile of young Indigenous woman in "weepeel;" head and upper torso. Palm tree in upper right corner of background. See same subject in Item 28 below.
Physical Description: On back: stamped, "582;" in pencil, "A68"
Physical Description: 8 x 10.9 cm.
item 22
Group of eight Indigenous women in "weepeels" standing on rocks. Leafless tree and building in background.
Physical Description: On back: purple label, "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in black: "A468."
Physical Description: 8 x 10.6 cm.
item 23
Group of eight Indigenous women in "weepeels." Tropical foliage in background.
Physical Description: On back: purple label, "" A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in black: "A68."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.6 cm.
item 24
Group seen in Item 23 above dancing. Same background.
Physical Description: Stamped in blue on back: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.6 cm.
item 25
Group of seven Indigenous women in costume with "weepeels." Setting the same as in Items 23-24 above.
Physical Description: Scratches in lower right corner.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.1 cm. (Negative)
item 26
Indigenous woman dancing. Figures to her right and left partially visible. Group of men in background.
Physical Description: 12.1 x 18.5 cm.
item 27
Young woman in "weepeel" with fruit basket on her head. Background same as for Items 13-14 above.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 28
Full-length shot of two young Indigenous women. Both wear "weepeels" and carry round decorated baskets containing small lacy flags on their heads. Tropical foliage in background. These women are seen individually in Items 21 and 33.
Physical Description: 12 x 17.8 cm.
item 29
In center, young Indigenous woman seated among roots of large tree surrounded by round decorated baskets filled with fruit. In right foreground, a figure wrapped in a shawl and seated on a low wooden chair with back to photographer.
Physical Description: On back: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.2 x 17.4 cm. (2 copies)
item 30
Young Indigenous woman in Item 29 above carrying a basket of fruit on her head. Taken from slightly below, from waist up. Tropical foliage in background.
Physical Description: On back: stamped, "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov;" written in ink, "Leading Tehuana girl."
Physical Description: 12.5 x 18.1 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 31
Young Indigenous woman in Items 29-30 above with one decorated basket on her head and one held in her hand. Fruit in both baskets. Head and shoulders.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.4 x 15.9 cm.
item 32
Head and upper torso of Indigenous woman holding a basket of fruit on her head. Serape over her left shoulder. Tropical foliage in background.
Physical Description: Lower right-hand corner of photo torn.
Physical Description: 12.1 x 18.6 cm.
item 33
Young Indigenous woman (from the waist up) holding a decorated basket containing small lacy flags in her left hand. Tropical foliage in the background. Same subject as in Item 28 above.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 10.8 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
item 34
Young Indigenous woman (from the waist up) carrying on her head a decorated round basket with small lacy flags in it.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "665;" written in pencil over the stamp, "A67."
Physical Description: 8 x 10.8 cm.
item 35
Head and shoulders of young Indigenous woman leaning against a bamboo fence. She wears a decoration with roses and ribbon in her hair. A man's face is partially visible at extreme left.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 36
Young woman in Item 35 above against same background. Head and upper torso.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934" and "582;" written in pencil: "A46."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
item 37
Two Indigenous girls wearing flower wreaths in their hair. One at right has hand on trunk of palm tree; one at left has hands crossed on palm branch and is leaning toward the first girl. Palm trees in background.
Physical Description: 12.2 x 17.7 cm.
item 38
Young Indigenous woman leaning head against palm branch; a garland of flowers in her hand.
Physical Description: 12.2 x 18 cm.
item 39
Young Indigenous woman in white headdress decorated with spray of flowers, white frilled blouse and fringed shawl. She holds a bouquet of flowers. Head and upper torso.
Physical Description: On back: stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue, "A67"
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 40
Young Indigenous woman holding up a half-peeled banana. Her hair is braided around her head, with a decoration of leaves and flowers over her forehead.
Physical Description: On back: stamped in blue, "A68."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
item 41
Indigenous woman seated beneath a stick framework over part of which a cloth has been draped as a sunshade. On a counter in front of her is a large pile of pineapples. In the lower right corner, another Indigenous woman is standing with her right arm on the counter and her left hand steadying a round decorated bowl on her head. In the background, Indigenous women and children and a low building with a tile roof.
Physical Description: On back, stamped, "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.1 x 18.1 cm.
item 42
Young Indigenous woman seated, right, in front of a large wooden frame on which is stretched a piece of cloth; she appears to be sewing or embroidering on it. The pattern is similar to that on the blouse which she is wearing. To her left is a smaller frame with another piece of cloth on it. In the background is a fence similar to the one seen in Items 35-36 above.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by G/Alexandrov"
Physical Description: 12.4 x 17.2 cm.
item 43
Group of five older Indigenous women in "weepeel" headdresses. The woman second from left is applying paint or makeup to the face of a half-crouching young Indigenous man. The woman to her left holds a staff with flowers on the end.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.5 cm.
item 44
Long row of Indigenous women, seated.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 9 x 14.1 cm.
Close-ups of an elderly Indigenous woman wearing a dark cloth veil on her head and holding up a chain and coin (?) necklace.
item 45
Her eyes are closed and she is smiling.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "S.M. Eisenstein/ Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.3 x 16.3 cm.
item 46
Her eyes are open and she has a more serious expression.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 18.7 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 47
She is smiling and biting one of the coins (?) of the necklace.
Physical Description: 12.1 x 18.5cm.
item 48
Two Indigenous women, one at left putting food onto a large round tray; one at right seated watching her. Low brick wall in foreground, trees in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue, "A66."
Physical Description: 8 x 10.7 cm.
item 49
Foliage and bamboo or large reeds at edge of pond.
Physical Description: 12.6 x 17.8 cm.
Subseries:
San Blas , circa February 17, 1931
item 50
Seven young Indigenous women in "sunflower" headdresses.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Native girls at San Blas, Mexico."
Physical Description: 16 x 21.7 cm.
item 51
Large group of Indigenous women in "sunflower" headdresses.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 52
Five young Indigenous women wearing "sunflower" headdresses climbing a hill. Village in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 24 1934;" stamped in blue: "A68."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.8 cm.
item 53
Two files of young Indigenous women in "sunflower" headdresses seated and standing on either side of a flight of stone steps. Thatched fence or wall at extreme right; large building, probably a church, in background.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 11.2 cm. (3 copies)
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: Copy 3 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Two close-up views of a young Indigenous woman wearing "sunflower" headdress.
item 54
Lighted from front and left side.
Physical Description: Stamped on back, in blue: "A67."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.4 cm.
item 55
Lighted from behind. Woman is smiling.
Physical Description: On back, stamped: "582;" written in pencil: "A67"
Physical Description: 8 x 10.8 cm.
item 56
Close-up of young Indigenous woman wearing "sunflower" headdress (face and ruffle only)
Physical Description: 8.7 x 10.8 cm. (2 copies)
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov.
item 57
Five young Indigenous women wearing "sunflower" headdresses and carrying long palm branches standing in front of a house.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue: "A68."
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.7 cm.
item 58
Two women from Item 57 above in same location. One, lower left corner, with back to camera, the other at far right holding palm branch and looking upward.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov;" written in blue ink: "K."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 11.1. cm.
item 59
Two women descending the steps of the house in Items 57-58 above. One at left wears white, a fringed shawl and carries flowers; one at right wears dark shawl over her head.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue: "582;" written in pencil: "A67."
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.8 cm.
Subseries:
Mérida, Yucatan , circa March 22-31, 1931
item 60
Close-up profile of young woman in mantilla. A second woman partially visible in background.
Physical Description: 4 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1, 2 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov." 11.9 x 17 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 3, 4 - On back, written in pencil: "Society girls of Yucatan, Mexico, posing for Eisenstein's moving picture. 12.2 x 17.5 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 61
Full-face shot of Item 60 above. Two other young women in mantillas partially visible at either side behind her.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm
item 62
Subject of Items 60-61 above holding large opened fan in front of her. Two other women in mantillas partially visible on either side behind her.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12 x 17.2 cm.
item 63
Profile shot of young woman in mantilla holding open fan in front of her. Other young women partially visible in background.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 9.7 x 17.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2, 3 - On back, written in pencil: "Society girls of Yucatan, Mexico, posing Eisenstein's moving picture." 10.2 x 17.4 cm.
item 64
Another young woman in a mantilla; flowers on her right shoulder and at the left side of her head. From the waist up.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.4 cm.
item 65
Three young women in mantillas, holding open fans. Woman in the middle is the subject of Items 60-62 above. Woman at right is the subject of Item 64 above.
Physical Description: 6.4 x 8.5 cm.
item 66
Young woman in mantilla; cluster of flowers at left side of her head. Right arm raised as though it is resting on something; she holds an open fan in her hand. Also seen in Item 65 above, at left.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
Three similar views of a group of young women in mantillas seated in a patio(?) or garden(?). The subject of Items 63 above is seated in the right foreground; the subject of Item 64 above is seated second from left, playing a guitar.
item 67
Untitled
Physical Description: 6 x 8.2 cm.
item 67a
Untitled
Physical Description: 7.3 x 9 cm.
item 67b
Untitled
Physical Description: 8.8. x 11.4 cm.
item 68
Close-up of subject of Item 64 above, playing a guitar as in Items 67 – 67b above. A second woman in a dark mantilla is at her right; this woman is seated to her right in Items 67-67b above. Head and upper torso of each.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 11.4 cm.
item 69
Another young woman in a dark mantilla, holding a fan. A second woman is partially visible at extreme right.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 12 cm.
item 70
Two young women, seated, wearing mantillas and holding fan. The woman at left wears a dark mantilla; the one at right a white one.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue; "A.M. Einstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 10.8 x 16.8 cm.
item 71
Close up of young woman in mantilla at left, another partially visible behind her at right holding an open fan.
Physical Description: "TE FILM" stamped at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 1 ½ negatives on strip, 3.4 x 6 cm.
item 72
Young woman in mantilla at left, another behind her at right holding an open fan.
Physical Description: "NITRATE" stamped at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 1 negative on strip. 3.4 x 2.7 cm.
item 73
Two young women seated in a coach; driver holding reins in the box. One woman is dressed in white, with a white mantilla and holds flowers; the other is in a dark mantilla and dress. Church in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.8 x 17 cm.
item 73a
Closer shot of young woman in white in Item 73 above looking out of coach window. Driver is seated in box. Taken from slightly behind the coach.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 74
2 ½ contact prints on one strip.
Physical Description: "PANCHROMATIC" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.8 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, only legs of two men and floor visible.
- David Liceaga in rocking chair on veranda.
- Church façade.
item 74a
2 1/3 contact prints on one strip.
Physical Description: Printed in reverse at edges of strip, "Du Pont" and "3H82979".
Physical Description: 3.9 x 8.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Young man seated in a rocking chair seen in Item 74, no. 2 above. He wears a high-crowned Mexican hat and is playing a guitar.
- The same, but from a different angle, and the young man has moved slightly.
- Unidentifiable; some foliage visible.
item 75
David Liceaga, seated in rocking chair as in Item 74, no. 2 above. See also Item 335 below.
Physical Description: 8.1. x 10.6 cm.
item 76
Close-up of David Liceaga in same rocking chair as seen above. Head and upper torso.
Physical Description: 2 copies:
Physical Description: Copy 1 – 7.9 x 10.5 cm
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 12.3 x 17.5 cm.
Liceaga having his hair arranged by another man. See also Items 335 and 605 below.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 77
Two prints.
Physical Description: 3.9 x 7.6 cm
item 77a
2 ¾ prints.
Physical Description: (1) Partially cut off. Lower left corner of strip torn.
Physical Description: 4 x 9.7 cm.
item 78
2 ¼ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 8.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Liceaga in front of a full-length mirror.
- Liceaga and another bullfighter in front of the same mirror; the other man is helping to fix Liceaga's hat.
- Unidentifiable; a man's arm and shoulder with another man's hand resting on the shoulder.
Various similar scenes of Liceaga and another bullfighter on the veranda seen in Item 74 above.
Physical Description: Four strips of contact prints.
item 79
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 8.6 cm.
item 79a
3 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 11.8 cm.
item 79b
3 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J22300" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 12.1 cm.
item 79c
2 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 8.3 cm.
item 79d
Same subjects and setting as Items 79-70c above. Liceaga and another bullfighter on veranda in front of mirror.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Production" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.7 x 17.1 cm.
Liceaga and another bullfighter kneeling on stone steps of church or chapel in front of large crucifix on wall. See also Item 607 below.
Physical Description: Three strips of contact prints.
item 80
Three prints.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Liceaga standing with hand on wooden railing, possibly in veranda seen in Items 77-79d above.
- (2,3) As described above.
item 80a
Three prints.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Empty church.
- (2,3) As described above.
item 80b
Three prints.
Physical Description: Numbers and words at edge of strip have been cut off and are unreadable.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 12.1 cm.
item 81
Medium shots of crucifix seen in Items 80-80b above. See also Item 607 below.
Physical Description: Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 11.6 cm.
Various shots of individuals in coach seen in Items 73-73a above. See also Items 336-337a below.
item 82
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J22294" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.5 x 8.4 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Young women seen in Items 73-73a above seated in coach.
- Long shot of Liceaga and another matador seated in coach.
- The same, but a medium shot.
item 83
Liceaga and second matador in and around coach.
Physical Description: Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J22293" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 11.6 cm.
item 84
4 ½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J22292" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 16.9 cm.
item 85
Liceaga and second bullfighter seated facing each other in coach.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "En route to the bull ring."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.2 cm.
item 86
Close-up of Liceaga and second matador in coach.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov". 13.8 x 18.8. cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Production:" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov"; written in pencil: "En route to the bull ring". 12.5 x 17.9 cm.
item 87
Long shot of coach seen in Items 82-86 above passing by a church. Liceaga is visible seated in the coach.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 10.9 cm.
item 88
David Liceaga seated left, elderly woman seated right in armchair. An open framework above and behind them, and foliage in the background; probably on a veranda.
Physical Description: 8 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "Liciago (sic) saying farewell to his mother before entering the bull ring. (After the elaborate ceremony of dressing, Liciago goes to church to say his prayers.)" 12.3 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2, 3, 4 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov." 12.3 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 5, 6 7 - 12.3 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 8 - On back, written in pencil in Spanish: "[ ] [ ] a la madre/Para [ ]." 5.9 x 8.4 cm.
item 89
Same subjects and setting as Item 88 above. Liceaga bending forward for his mother to kiss him on the forehead.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - Has been cut in two pieces; one with Liceaga's arm, 4 x 9.9 cm. Rest of picture, 9.9 x 11.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov;" written in pencil: "Bullfighter saying farewell to mother." 12.3 x 17.5 cm.
item 90
Same setting and subjects as Items 88-89 above. Woman kissing Liceaga on forehead.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.5 cm.
item 91
Same setting and subjects as Items 88-90 above. Liceaga kissing woman's hand.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.3 cm.
Same subjects and setting as Items 88-91 above. Liceaga and elderly woman and in some shots a second bullfighter.
Physical Description: Four strips of contact prints.
item 92
Four full and two half-prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.9 x 17.7 cm.
item 93
Four full and two half prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont," "Panchromatic" and "8J22293" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 17.6 cm.
item 93a
Four full and two half prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" and "8J22293" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: First 3 prints overlap last three of Item 93 above.
Physical Description: 4 x 17.6 cm.
item 93b
Four full and one half prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic," "Du Pont" and " …282" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 17.6 cm.
item 93c
Same setting as Items 89-93b above. Liceaga alone; head and upper torso; wearing suit of lights, hat, cape over left shoulder.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.4 cm.
In the bull ring, Liceaga and another matador; behind the fence, other men.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 94
Three prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 11.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Long shot of all four men.
- Close-up of matador holding cape.
- Medium shot of all four men.
- Very narrow section of next picture, which has been cut off, shows upraised man's arm and hand.
item 94a
3 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 12.2 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Cut off, but appears to be same as Item 94 no. 3 above.
- (2) Liceaga, arm upraised, looking over his right shoulder at man in straw hat and dark shirt. See Item 94 no. 4 above.
- (3, 4) Same as no. 2, but Liceaga is looking to his left.
Various shots of Liceaga in the bull ring with a man wearing a suit and high crowned Mexican hat standing behind the fence. Other spectators in the stands visible in some pictures.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 95
Liceaga walking past man at fence.
Physical Description: 3 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 12.5 cm.
Scope and Contents: (4) Cut off, but man in suit seen from the waist up, not standing behind fence.
item 96
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Liceaga and man, both partially cut off.
- Man alone behind fence.
- Cut off; close-up of man behind fence.
Liceaga in the bull ring.
item 97
Head and upper torso; smiling and looking slightly to his left.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 11.3 cm.
item 98
Head and upper torso; almost a full profile shot.
Physical Description: 8 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1-7 - 12.8 x 17.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 8 - On back, written in pencil in Spanish: "[…] […]amente". 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Liceaga in bullring as above, but wearing hat.
item 99
Head and upper torso, partial profile.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
item 100
Full-face shot.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
item 101
Liceaga in arena, three-quarter figure shot. Cape draped over left shoulder and wrapped around his waist; he holds the folds of it in his hands. Bright spot of reflected light just above his head and slightly to his right.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – 6.9 x 10.1 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 – 12.6 x 17.7 cm.
item 101a
Subject and setting the same as in Item 101 above, but taken from a slightly different angle.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 10.9 cm.
item 102
Liceaga in the bullring. Full figure shot; he holds fold of cape at waist in his right hand. Empty seats of arena in background.
Physical Description: n back, stamped in blue; "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.9 x 17 cm.
item 103
Liceaga in the bullring. Similar to Item 102 above, but portion of barrier or gate is seen behind Liceaga, at extreme left of photo.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
item 104
Liceaga in bullring. Full figure shot; he is facing front, holding his hat in the air in his right hand, and a sword and working cape in his left.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
item 105
Liceaga in the bullring. Similar pose to that in Item 104 above, but taken from the left side.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "The Matador, Liceaga, taking part in the Eisenstein moving picture in Mexico."
Physical Description: 12.2 x 17.1 cm.
Four shots of Liceaga making passes with the cape.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 106
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "8J22" and "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 8.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Bent forward from the waist, he holds the cape in front of himself and slightly to the right.
- Moving the cape to the right.
- Partially cut off; only his arm visible.
item 106a
2 1/3 prints
Physical Description: 4 x 8.2 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off; but identical with item 106 no. 2 above.
- Liceaga, bent forward from the waist, holding cape in front of himself. Identical with Item 106 no. 3 above.
- Bent from the waist, leaning to the left and holding cape in front of himself to the left.
Liceaga twirling cape around his head and body.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 107
2 prints.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 8.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Taken from his left; cape is behind and above his head.
- Taken from his left and slightly behind; cape is behind him and slightly to his right.
item 108
2 ½ prints
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, only sky visible.
- Taken from the front, he is leaning to the left and passing cape to his left.
- Taken from the left; cape in front of him, only just visible at extreme left of photo.
Liceaga, holding cape in front of himself, empty seats of bull ring and another matador in background.
item 109
Three –quarter figure shot.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
Physical Description: Negative, which is marked for cropping, 8.2 x 10.1 cm.
item 109a
Enlarged version of Item 109 above, cropped according to marks on negative.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue; "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov." 11.9 x 16.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 11.8 x 17.1 cm.
item 110
Liceaga in similar pose to that in Items 109, 109a above. Turned slightly the left, holding the cape slightly to his left, mouth open. Portion of upper part of stands seen in lower right hand corner.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 2 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.7 x 17 cm.
All long shots taken from above, showing Liceaga in the bull ring making passes with his cape.
Physical Description: Four strips of contact prints.
item 111
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: 4 x 8.7 cm.
item 111a
1 ½ prints.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 4.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but identical with Item 111 no. 2 above.
- Facing left, cape on the ground to his right; identical with cut-off prints, Item 111 no. 3 above.
item 112
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, shadow and legs visible.
- Passing cape to his right.
- Walking to the left, cape dragging on the ground to his right.
item 112a
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 8.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Identical with Item 112 no 1 above.
- Identical with Item 112 no. 2 above.
- Cut off, but identical with Item 112 no. 2 above.
item 113
Liceaga in bullring, moving cape with his right hand. Full-figure shot, taken from in front and to his right. Portion of empty stands in background.
Physical Description: 6 x 8.1 cm.
item 114
Liceaga in bullring, passing cape in front of himself with his right hand. Full-figure shot, taken from above and to his left. Portion of stands (?) visible in lower right corner.
Physical Description: 7.7 x 10.3 cm.
item 115
Liceaga in bullring, passing cape behind himself. Full-figure shot, taken from above and to his right.
Physical Description: 7.3 x 10.3 cm.
item 116
Close-up of Liceaga passing cape around himself. Taken from slightly below and to his left. Portion of empty stands visible, lower right. Pasted on back, another photo, of architectural details of cornices of the Annex and the Igesia at Chichen Itza (see item 179 below).
Physical Description: 13.2 x 18.8 cm.
item 117
Liceaga in the bullring, twirling cape behind him with is right hand. Full-figure shot, taken from directly in front. Portion of fence and empty stands of arena, and a second man, visible in background.
Physical Description: 9.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 118
Liceaga in the bullring, passing the cape in front of himself to his right with his right hand. Full-figure shot, taken from above and in front of him. Portion of arena fence visible in upper left-hand corner.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
item 119
Another matador, holding a sword, left, and Liceaga, holding his cape, right, standing in front of the fence. Behind the fence, between them, a man in a light coat and high-crowned Mexican hat is standing. Two other men partially visible in the stands behind them.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
item 120
Closeup, right profile shot of Liceaga, head and upper torso.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.3 cm.
item 121
Close-up of Liceaga standing behind the barrier. Empty stands and a cape draped over the seats in the background. Right profile; his right arms rests on the barrier.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 12.9 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Two similar medium shots of Liceaga standing behind the barrier at the bullring. His arms are resting on top of the barrier, a cape is stretched out on the empty seats behind him.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
item 122
His head is turned slightly toward the camera.
item 122a
His head is turned away from the camera, to give a full right profile shot.
Three similar shots of another matador posed with his working cape held perpendicularly in front of himself. Empty seats of arena in background.
Physical Description: All 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 123
Three-quarter figure shot
item 124
Subject of items 123 – 123b above; almost full-figure shot. Holding the cape with his right hand beside his right leg.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 125
Same subject and setting as Items 123-124 above. Long shot of matador turned to the right, with cape held in left hand and sword in right.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 126
Liceaga in the arena, making a pass to his right with his cape; a bull charging him. Portion of arena fence and a few spectators visible in background.
Physical Description: 11.8 x 17.1 cm.
item 127
Liceaga leaping to evade charging bull. Portion of arena fence and a few spectators visible in background.
Physical Description: 11.9 x 17.1.
item 128
Liceaga approaching bull for the kill; sword in right hand, cape in left.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1, 2 – 8.9 x 13.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and Photo by G.Alexandrov." 9.4 x 14.7 cm.
Three scenes of the bull fight all long shots.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints
item 129
1 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 5.3 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Profile shot of Liceaga killing the bull. Arena fence and stands full of spectators in background.
- Cut off; only stands and fence and portion of arena visible.
item 129a
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "6" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.5 x 8.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Cut off, only portion of stands, fence and arena visible, but identical with same portion in Item 129 no. 2 above.
- (3) Liceaga confronting the bull. Another matador climbing over the fence in background.
Various scenes at the bullfight.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints
item 130
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 8.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but shows Liceaga, back to camera, a man atop the fence reaching out with a sword or stick to prod the bull. Spectators visible in the background.
- Long shot of Liceaga dodging bull; fence and spectators in stands in background.
- Spectators, men in foreground, women in mantillas in upper row.
item 131
2 prints.
Physical Description: "8J22277" printed in reverse at top edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 7.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Long shot of Liceaga with bull charging his cape. Fence and stands with spectators in background.
- Liceaga making pass with his cape at the bull; a second matador in the background. Fence and stands as before.
item 132
Bullfight scene; arena with spectators in stands; bull in front of barrier, three matadors in foreground running toward bull.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 133
Head and upper torso of picador wearing round-crowned, wide-brimmed hat with chin strap and tall ribbon and flower (?) decoration on left side. Portion of pillar and arch visible in background.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
item 134
Two other picadors in costumes similar to that worn my subject of item 133 above, standing beside a high adobe wall.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 11.4 cm.
item 135
Picador with decoration on hat similar to those worn by subjects of Items 133-134 above. Arms raised; taken from above.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.7 cm. (Negative)
Scenes in the bullfight featuring the picadors.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 136
1 2/3 prints.
Physical Description: 4 x 7.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Picadors, matadors and other figures in sombreros in empty arena, also cart with bull's head attached.
- Cut off, spectators leaning over wall, seen through archway.
item 136a
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: Bottom half of photo black, "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 10.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, three men in empty arena; identical with Item 136 no. 1 above.
- Picador on horseback in archway; a man in a pith helmet holds gate open for him, spectators leaning over wall above. Identical with item 136 no. 2 above.
- Close-up of same picador in archway.
Various shots of picador lying on ground with his saddle.
Physical Description: Three strips of contact prints.
item 137
1 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3 x 5.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Picador lying on left side, feet still in stirrups.
- Cut off, only feet and legs of picador visible, in same position as in (1).
item 137a
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: 3.5 x 9.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but identical with item 137 no. 1 above.
- Identical with Item 137 no. 2 above.
- Picador trying to rise; back against fence.
item 137b
2 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 4.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but identical with item 137a no. 3 above.
- Picador sitting on the ground, his feet still in his stirrups, head against hand, elbow resting on knee.
More shots of picador on ground with saddle.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 138
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.7 x 9.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Subject trying to rise, hand on fence.
- Subject slumped on round.
- Cut off, but subject again trying to rise, hand on fence.
item 138a
1 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" and "3H85267" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 5.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but identical with Item 138 no. 2 above.
- Subject trying to rise, hand on fence; identical with Item 138 no. 3 above.
item 139
Same subject, setting as Items 137-138a above. Picador lying on his left side, feet still in stirrups, head on the ground.
Physical Description: 7.4 x 10.4 cm.
Various scenes in the bullring
Physical Description: Four strips of contact prints
item 140
2 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: 4.2 x. 8.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Almost entirely cut off.
- Men guiding mules who are hauling a dead bull out of the arena.
- Spectators in the stands.
item 141
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "3H85276" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9.3 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off; lower torso and legs of man wearing white shirt and light-colored trousers.
- Same man, in empty arena, twirling cape with his right hand.
- Same man, twirling cape in the air with his right hand.
item 142
2 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: "Panchroma." printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 8.5 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1,2) Similar full-length profile shots of man in white shirt, dark trousers, standing in empty arena.
- (3) Cut off, man's arm and portion of empty arena visible.
item 143
2 ½ prints.
Physical Description: "…not" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1,2) Medium and long shots of man in dark clothes riding a horse in the arena. Spectators in background.
- (3) Cut off, only a portion of the arena fence and stands with spectators visible.
item 144
Three young women in sombreros and folk costumes riding in the back of a horse-drawn coach in a bullring. Spectators in the stands appear to be mostly men in business suits, unlike the mixed, casual crowds seen in the preceding photos.
Physical Description: 9.5 x 14.4 cm.
item 145
Man in dark suit and top hat waving a cloth at a charging calf with another man on its back. In some type of corral or arena with spectators visible at the top of the adobe wall in the background, but this is not the arena seen in previous photos.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "347" and "Velox" (twice). Written in pencil: "Our friend Pacheco ("[Russian word") in a comic bull fight. (Yucatan)". Written in pencil below, in a different hand: "(Eisenstein's writing: the Russ, word in parenthesis means "Frog)".
Physical Description: 7.5 x 12.5 cm.
item 146
Man in Chaplinesque moustache and outfit, holding up large sign on a stick. Sign has a picture of a man in a hat, and the words: "La Vencedora'/Es la unica ca-/sa que tience el/sombrero que/ud. Necesita/la Bolivar"
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in red pencil, A Russian phrase. Beneath it, in pencil and in a different hand: "["hat advertising"/(Eisenstein's handwriting)]". 9.3 x 11 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 9.3 x 11 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 – 9.4 x 11.3 cm.
item 147
Young woman in matador's costume, standing on a shallow flight of stone steps. Wall 148 behind her, foliage in background. She is holding a cape in front of herself.
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil: "Mexican dancing girl (from Eisenstein's Mexican picture)". 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 3-4 - Same pencil inscription as on Copy 1. 13.8 x 19 cm.
item 148
Close-up profile shot waist up. One edge of cape held in left hand.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.3 cm.
item 149
Oval portrait on glossy white stock. From left, young Indigenous woman, elderly Indigenous woman wearing narrow shawl (seated), young Indigenous man. Embossed seal on front: "Fotografia..Guerra.Mérida."
Physical Description: On back, stamped and written in pencil: "86859".
Physical Description: 4.9 x 12.2. cm.
item 150
Corpse of heavy-set woman lying on tile floor, right arm extended. In background, four men (visible only from the waist down).
Physical Description: On back, written in blue pen: "Murdered woman (strangulated)/Mérida, Yucatan. March 1931./Photo Raoul/Caneara." Directly below, in another hand in pencil: "[Eisenstein's handwriting]/"
Physical Description: 12 x 7.2 cm.
Subseries:
Chichen Itza, Yucatan
Various similar views of the Castillo, some with trees and/or other foliage visible.
item 151
Trees on either side.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.6 cm.
item 151a
Tree on one side, opposite side blurred.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 152
Tree branches around top and upper sides of photo. One bare branch hangs down directly over top of Castillo.
Physical Description: 1 print, 4 negatives
Physical Description: Print: 8.7 x 11.4 cm.
Physical Description: Negatives: 8.2 x 10.6 cm.
item 153
Closer view; partially cut off on one side. No foliage.
Physical Description: (2 negatives)
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
item 153a
Medium shot from another angle. Tree, with few leaves, at far left. Far right side of one copy blurred.
Physical Description: (2 negatives)
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.4 cm.
item 154
Medium shot from another angle. Tree, with few leaves, at far left. Far right side of one copy blurred.
Physical Description: (2 negatives)
Physical Description: 8.2. x 10.4.
item 155
Medium shot with bush in lower left corner and leafy branch in upper right.
Physical Description: (2 negatives)
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 156
Long shot of buildings at Chichen Itza. Left, the Castillo (unfinished side); center background, Temple of the Jaguar and the Ball Court; right, Temple of the Warriors and colonnade.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.7 x 11.9 cm.
item 157
View of Temple of the Warriors and colonnade, taken from atop the Castillo. Portions of walls of temple on the Castillo are visible at right and left.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.7 cm.
item 158
Similar to Item 157 above; same view of Temple of the Warriors from the Castillo, but more of the doorway of the Castillo temple is visible. Stone carvings can be seen in wall to the left.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.7 cm.
item 159
Long shot of Temple of the Warriors. Trees at left and in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black and considerably blurred: "427".
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.6 cm.
item 160
Close-up of Temple of the Warriors, framed by tree branch at left and top of photo. Front colonnade, main stairway and entrance to upper temple.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.6 x 18.7 cm.
Corner view of the Temple of the Warriors, including portions of the front acolonnade, main stairway and entrance to upper temple.
Physical Description: 2 negatives
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 161
Upper left corner and entire right side blurred.
item 161a
White blur (thumbprint?) at top, left
item 162
Close-up of corner of the Temple of the Warriors, showing four levels and carved friezes.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1. On back stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2. On back, written in pencil: "9" over a partially erased "7." 13.3 x 18.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3. On back, written in pencil: "7" superimposed over a "9" with two parallel pencil lines over the top portions of both. To the right and slightly below, another pencilled "9." 13.3 x 18.5 cm.
item 163
Colonnade beside the Temple of the Warriors. Trees and brush-covered mounds in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.6 cm.
item 164
Taken from top of main stairway, Temple of the Warriors. Portion of colonnade at lower left; serpent head and stone figure at top of stairway at right. Briefcase lying at top of stairway. Foliage in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.4 x 11.5 cm.
item 165
Close-up of serpent's head and stone figure above it at top of main stairway of the Temple of the Warriors. Taken from below and to the left.
Physical Description: On the back,stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
Close-ups from different angles of stone serpent's head at top of stairway, Temple of the Warriors.
Physical Description: Negatives
item 166
Similar to Item 165 above, but from a different angle.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 166a
An extreme close-up, taken from almost directly below the head.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.5 cm.
item 167
Stone serpent's head at entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors. An Indigenous woman stands on the far side of it, facing left. In front of it, another Indigenous woman is seated on a stone slab; she also faces left.
Physical Description: On the back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
item 168
Similar to Item 167 above, but without the Indigenous women, and taken from a slightly different angle.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 169
Entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors. Chac-Mool at far right. At far left, the serpent's head seen in Items 167-`68 above, with young Indigenous man seated on the ground in front of it.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.8 cm.
Physical Description: (4 copies)
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue, "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 – attached to each on thin paper, the typewritten note: 'THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/in filming "Thunder Over Mexico"/Sergei M. Eisenstein found much/photographic beauty among the mayan (sic)/ruins in the tiny village of Chicen/Ytz'a. This is in the Temple of the/Warriors."
Physical Description: (Negatives) various similar views of the entrance to the upper temple, 170c Temple of the Warriors.
item 170
Serpent pillars at entrance, with heads on the ground.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 170a
Medium shot of entrance, with portions of walls on both sides, and the Chac-Mool visible.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 170b
Similar to Items 170a above, but very little of wall at left is visible.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.7 cm.
item 170c
Similar to Items 170a and 170b above, but more of wall at left if visible.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Various similar views of young Indigenous man posing against a wall of the upper temple, Temple of the Warriors, and of the stone head above him on the wall.
item 171
Close-up of young man from waist up, with his arms crossed on his chest.
Physical Description: 8 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13 x 18.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 12.5 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 – on back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein's picture of Mayan ruins." 12.6 x 4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 – 12.6 x. 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 5-8 – typewritten note on thin paper attached to Copies 5 and 8; remains of similar notes on backs of Copies 6 and 7. "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The genius of Sergei M. Eisenstein is manifest many times in/"Thunder Over Mexico." In this scene the great Russian places/an Indian of today closely resembling the Indian ancestor carved/in stone centuries ago in the pyramids of Teotihuacan (sic)." 22 x 25.8 cm.
item 171a
Medium shot of young Indigenous man from the knees up.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – 13.9 x 18.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – on back, stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[indecipherable]" 12.2 x 17.8 cm.
item 171b
Young man from waist up, his head turned to the right.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 172
Long shot of stone head on wall.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427"
Physical Description: 8.6 x. 11.8 cm.
item 173
Another shot of stone head on the wall, from a different angle, and closer up.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 174
View of the colonnade. Temple of the Warriors, from ground level, looking down a row of pillars. One large tree visible over the tops of the pillars; brush and a smaller tree visible at end of row.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.8 cm.
item 175
Close-up of carving, probably from one of the pillars in the colonnade, Temple of the Warriors. Head of man wearing plumed headdress.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.7 cm.
item 176
Close-up profile shot of young Indigenous woman in flower-print dress and dark narrow shawl posed in front of a row of pillars in the colonnades, Temple of the Warriors.
Physical Description: 10 copies
Physical Description: 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
item 177
Interior of the sacred Ball court, looking lengthwise. Donkey standing in the background. Goal ring on wall at right. Piles of stone scattered through-out.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.9 cm.
item 178
Medium shot of the Annex to the Palace of the Nunnery and the Iglesia.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.6 cm.
item 179
Close-up of cornices of Annex and Iglesia. Identical with photo pasted on back of Item of Item 116 above.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.7 cm.
item 180
Long shot of the Palace of the Nunnery, with the Annex and Iglesia at far left.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "427".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.9 cm.
item 181
Two large and two small stone statues enclosed in a small walled area, possibly at the Southeast Colonnade. The two larger figures support large stone blocks on their heads.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "471".
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.8 cm.
item 182
Detail of a wall of an unidentified building.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (2 negatives)
Mayan funeral sequence. Various similar shots of two young Indigenous men carrying a wooden casket with the felt of the "corpse" visible. The only differences among these shots are slight alterations in the positions of the mens' heads and hands, and the feet of the "corpse".
item 183
Untitled
Physical Description: 8.7 x 11.5 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.3 x 10.5 cm.
item 183a
Untitled
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: on back, written in pencil: "A funeral ceremony of Mayan Indians posedby Eisenstein for moving picture."
item 183b
Untitled
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 183c
Untitled
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
Mayan funeral sequence. Two slightly different views of three Indigenous women with their chins resting on the top of the coffin. Three bowls of grain (?) in front of them.
item 184
11 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-9 – 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 10-11 – on back, written in pencil: "A funeral ceremony of Mayan Indians posed by Eisenstein for moving picture." 12.6 x 17.6 cm.
item 184a
Slightly more of background visible.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
Mayan funeral sequence. Two slightly different views of three Indigenous women, head and shoulders only, beside the coffin. A bowl of grain (?) in front of them on top of the coffin. Taken from in front and slightly to their right.
item 185
12 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov"; written in pencil. "Funeral scene in Yucutan [sic]". 12.4 x 17.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 12 -9 x 12.8 cm.
item 185a
A slightly wider shot.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "A67"; stamped in blue: "582".
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.9 cm.
Mayan funeral sequence. Two similar views of three men (left) and three women seated on either side of the coffin. Three bowls of grain (?) in a row on top of the coffin; head of "corpse" visible.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 186
Top of head and upper face of "corpse" visible.
Physical Description: Negative
item 186a
Head and shoulders of "corpse" visible. In upper corner, hand holding one side of a large cloth (?) which is hung as background.
Physical Description: Negative
item 187
Mayan funeral sequence. "Corpse" in open coffin, which is resting on the ground. Behind it and to the right an elderly Indigenous man in white hat and native clothes is standing among henequen plants.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "2". 8.9 x 13.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
Two similar shots, head only, of Indigenous woman.
item 188
Profile; subject looking ahead and slightly up.
Physical Description: 9 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1-9 – 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Negative – 10 x 12.6 cm.
item 189
Three-quarter profile; subject looking up and to the right.
Physical Description: 9 copies
Physical Description: 12.9 x 18 cm.
item 190
Close-up of young Indigenous women wearing a dark patterned cloth shawl over her head and shoulders.
Physical Description: 10 copies
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
item 191
Close-up of four Indigenous women standing in a row; a fifth kneeling or sitting in front of them at far left.
Physical Description: 9 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, remains of brown tape (?) which may have been used to Attach typewritten note on thin paper which accompanies photos. Note reads:'THUNDER OVER MEXICO'/Type of Mexican Indian woman chosen,/"Thunder Over Mexico."
Physical Description: Copies 2-912.8 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Negative 10 x 12.6 cm.
Subseries:
Izamal, Yucatan
item 192
Indigenous woman, head and shoulders wrapped in a dark cloth shawl, with her right arm around a cloth-draped object on top of which rests a pile of tortillas. In the center background is a pottery jug with three small round handles.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
item 193
Two Indigenous men wearing black cloth over their heads and no shirts. Their outstretched arms are tied with rope to a long cactus stem. Taken on the roof of a church, the towers of which are seen in the background.
Physical Description: Attached to the back and folded over the lower front of each copy is a piece of browned paper with the typewritten note: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/self flagellation of the Mexican Indians at Easter time/plays a part in the Sergei M. Eisenstein film "Thunder Over Mexico." These Indians carrying across their bare flesh limbs/of giant cacti the thorns and spines of which pierce their/flesh. It is a penance for their sins during the years."
Physical Description: 11 copies; 1 negative
Various scenes of groups of men and women in boats at the "Floating Gardens."
Physical Description: Seven strips of contact prints.
item 194
3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Three women and two men seated in a low boat.
- Long shot of same group.
- Long shot of same group, with boatman standing in the rear of the boat.
item 195
3 prints on a strip. All are badly faded or bleached out, but show similar scene with young woman wearing white mantilla playing a guitar, a young man seated to her left (evidently on the floor of the boat), and a second young woman in a high-crowned Mexican hat seated to his left.
Physical Description: On back, in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.5 x 13.1 cm.
item 196
3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Same group as seen in Item 195 above, but both women are holding guitars, and another boat is visible in the background.
- Man and second woman from proceeding photo, with another ma at right.
- Two Indigenous people in low canoe.
item 197
3 prints on a strip. Similar scenes of a young woman in a dark mantilla and a young man in a wide-brimmed hat sitting on a deck of a barge or on a dock, beneath a fringed top. The man holds a guitar.
Physical Description: On the back, in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.8 cm.
item 198
3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Long shots of man in straw hat and woman in mantilla, playing a guitar, in a boat with "Viva Mexico" on a flowered arch in the middle of the boat.
- (3) Closer shot of the same couple.
item 199
3 prints on a strip. Medium shots of same couple seen in Item 198 above; boat moored at end of dock.
Physical Description: On back, in pencil, "X".
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.7 cm.
item 200
3 prints on a strip. Closer shots of same couple. At edge of strip.
Physical Description: Printed in reverse: "[]V93855." On back, in pencil: "X"
Physical Description: 3.3 x 12.1 cm.
Subseries:
Hacienda Tetlapayac
item 201
Outer walls of the hacienda, with "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) walking past, lower left.
Physical Description: 23 x 25.7 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, pasted down and evidently also taped down at some time, a typescript note on thin paper; "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The Hacienda of Tetlapayac, built more than 300 years ago as a monastery/ - now used as the ranch house of the owners of a maguey plantation. It/is here that Sergei M. Eisenstein laid the episode of the 'Hacienda'/of the motion picture, "Thunder Over Mexico."
item 202
Courtyard of the Hacienda, with Indigenous men wearing serapes and holding sombreros lined up against the walls far left and lower right.
Physical Description: 14 x 19 cm.
item 203
Three Indigenous men lined up against a wall. The one at far left holds his sombrero in front of himself against his legs; the one in the middle stands on a raised stone (?); the one at far right has his eyes closed and his head tilted to his right.
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 – on back, pasted down, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO" /When Sergei M. Eisenstein photo-/graphed "Thunder Over Mexico" in/the southern republic he used none/but natives in his cast. This/ Photograph shows the type of native/laborer from the maguey plantations/chosen by the great Russian/director." 12.9 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Negative – 10 x 12.6 cm.
item 204
Medium shot of two Indigenous men standing against a wall of the courtyard, as in Items 202-203 above. Man at right is seen in center, Item 203 above.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
item 205
Medium shot of two Indigenous men by a courtyard wall, as in Items 202-204 above. Man at left is visible only from the waist down; he holds his sombrero against his left leg. Man at right is seated, leaning against the wall. His sombrero is on the ground to his right.
Physical Description: 5 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1-4 – Pasted down on back and folded over lower left side of photo, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Thirty years ago The Mexican/laborer in the maguey fields/greeted each working day with a/a [sic] hymn to the sun. A scene/from "Thunder Over Mexico" as/directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein." 12.8 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 5 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo /G. Alexandrov." 12.4 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Negative – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 206
Close-up of two Indigenous men leaning against a courtyard wall, as in Items 202-205 above. man at left is seen at right in Item 205 above. He is seated, leaning against the wall. Man at right is standing, his sombrero held in his right hand.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.1 x 17.8 cm
item 207
Medium shot of the same two men as seen in Item 206 above, taken from directly in front of them. They are further apart, but otherwise their positions are unchanged.
Physical Description: 20.2 x 25.7 cm.
Physical Description: 8 copies
item 208
Long shot of three Indigenous men standing against a courtyard wall, as in Items 202-207 above. All three hold sombreros against their legs. A considerable vertical portion of the wall behind them is seen.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.6 x 18.7 cm.
item 209
Medium shot of three Indigenous men standing against a courtyard wall as in Items 202-208 above. They hold their sombreros against their legs. Taken from directly in front of them.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.8 x 18.7 cm.
Two similar views of "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) and "Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) standing, left; "Maria's father" seated on a donkey, center; and a woman wearing a sombrero and dark shawl standing at right. They are standing among the maguey plants, with a large expanse of sky and clouds behind them. A donkey stands behind "Maria" at right.
item 210
Long shot.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/ Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.8 cm.
item 210a
A medium shot of the same scene; the donkey at right is not visible; more of the landscape in the background can be seen.
Physical Description: Pasted to the back and folded over the lower left corner of each copy, a typescript note on thin paper; "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/ "Before sundown. she is to become/ your bride" ..and the father of the/girl rides into the dusk of the coming/night. A scene from "Thunder Over/Mexico" directed by Sergei Eisenstein. /The players are laborers in the maguey/fields.
Physical Description: 12.1 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: 6 copies
item 211
Center, "Maria's father" riding his donkey to the right. Two large maguey plants on either side of him. Almost entirely hidden behind second plant from the left is the woman seen in Items 210-210a above. A large expanse of sky and clouds in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.6 cm.
item 212
"Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) and "Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) standing in front of large maguey plant; another to their right in the foreground; a third at extreme right. In front of this last plant a man wearing a sombrero is standing; only partially visible.
Physical Description: 7 copies; 2 negatives
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 12.8 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-7 – Pasted to back and folded over lower portion of front of photo, a typescript note on think paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO "/ "Maria" and "Sebastian" who play the leading roles in/Sergei M. Eisenstein's "Thunder Over Mexico". If the/great Russian director intended there be romance in/the "Maguey episode" of his picture, then these two/ characters must be considered, as they say in Hollywood,/"the lovers." 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: Negatives – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 213
Medium shot of "Maria" and "Sebastian" in profile, standing beside large maguey plant.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 12.3 x 17 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 - Pasted to back and folded over lower portion of front Of photo, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO" Sebastian and Maria, the Mexican-Indians who play the /leads in "Thunder Over Mexico" directed by Sergei M.Eisenstein. Martin Hernandez, a Plantation worker of Apam, /is the boy – the girl is unknown, much of The records of/the motion picture's expedition having been lost in/ Eisenstein's hurried departure from the United States." 20.6 x 25.5 cm.
item 213a
Almost identical to Item 213 above, but subjects have moved slightly.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 17 cm.
item 214
Setting and subjects the same as in Items 212-213a above. "Sebastian" is holding his sombrero against his legs.
Physical Description: 19.8 x 24.4 cm.
item 215
'Maria (on donkey) and "Sebastian" (to her left). In center foreground, a donkey colt. Behind it, to the left, two Indigenous men are walking. in the background, the Hacienda.
Physical Description: 5 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil: "Hacienda Tetlapayac" and "9" stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13.4 x 18.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-5 – Pasted to back and folded over lower portion of front of photo, a typescript note on brown paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO" Maria and Sebastian arrive at the Hacienda on/their wedding day. A marriage which is never/consummated. Before night fall…the bride-to-/ be is despoiled and the peons are in revolt. The/picture is taken from the Sergei M. Eisenstein/film, :"Thunder Over Mexico," 13 x 17.9 cm.
item 216
Close-up of "Sebastian" in profile, reaching up with his left hand to touch a painted wooden (?) bull.
Physical Description: On back, pasted on lower right corner and folded back, a typescript not on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Sebastian and the bull of/the Corpus Christi celebra-/tion in "Thunder Over Mexico" directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein."
Physical Description: 12.6 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: 4 copies
item 217
Scene in the Hacienda courtyard; Julio Saldivar and young woman, left, waving; mule-drawn carriage with two men in the box; in the background, on the steps of the Hacienda, three Mexicans are standing.
Physical Description: On back, pasted to lower right corner and folded back, a typescript note on thin paper; "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The daughter of the Hacendado [sic] /arrives at the plantation for/the celebration of the Corpus/Christi holiday. a scene from/"Thunder Over Mexico" directed by/Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Physical Description: 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: 4 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil: "Saldivar plays part/in "Maguey"/episode.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – on back, written in pencil: "Julio/Saldivar." Negative – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 218
Scene at entrance of Hacienda. In left foreground, seated man holding a bottle (of beer?); right foreground, two men seated on either side of a table with which covering and many liquor bottles on it. Center, "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) standing at top of steps. Three men in various attitudes behind her, and two leaning against balcony rail at upper right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Hacienda Tetlapayac;" stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.3 x 18.3 cm.
item 219
Two men wearing sombreros leaning against balcony rail; trees, courtyard and portion of Hacienda visible in background. Man at right is Julio Saldivar.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.1 cm.
item 220
Two men in sombreros accosting "Maria" at main door of Hacienda. Man at far right carries a whip in his left hand.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 17.8 cm.
Physical Description: 9 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil: "Hacienda Tetllapayac;" stamped in blue; "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: Copies 2-9 – Pasted to the back and folded over the front or back of the photos, a typescript note on brown paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Maria is attacked by a guest at the hacienda – Upon/this sequence in the 'episode of the hacienda' in "Thunder Over Mexico" Sergei M. Eisenstein holds his revolt of the/peons which later leads to revolution and the over-throw of/the plantation class of government. The names of none of/the players in this scene are know [sic] having been lost in/rush [sic] of Eisenstein to leave the United States and return to/Moscow." Paper torn from Copy 2 but accompanies it. Negative – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 221
Close-up of Indigenous in sombrero, neck scarf and Mexican jacket, with a cartridge belt over his right shoulder.
Physical Description: Pasted to the back and folded over the lower front portion of each photo, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/A villain goes unpunished…and unknown. When they Soviet/government recalled Sergei Eisenstein to Russia, many of the/records of the "Thunder Over Mexico" expedition was lost in the/hurried scramble. Among them the names of many of the native/players, this Mexican-Indian who lays the villain in the "maguey/episode" among them."
Physical Description: 4 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: 20.4 x 25.7 cm.
Physical Description: Negative – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 222
Julio Saldivar and young woman crouching at the foot of a large cactus; he is firing a rifle, she a pistol.
Physical Description: 8 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil: "Owner of/Hacienda Tetlapayac;" directly below In a different hand: "Saldivar;" stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/ Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 12.5 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-8 – on back, pasted on lower right corner and folded back, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The battle in the cacti/fields, Sergei M. Eisenstein/chose a scene of great natural/beauty to stage his battle/between the peons And the/guards of the hacienda in/"Thunder Over Mexico." 12.9 x 17.9 cm.
item 223
Hacienda owner (Julio Saldivar) on horseback on top of a hill with the body of his "daughter" lying over the saddle in front of him. Just visible over the edge of the hill behind him and to the right is another rider leading a third horse. The Hacienda in the background.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: 6 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 – Pasted to the back and folded over the lower left portion of the front of the photo, a typescript note on thin paper; "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The end of the battle of the hacienda/guards and the peons, the death of the/daughter of the plantation and the/arrival of the body at the hacienda. /A scene from "Thunder Over Mexico"/directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein."
Physical Description: Copy 3 – on back, written in pencil: "Saldivar"/bringing back/body of/Haciendado's/daughter." Remains of paper on back and front of photo
item 224
"Maria" kneeling, left, beside body of 'Sebastian," who has been buried to his chest in the ground. In the right background, a maguey plant; beyond, hills and sky.]
Physical Description: 4 copies; 2 negatives
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 – Pasted on back and folded over, a typescript note on brown paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/After the 'punishment of the horses' comes little/Maria, the sad faced Madonna of "Thunder Over Mexico"/What was to be a day of great happiness, her wedding day/ - is one of death and tragedy. A scene from the/Sergei M. Eisenstein film." 12.2 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 – same attached typescript note. 12.9 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 – remains of brown paper on back. 12.9 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: Negatives – 10 x 12.5 cm.
Various shots of "Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) which cannot be placed in narrative sequences.
item 225
Close-up; ¾ left profile. He is hatless and wears a coarsely-woven poncho.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 18.2 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 226
Close-up, left profile. He wears a sombrero and a cartridge belt over each shoulder.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: Copy 1 – 12.6 x 19.1 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – 13.3 x 18.1 cm
item 227
Medium shot, full figure, left profile. He is sitting on a rocky hillside, holding a rifle in his hands. Below him, at upper left, two men wearing sombreros and serapes are standing with their backs to the camera.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions." And "Photo by/G.Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 13.4 x 18.4 cm.
item 228
Medium shot, full figure, from the rear. He is standing in a maguey plant, wearing straw that and fringed serape with decorative border.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12 .8 x 17.8 cm.
item 229
Long shot, full figure, right profile. "Sebastian" standing between two maguey plants, wearing a sombrero and a serape with a dark border. Night or storm light.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 17.cm.
item 230
Medium shot, full figure, right profile. Sitting on a hill, his back to a maguey plant.
Physical Description: 13.1 x 17.5 cm.
item 231
Close-up, waist up. Seen through the leaves of a maguey plant, his head turned to the left, facing camera, drinking from a large decorated jug or gourd.
Physical Description: On back, stamped blue; "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
Various shots of "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) which cannot be placed in narrative sequence.
item 232
Seated against a wall in a circle of light; her folded hands resting on her raised knees; head turned upward and toward the camera.
Physical Description: 9 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13.3 x 18.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 – on back, written in pencil: "Indian girl/(From Eisenstein's Mexican/picture)" 12.4 x 17.4 cm.
item 233
Close-up, seated full figure, right profile. Seated as in Item 232 above, but looking down.
Physical Description: 8 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, written in pencil; "Indian girl on/Hacienda Tetlapayac;" stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13.3 x 18.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-8 – 12.9 x 18 cm.
Physical Description: Negative – 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 234
Close-up, kneeling 3.4 figure, ¾ profile. Center, "Maria" with her left arm around the neck of a donkey colt which is looking straight at the camera. In the background, maguey plants.
Physical Description: 11 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 – on back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13.8 x 18.8
Physical Description: Copy 2-11 – Pasted on back and folded back, a typescript note on thin paper: "THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Eisenstein and his camera. On 'location' and off, the/great Russia seemed to find thousands of scenes, incidents/and objects worth both his time and his shooting. This is/the girl "Maria"; who she is, other than "just a girl from/Mexico City" no one seems to know. It is to be regretted/for the girl gives the finest performance in the film, /"Thunder Over Mexico," 12.9 x 18 cm.
item 235
Close-up, head and shoulders. "Maria" with left arm around neck of donkey colt and right hand stroking his neck. She is looking down and to her right. Portion of maguey plant visible at lower left. Upper half of photo is sky.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" And "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.8 cm.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa 31 Aug. - 9 Sept. 1931
item 236
A doll-like figure on a wall over a doorway.
Physical Description: 2 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" and "8J22358" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.5 x 8.1 cm.
item 237
Close-up, waist up, taken from directly in front and slightly below. A large doll-like figure hanging from the framework of a covered market stall (?).
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "[AM OVO]."
Physical Description: 8.4 x 10.9 cm.
item 238
Dolls and piñatas (?) hanging from a pole in a market stall (?). A clown doll with a mandolin, a crescent moon and a female doll with a full skirt.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "[AM OVO]."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 11.1 cm.
item 239
Five-tiered display stand with skeleton dolls in various clothes and poses. Bottom tier has skeletons in coffins.
Physical Description: 12.6 x 18.7 cm.
Dancers at the Death Day Fiesta. They are performing on a raised wooden platform; a Ferris wheel is in the background.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints
item 240
Two similar shots of three women dancing. Woman at left wears light-colored dress with elaborately ruffled skirt.
Physical Description: 2 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "X"
Physical Description: 3.1 x 8.2 cm.
item 241
Long shots of two women (those seen at left and center in Item above) and three men wearing skeleton masks dancing.
Physical Description: 3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: Numbers printed in reverse lower edge of strip, but partially cut off and unreadable.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 11.9 cm.
item 242
Medium shots of a woman and a man dancing at the Death Day Fiesta, on a raised wooden platform. Both are wearing skeleton masks. A tent directly behind them, a merry-go-round behind them to their left.
Physical Description: Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 7.8 cm.
item 243
Skeleton wearing dress and mantilla, and holding an open fan.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 244
Skeleton in ecclesiastical robes.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 245
Skeleton dressed as a matador.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 246
Head of skeleton figure in Item 427 below, in profile.
Physical Description: Printed at edges of film, partially cut off; "..14" and "…tic."
Physical Description: Three strips of contact prints showing various scenes of groups and processions of monks.
item 247
Long shots of three monks standing on a hill, the one in the center holding a cross. Behind them is a church tower. Approaching at right, another group of three monks, the one in the center carrying a cross, and to their left a single monk.
Physical Description: Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3 x 11.8 cm.
item 248
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil; "X".
Physical Description: 3 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Nearly identical medium shots of a group of three monks, the one in the center holding a cross.
- (3) A truck overturned in a ditch.
item 249
Two prints on a strip
Physical Description: 3 x 7.8 cm.
Scope and Contents: Nearly identical medium shots of eight monks. In the foreground, two at left, two at right. In the background, four Standing together, the two in the middle holding a cross.
Various scenes among tombs (or shrines?) in a cemetery.
Physical Description: On back of each, written in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: Three strips of contact prints, three prints on each strip.
item 250
Strip of contact prints, three prints.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 12 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Nearly identical scenes of two shrouded figures between two elaborate monuments topped with crosses.
- (3) The same scene, but a portion of the church wall visible at extreme left.
item 251
Strip of contact prints, three prints.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Stone monument topped with a cross in front of a rectangular tomb. On the far side of the tomb, a man wearing a sombrero. In shadow, to his right, the head of another person.
- The same scene, but several more people are visible at left.
- A stone monument topped with a cross; steps leading up to it. A man seated on the top step.
item 251a
Strip of contact prints, three prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge strip.
Physical Description: 3.5 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Nearly identical with Item 251 no. 3 above.
- (3) Close-up of a bell in a tower. Man wearing pith helmet at lower right.
item 252
Three nearly identical scenes of a group of people around a tomb. A portion of the church is visible in the background. In the foreground, tall candles set in the ground, and in prints 2 and 4, what appears to be a skull set on a mound of earth.
Physical Description: Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "X."
Physical Description: 3.4 x 11.8 cm.
Three strips of contact prints with scenes of various women seen in silhouette in archways, with mountains visible in the far distance.
Physical Description: On back of each, written in pencil: "X."
Physical Description: 2.9 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (2) Three archways, with two women standing in both the left and right, and two (?) women seated in the center.
- (3) Two women standing in an archway, with two men standing in the distance in front of them.
item 253
2 ½ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 2.9 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off; two women standing in archway with dead tree in front of them.
- Three archways, with two women standing in both the left and right, and two (?) women seated in the center.
- Two women standing in an archway, with two men standing in the distance in front of them.
item 254
Three (?) prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 12. 8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Nearly identical shots of three women in an archway with dead tree in front of them.
- (3) Very similar to Item 253 no. 2 above, but there are three women seated in the center archway, and the sunlight makes part of the interior behind the archway to the right visible.
item 255
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: Numbers printed in reverse at upper edges of strip, but partially cut off and unreadable.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Nearly identical shots of a car parked on a hill. A portion of a city or town visible in the center background, and mountains in the far background.
- (3) Similar to Items 253 no. 2 and 254 no. 3 above, but the left archway is almost entirely cut off. Numbers printed in reverse at upper edges of strip, but partially cut off and unreadable.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa Sept. - Nov. 1931
item 256
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Close-up of man-like stone figure; baldheaded, large earrings, arms raised with palms facing outward.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue: "582," written in pencil: "A46."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.7 cm.
item 257
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Close-up of statues of Xochipilli, symbol of summer. Low crown or headdress, arms raised and fingers loosely clenched.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "77;" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/]…]nas 11."
Physical Description: Four contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 15.1 cm.
Physical Description: And negative of print no. 3.8 x 11 cm.
item 258
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Extreme close-up of Xochipilli.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "02;" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[…].
Physical Description: 8 x 10.8 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8 x 11 cm.
item 259
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Close-up of stone head with close-fitting skullcap, large earrings, and three circular medallions on each cheek.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "02;" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[...]nas 11."
Physical Description: 8 x 10.8 cm.
item 260
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Large unidentified stone statue with large earring and prominent teeth. Small stone figure with crossed arms in front.
Physical Description: 8 x 11 cm. (Negative)
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Stone statue of Coatlique, goddess of life and death. Two heads in the form of snakes, multiple hands on the chest, head of a bird (?) at waist.
item 261
On back, written in pencil: "02" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/ […]nas."
Physical Description: 11. 8.1 x 10.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 negatives, 8 x 11 cm.
item 261a- 261b
Nearly identical shots of Coatlique, taken from slightly further away than Item 261 above.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 11.1 cm. (Negatives)
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa 12 - 20 Nov, 1931
item 262
Officers of the Mexican army lined up in a courtyard. Center, a fountain with a statue of a grasshopper in the middle; left, seven officers; right, five officers. In background, a large government (?) building.
Physical Description: 12.5 x 18.8 cm.
item 263
Either Independence Day parade or parade during athletic and military maneuvers. Lines of marching men preceding two fire trucks. Cars lined up along one side of street; people watching parade. Taken from above.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.6 cm. (Negative)
item 264
Three officers at right; double line of soldiers in background at left. Palm trees in background.
Physical Description: Three and 1/3 negatives on a strip.
Physical Description: "OJ88364" and "Du Pont" printed at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 6.5 cm. (Negatives)
item 265
Large crowd filling plaza, with cathedral in background.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.1 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - on back, written in pencil: "National/Independence day/Nov 12."
item 266
A group of government officials standing on a balcony. President Rubio third from right.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 12.7 x 18.1 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 12.4 x 17.7 cm.
item 266a
Closer shot of same scene. President Rubio third from right; man to his right is seated.
Physical Description: 12.3 x 17.6 cm.
item 267
Close-up portrait of President Rubio in formal wear, including top hat. From the waist up, left profile.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Subseries:
Unidentified Film Shots
item 268
Head of stone statue and head of Indigenous man in profile. No background. visible. The number "5" printed at edge. Possibly taken at National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City , circa Sept. - Nov. 1931
Physical Description: 8.1 x 11. cm. (Negative)
item 269
Unidentified woman, child and man sitting on rocks or sand, possibly at a beach.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.4 cm. (Negative)
Five unidentified men in business suits on a patio with arches and house behind them.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.7 cm. (2 negatives)
item 270a
Leaving the patio, descending stone steps into a garden (?)
item 272
Unidentified woman holding a bouquet, standing in a field of high bushes. Hills in the background.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 13.9 cm.
item 273
Unidentified man in business suit sitting on balcony railing. Trees, street or park in background.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 274
Man lying on ground, gag in his mouth and his arms behind him. Four armed men in what might be uniforms standing behind him. One at left wears two ammunition belts crossed over his chest; one to his left wears a serape.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 275
Doorway decorated with posters and banners. Sign reading "5 cents" over the door.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 276
View of lawn or garden with trees, shrubs and part of low building (house, hotel?) in background.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm. (Negative)
Series of photos with a group of four soldiers in the left foreground, and various religious statues behind them to the right.
item 277
Statues of St. Joseph (?). At upper left, door of church is visible.
Physical Description: 9.6 x 11.9 cm.
item 277a
Three women are setting down a statue of the Virgin Mary to the left of the first statue. Door behind them at far right.
Physical Description: 9 x 13.4 cm.
item 277b
Soldiers and the two statues.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 11.8 cm.
Four women, three with backs to camera, one at right in profile, all wearing dark shawls wrapped around themselves, seated in a large paved courtyard with a tree in the middle. Walls visible to the left and in the background.
item 278
Untitled
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.5 cm.
item 278a
Closer shot; only base of tree and of rear wall visible.
Physical Description: 11.5 x 18.3 cm.
item 279
Trunk with upturned pith helmet on top of it. In the helmet, a baby fox. A pair of sunglasses held on brim of helmet by strap. Arm and side of man holding helmet just visible at extreme left. Legs of another man visible at upper right. Other articles of luggage behind the trunk.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9 x 13.6 cm.
item 280
Dirt road, right foreground, crossed by railroad tracks, center. Background, trees and low hills.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 14 cm.
item 281
Lower right, a dirt road or path. To the left of it, a huge fallen tree with steps leading up to it on the far side. On top of the tree, a woman on horseback. A wood in the back ground.
Physical Description: 10.2 x 12.8 cm.
item 282
View form cleft in hillside or entrance to the cave, looking out to a lake in the valley below. Various types of cactus on hillside.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: blurred: "826".
Physical Description: 8.9 x 15 cm.
item 283
Two wooden dolls or statues, one male and one female, facing each other as if dancing. Taken from below.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 3.7 cm. (Negative)
item 284
Women holding up a piece of cloth (?) with a picture on it.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 3.7 cm. (Negative)
item 285
Painting of a figure in a tiger mask and costume kneeling over a prostrate figure. Possibly from a work by Diego Rivera.
Physical Description: "BE 40531" stamped at edge.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 3.7 cm. (Negative)
item 286
Portion of a wall mural with two large costumed figures in the foreground. Part of doorway and window beyond in lower right corner.
Physical Description: "BE 40530" stamped at edge of film.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 3.7 cm. (Negative)
Various similar views of a church façade. No windows, two open towers, the one at left with three bells in it. Thatched-roof buildings and tropical foliage in the background.
item 287a
Three contact prints on a strip. Print no. 3 nearly identical with Item 287 above.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 12.2 cm.
item 288
Body of a man lying on his right side, with both arms behind him. Feet and legs of two other men visible beyond him. Bodies are lying in heavy undergrowth.
Physical Description: 11.8 x 16.8 cm.
Three strips of contact prints of three women, separately and together, in 289b a patio with dark and light diamond-patterned floor tiles.
item 289
1 ¼ prints.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 4.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, showing only floor and part of a woman's foot.
- The three women together; a medium shot.
item 289a
2 1/3 prints.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" written in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 8.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, showing only floor and feet of three women, but apparently identical with Item 289 no. 2 above.
- Close-up shot of the three women.
- Full-length shot of woman seen at left in print no. 2 above.
item 289b
2 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "…22287" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 9.1 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Full-length shot of woman seen center, Item 298a no. 2 above.
- Full-length, ¾ left profile of woman seen at right in Item 289a no. 2 above.
item 290
Deck of unidentified ship, showing lifeboat and two large conveyor belts (possibly used for loading of ore and/or grain) folded upright.
Physical Description: 6.4 x 10.7 cm.
item 291
Town, with hills behind it, on the-edge of a (river, lake, seacoast). Boat on the water, lower right. Might possibly be Vera Cruz or Progresso.
Physical Description: 4.8 x 7 cm.
item 292
Long shot of a dock, with various ships and small boats at and near it. In the background, trees with a church steeple (?) showing over the tope of them.
Physical Description: 5 x 7.cm.
item 293
Sailboat on large body of water. Shore line in far background.
Physical Description: 5.2 x 7.4 cm.
item 294
Man in canoe on body of water. In the background, on shore, a large house and palm trees.
Physical Description: Light, blurred areas at upper right. Photo creased and torn vertically near center.
Physical Description: 5.1 x 7.4 cm.
item 295
Medium shot of stern of sailing ship Columbia . Houses visible in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "0005" in a diamond outline: "Made by/Purple/Pigeon Studio/P. O. Box 2/Gulfport,/Miss."
Physical Description: 5 x 7 cm.
item 296
Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 7.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Medium view of several buildings with thatched-and-wood-shingled roofs.
- Close-up of gable and of house at upper right in print no. 1.
item 297
Three Indigenous people: a woman standing between two men. A dog standing between woman and man to her right; another dog at lower right. A horse behind man at right. Trees and bushes surround open area in background.
Physical Description: 5.7 x 6 cm.
item 298
Two Indigenous men holding mating donkey and mare in area enclosed by adobe wall.
Physical Description: 5.9 x 8.1 cm.
item 299
Two mating turkeys in tropical undergrowth.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.4 cm.
item 300
Elderly man in riding boots, jacket, bell-shaped hat seated and holding an open umbrella over his head. Undergrowth and cactus in background.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.9 cm.
Various shots of masked and costumed participants in fiesta or ceremony.
Physical Description: 4 negatives
item 301
Close-up of person wearing devil (?) mask and carrying a long trident spear.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
item 301a
Medium shot of several participants, including at far right the person seen in Item 301 above.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm.
item 301b
Corner of building with participants or statues in front.
Physical Description: Top of negative torn.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
item 301c
Group of participants playing guitars in a parade or procession.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
item 1226-1231
Various shots of band and artillery
Quantity: 6 Photographic Prints
Subseries:
Mount Vernon, Virginia , circa May 1930
item 302
Alexandrov, left, with unidentified woman and man standing on south lawn of Mount Vernon. House and kitchen wing in background.
Physical Description: 10.5 x 15.5 cm.
Subseries:
Calabasas, California , Summer 1930
item 303
Full-length photo of Eisenstein standing on a lawn or terrace, gesturing with both hands. Corner of house with balcony just visible at upper left, trees and hills in background.
Physical Description: 8 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-4 - On back, written in black ink: "Sergei M. Eisenstein/in the summer of/1930 at Calabasas/California, at the/home of King C. Gillette:" stamped in blue: "26." 9.2 x 14.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 5-6 - On back, stamped in blue: "26" 9.2 x 14.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 7 - Cropped more closely at top; very little of sky visible. On back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein." 11 x 16.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 8 - Cropped as Copy 7 above. On back, written in pencil: "S.M. Eisenstein." 11 x 16.3 cm.
item 304
Same setting as Item 303 above. Aline Barnsdal and Eisenstein standing together, laughing.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On front, written in black ink: "I hope we shall/allways be like this!/ [Eisenstein's signature]'" and at bottom, "Hollywood 1930." On back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein &/Aline Barnsdall." Below, also in pencil, in a different hand: "[dedication on front/in Eisenstein's handwriting]." Stamped in blue: "5". 7.8 x 13.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei /Eisenstein/& Aline Barnsdall." 11.1 x 16.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - On back, written in pencil: "Aline Barnsdall/Eisenstein." 18.8 x 24.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - 11.1 x 16.3 cm.
item 305
Group of people standing on a broad patio or terrace, with trees and hills in the background.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "1. Aline Barnsdall/2. Alexandroff [sic]/3. Sergei Eisenstein/4. Berthold Viertel/5. Tissé/at the house of King C. Gillette/at Calabasas, California/ in the summer of/1930, with Upton Sinclair/party at home of King C./Gillette." Stamped in purple: "Erich Salomon/Charlottenburg 9/Holderlinstrasse 11/Amt Westend 441." 16.2 x 25 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "From left to right:/[repeats names and locale as given on Copy 1 above]". 17.3 x 26.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - 17.5 x 26.4 cm.
item 306
Same setting as Items 303-304 above. Standing, left to right, Eisenstein, Upton Sinclair, Berthold Viertel.
Physical Description: 11.2 x 16.5 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 307
Group of 14 people in same setting as Items 303-304, 306 above. Third from left, Aline Barnsdall; fifth from left, Eduard Tissé; sixth from left, Mary Craig Sinclair; seventh from left, Upton Sinclair; third from right, G. Alexandrov. Kneeling in front, Berthold Viertel and Eisenstein.
Physical Description: On front, in lower margin, a pencilled "X". On back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein/squatting"; and in a different hand; "Eisenstein"; stamped in blue: "23".
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.8 cm.
Subseries:
Burbank, California , Summer 1930
item 308
Left to right, Alexandrov, Eisenstein, Walt Disney, Tissé. In front, Mickey Mouse. Standing in front of building entrance, probably at Disney Studios.
Physical Description: 20.3 x 25.7 cm.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa December 1930
item 309
Eisenstein, wearing a jacket, cap and gloves, kneeling at left. Partially visible man behind camera to his left. At right, an Indigenous person in costume with a large plumed headdress and holding a guitar. Spectators in background. See also Items 1-7 above.
Physical Description: 3 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein (kneeling)/at work on his moving/picture in Mexico,/December, 1930". 12.4 x 17 x 4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - 12.4 x 17.5 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 310
Left to right, Eisenstein, Tissé, the governor of Oaxaca state. All three in profile; the governor stands behind a camera. Taken in front of a house(?) with a deep patio.
Physical Description: On front, written on margin in black ink: "(over)". On back, written in black ink: "The gov. of state of Oaxaca/during earthquake./[inserted in pencil, in a different hand] in Jan. 1931/Also Eisenstein & Tissé." Stamped in black: "33".
Physical Description: 8.8 x 11.3 cm.
Subseries:
Tehuantepec , circa 6 February 1931
Three shots of Eisenstein and Tissé on steps leading to a plaza or market place. Palm trees and various buildings in the background. Bananas and other fruit on the steps.
item 311
Eisenstein seated on the steps, holding up bananas, other fruit beside him; buildings in the background.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 14.1 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 311a
Medium shot of Tissé, standing at top of steps, leaning on camera, and Eisenstein, seated on top step, holding a bunch of bananas.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.4 cm.
item 311b
Closer shot of Eisenstein and Tissé as Item 3111a above. Feet of photographer at bottom of photo, center foreground.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 9 x 14.1 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 15.5 x 23.8 cm.
item 312
Tissé (partially hidden) and Eisenstein behind camera on tripod. Beside it, to the right, Dr. Adolfo Best-Maugard seated on a chair, helmet between his knees, shooting with a small hand-held camera. At far left, a young Indigenous girl. Thatched buildings in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.1 cm.
item 313
Eisenstein posing young Indigenous women wearing "weepeel" headdresses. See Item 25 above.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple: "A/Kug-Art/Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934;" stamped in blue: "A68"
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.9 cm.
Various shots of Eisenstein and others standing with young Indigenous women in front of straw hut.
item 314
Three Indigenous women, left; Eisenstein, right. Camera on tripod at far right.
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.2 cm.
item 315
From left to right: Indigenous woman seen standing next to Eisenstein in Item 314 above, Eisenstein, Alexandrov. Dr. Best-Maugard behind Eisenstein, just visible over his right shoulder.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
item 316
Left to right, close-up of young Indigenous woman, Alexandrov, woman seen in Item 315 above.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "Grisha." 8.9 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - 9 x 13.4 cm.
item 317
Alexandrov and two Indigenous women as before; Hunter Kimbrough at right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough/Eduard Tissé[sic]."
Physical Description: 9 x 14.3 cm.
item 318
Left to right, young Indigenous woman seen in Item 135 above, Kimbrough, unidentified man, Indigenous woman (only partially visible).
Physical Description: 5 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough." 9 x 14.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2-4 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough/teaching a Mexican girl to/pose for Eisenstein's Mexican/moving picture./Mexico, 1931." 17.3 x 27.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 5 - On back, written in pencil, same note as on Copies 2-4 above, but in a different hand. 17.5 x 27.8 cm.
item 319
Standing left, Eisenstein. Seated, right, young Indigenous woman, head and shoulders only visible. Trees and building in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.2 cm.
item 320
Tissé seated on an upended trunk on a wooden platform mounted on railroad wheels on a track. Young Indigenous women on the platform and in front of it, lower left. Cloth-draped camera partially visible behind Tissé.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Picture taken in/Tehauntepec[sic]/Mexico."
Physical Description: 11.3 x 16.5 cm.
item 321
Taken from behind. Left to right, Eisenstein, unidentified man operating camera [probably Tissé], Dr. Best-Maugard, unidentified man in dark cap and jacket holding round decorated bowls beside Indigenous woman holding similar bowl containing lacy flags on her head. See Item 32 above. Woman stands on a bench. Trees and foliage in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.3 cm.
item 322
Alexandrov, left, with arm around shoulders of Indigenous person wearing high-peaked straw hat. Foliage in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.1 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 323
Hunter Kimbrough, in profile, holding an Indigenous baby in the air. Head of unidentified man visible in lower left corner. Palm trees in background.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 - 9.1 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 3-4 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough/teaching an Indian baby to/pose for Eisenstein's Mexican/moving picture - Mexico - 1931." 17.3 x 27.8 cm.
item 324
Kimbrough standing on a balcony, his hand resting on the railing.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in blue ink: "Tehuantipec[sic]/Alexandrof[sic] took this with/along distance lense[sic]/I was holding reflectors/on the balcony and did/not know he was taking/this picture. It was/very hot." Below, written in pencil: "6 of those" and in a different hand: "Hunter Kimbrough." 11.3 x 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 12.5 x 18.7 cm.
item 325
Kimbrough, left, wearing a "weepeel" headdress, seated beside a young Indigenous woman wearing a "weepeel" and playing a guitar.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in blue ink: "One of our actresses/in Tehuantipec[sic]/in the patio of our/hotel." Below, written in pencil in a different hand: "[H.S. Kimbrough writing?]." 8.6 x 11.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough/(who managed the/Eisenstein/film party)." 16.4 x 21.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - 16.3 x 21.8 cm.
item 326
Five men in front of a thatch-roofed wooden building. Eisenstein and Tissé wiping their faces with towels; Dr. Best-Maugard with towel over his shoulder, Kimbrough cutting meat at a table.
Physical Description: 5 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-3 - On back, written in pencil: "From left to right:/Sergei Eisenstein/Edward[sic] Tissé/Mexican gentleman (Dr. Best)/Hunter Kimbrough (preparing a safety meal)/Mexico cook (in background)." 17.4 x 27.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - Same inscription as on Copies 1-3 above, but in a different hand. 17.4 x 27.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 5 - 9.2 x 14.4 cm.
item 327
Same setting as Item 326 above. From left, Tissé bending forward with towel in his hands. Dr. Best-Maugard and Eisenstein both with backs to camera, Kimbrough at table, young boy behind him, Mexican cook partially hidden by post supporting overhand.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.2 cm.
item 328
Same setting as Items 326-327 above. Closer shot of Kimbrough cutting meat. Mexican boy at far left, cook behind Kimbrough to his left.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
item 329
Kimbrough, right profile, bending forward over table, Mexican cook in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.1 cm.
item 330
Eleven young Mexican women wearing mantillas and carrying fans. One stands at left behind camera on tripod. Others are seated or standing in two rows in front of camera. Taken on upper level of bullring, Mérida.
Physical Description: 6 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions." 12.4 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 - 12.4 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 5 - 9.6 x 15.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 6 - 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
item 331
Same setting as Item 330 above. Tissé is kneeling in front of young woman by camera, left; Eisenstein seated, holding a fan; Kimbrough and Alexandrov seated on the floor.
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.2 x 10.6 cm.
item 332
Group of young women wearing mantillas seated in a patio. Young woman in left foreground holds a guitar, one in right foreground holds an open fan. In background, Alexandrov and Eisenstein are standing. See Items 67-67b above.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 10.6 cm.
item 333
Same setting and subjects as Item 332 above.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-3 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein (at left)/Mexican society girls posing/for Eisenstein's Mexican moving/picture (in center)/Alexandroff [sic] (in center)/Hunter Kimbrough (at right). 17.2 x 27.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - 8.9 x 13.8 cm.
item 334
Hunter Kimbrough, left, wearing a dark mantilla over his straw hat, seated next to a young woman wearing a light mantilla and roses along the left side of her face.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough/with Señorita/Filming of/'Fiesta'."
Physical Description: 11.8 x 17 cm.
item 335
3 1/3 contact prints on a strip. See Item 74 above.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic""printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 12.2. cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Filming scene of Liceaga having his hair arranged. Kimbrough at left, holding up reflector; Eisenstein's head visible behind camera at right. See Items 77, 77a above.
- Eisenstein helping unidentified man put on his jacket.
- Liceaga seated on rocking chair on wide patio. Hand holding light meter (?) visible in lower left corner.
- Cut off, only trees and what might be a cross visible.
Two strips of contact prints showing Liceaga and second matador in and around carriage. See Items 82-84 above.
item 336
3 ½ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 13.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Liceaga and second matador standing beside carriage.
- Liceaga seated in carriage.
- Close-up of lamp on side of carriage; Liceaga in background, looking over his shoulder.
- Cut off, but shows camera, one of matadors and Tissé.
item 336a
2 ½ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Identical with Item 336 no. 3 above.
- Identical with Item 336 no. 4 above, but a complete print.
- Cut off, but showing Liceaga seated in carriage.
Eisenstein, Liceaga and second matador seated in carriage. Driver in box, holding reins.
item 337
Untitled
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.8 cm
item 337a
Slightly different angle; subjects have moved slightly.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.1 cm.
Three strips of contact prints showing various scenes in flooded city streets.
item 338
2 1/3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 8.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off and blurred.
- Hunter Kimbrough getting out of carriage on flooded street.
- Man riding bicycle down flooded street.
item 338a
2 ¼ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 8. 4 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Almost entirely cut off, but identical with Item 338 no. 2 above.
- Identical with Item 338 no. 3 above.
- Car being driven through flooded street.
item 338b
2 ½ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 9.2 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Identical with Item 338a no. 3 above.
- Truck being driven through flooded street.
- Cut off, but taken at bull ring, showing man and camera on upper level of stands. See Item 351 below.
item 339
Eisenstein standing in front of carriage, which is stopped at entrance to bull ring on back, written in pencil: "2". See also Item 974 below.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 13.6 cm.
Liceaga, his cape held in his right hand and spread on the ground in front of him, standing beside Eisenstein in bullring.
item 340
On back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein/David Liceaga./ Note: Hemingway/mentions/Liceaga in /"Death in the /Afternoon'": stamped in blue: "Photo by/G. Alexandrov".
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.5 cm.
item 340a
1 ½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5.2 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, only lower portion left, but identical with Item 340 above.
- Liceaga alone, in similar pose.
item 341
Eisenstein, left, with arms around Liceaga. In bullring.
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: And negative 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 342
Eisenstein, left, looking into camera on tripod. Liceaga behind him, "attacking" him with banderillas.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 13.5 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 343
2 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J2278" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.3 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, part of fence and stands and arms of man holding hat visible.
- Unidentified man standing beside rack of banderillas.
item 344
1 ½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 5.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but Tissé, lying on side with camera. Eisenstein kneeling at right and two unidentified men holding reflectors are visible.
- Liceaga in empty arena, twirling cape in the air in front of himself.
item 345
From left, Liceaga, with cape spread on the ground in front of him; two unidentified men holding reflectors; Tissé lying on his right side on the ground with camera; Eisenstein kneeling behind him. Another matador in background. In empty arena.
Physical Description: 4 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions' and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov," 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico/posing a bull fighter for/his Mexican moving/picture (Eisenstein in/helmet)." 12.5 x 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - Same inscription as on Copies 2-3 above, but in a different hand. 12.5 x 17.3 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 346
1 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 4.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Tissé, center, with his arms around the shoulders of Liceaga, right, and another matador, left. Empty stands of bull ring in background.
- Cut off, but part of second matador and stands visible.
item 347
Variant of Item 346 above.
Physical Description: 8 x 10.7 cm. (Negative)
item 348
2 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "8J22305" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 7.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Liceaga standing in arena wearing a decorated sombrero.
- Eisenstein adjusting brim of sombrero.
Six strips of contact prints. Various shots of Alexandrov in the arena, making passes with a cape. Empty stands in background.
item 349
Two prints on each strip.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 4.6 x 8.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 4 x 9 cm.
item 349a
2 ½ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: First print cut off.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 9.1 cm.
item 349b
2 ¼ prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Panchromatic" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 8.5 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Passing cape around himself from the left. Print is spotted.
- Passing cape to his right.
- Cut off only empty stands visible.
item 349c
2 ½ prints on each strip.
Physical Description: First print cut off, but shadow and portion of left leg correspond to Item 349b no. 2 above.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of each strip.
Physical Description: Copy 1- 4 x 8.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 4.6 x 9.2 cm.
item 350
Two contact prints on a strip. Both show scenes of women in mantillas on upper level of stands in bullring. Eisenstein, other crew members, and camera in background.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 8.3 cm.
item 351
Eisenstein leaning on rail at upper level of bullring stands. Camera on tripod to his right, unidentified man in straw hat in background, left. See Item 338b no. 3 above.
Physical Description: 9.5 x 14.4 cm.
item 352
Two similar scenes of Eisenstein, right, showing fallen picador how to pose. See Items 137-139 above.
item 353
On back, stamped in blue: "Photo by/G. Alexandrov".
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: 9.5 x 14.4 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 354
Eisenstein, left, standing behind Tissé, at camera, who is filming two young women on a small balcony outside the arena, near the entrance. See also Items 617b and 976 below.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9 x 13.7 cm.
item 355
Liceaga, left, and Eisenstein, both in street clothes, seated on a stone lover's bench (seats face in opposite directions) in patio or plaza.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 14 cm.
item 356
From left, Alexandrov, unidentified man, Eisenstein, Liceaga, Tissé, standing with arms linked outside a large corrugated metal building. (Possibly an airport?)
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.3 cm.
item 357
Same setting as Item 356 above. Liceaga, left, shaking hands with Raccini. Third man partially visible at extreme right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "[Mauro?] [A?] Raccini ("Rigoletto")."
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.3 cm.
item 358
Large group of men in same setting as Items 356-357 above. Left, unidentified man seen second from left in Item 356 above. Third from left, Raccini. Center, Liceaga.
Physical Description: 9.5 x 13.4 cm.
Subseries:
Chichen Itza, Yucatan
item 359
The Castillo, with a group of Indigenous women beside base of stairs, and members of crew at corner, far right. Bush, lower left corner; tree branches, upper right corner.
Physical Description: 5 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 13.8 x 19 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 - Pasted on back and folded over lower front portion of photos, a typewritten note on thin paper: "'THUNDER OVER MEXICO'/A memory of early Mayan culture….the Cabrera castle [sic] in Chichen/Ytz'a ]sic] in Yucatan. Here Sergei Eisenstein made many of the sequences/in 'Thunder Over Mexico.'" 20.4 x 25.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 5 - On back, remains of brown paper and discolored area where note evidently was attached at one time. 20.4 x 25.9 cm.
item 359a
The Castillo, with a group of people at the base of the stairs. Bush and tree as in Item 359 above.
Physical Description: Negative; 2 copies
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10 and 8.3 x 10.6 cm.
item 360
Tissé, seated on ground behind camera at far left, and Eisenstein, seated on trunk, at base of Castillo stairs. Unidentified man seated on steps.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9 x 13.6 cm.
item 361
Two unidentified men on stairs of Castillo. Above them on the stairs, an Indigenous women.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.6 cm.
item 362
Eisenstein, seated left, and Alexandrov, standing beside camera, on top of the Castillo. Temple of the Warriors in the background.
Physical Description: 4 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions." 12.8 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - Cut off, only Eisenstein and portion of Temple of the Warriors visible. 8.9 x 12.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein with his/assistant Alexandroff, [sic]/at Mayan ruins in/Mexico/(Eisenstein in helmet)." 12.5 x 17.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - Same inscription, but in a different hand. 12.5 x 17.3 cm. Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 363
Same setting as Item 362 above. Portion of the wall of the temple atop the Castillo now seen at right and center.
Physical Description: 3 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." 12.6 x 17.6 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - On back, written in pencil:"Sergei Eisenstein with his/assistant Alexandroff, [sic] at/Mayan ruins in Mexico/(Eisenstein in helmet)." 12.5 x 17.3 cm. Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 364
Tissé, left, with camera, unidentified man, Eisenstein, on steps of the Temple of the Warriors. Eisenstein seated beside stone serpent's head.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.5 cm.
item 365
Indigenous man standing on a trunk and leaning against a wall of the Temple of the Warriors, upper level. At right, unidentified man wearing hat; Tissé kneeling with camera; Eisenstein standing behind him; unidentified man at extreme right.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov;" written in pencil: "9" 13.5 x 18.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein posing an Indian/at Mayan ruins, Mexico, for/his moving picture./(Eisenstein in helmet)."" 12.5 x 17.3 cm.
item 366
Left, Alexandrov supporting young Indigenous man seen in Item 365 above on his shoulders; right, Eisenstein stands looking at them.
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions.." 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein posing an Indian/at Mayan ruins, Mexico, for his/moving picture/(Eisenstein in helmet)." 12.6 x 17.3 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 367
Same setting as Items 365-366 above. Indigenous man on truck. Three unidentified men, one behind camera and two steadying it to the side, and Eisenstein, in background.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 11.3 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.2 x 10.4 cm.
item 368
Eisenstein seated in front of stone serpent pillar at entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors. See Item 169 above for Indigenous man in same position.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14 cm.
item 369
Four men and three women standing in front of ruins, possibly Temple of the Jaguar and the Ball Court. Man in center is Hunter Kimbrough, rest are unidentified.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14 cm.
item 370
Three women (and elderly man) seen in Item 369 above seated among ruins at same location.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.2 x 13.9 cm.
Mayan funeral sequence. See Items 183-187 above.
item 371
Men carrying coffin containing "corpse" over a narrow wooden walkway amid henequen plants. In front of them, center, Eisenstein, and Tissé with camera.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9 x 13.8 cm.
item 372
Same setting and subjects as Item 371 above. Tissé at camera, with cloth over his head. Eisenstein standing below him, in left profile.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.4 cm.
item 373
Eisenstein posing men on either side of head of coffin. Camera at extreme right.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm. (Negative)
item 373a
Close-up of Eisenstein and two men at head of coffin; head of "corpse" also seen.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 374
Posing three Indigenous men, chins resting on top of coffin. Alexandrov, far left, back to photographer; Eisenstein, kneeling, wearing a sombrero, on opposite side of coffin from the others; Tissé standing behind him. Stone wall in background.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9.2 x 13.7 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 375
Same setting as Item 374 above. Three Indigenous people as before, with backs to photographer; Tissé standing on opposite side of coffin; Eisenstein in sombrero kneeling in front of him. Other men visible in background.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14 cm.
item 376
Left, Eisenstein with camera; right, Alexandrov and Tissé posed with chins on top of coffin.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions." 12.8 x 17.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein with his assistantsTissé and Alexandroff [sic], at work in/Mexico (Eisenstein in helmet)." 12.5 x 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - Same inscription; lower right corner torn off. 12.5 x 17.5 cm.
item 377
Same setting as Items 374-376 above. Eisenstein, seated, facing photographer, at left; behind him, standing, Alexandrov. In background, three Indigenous men with chins on one side of coffin, three Indigenous women on opposite side.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.5 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 378
Same subjects and setting as Items 374-377 above, Eisenstein at left, holding reflector. Tissé at camera, Indigenous people grouped around coffin.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm. (Negative)
item 379
Unidentified man at left, behind camera; either Tissé or Alexandrov placing bowl on top of coffin.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm. (Negative)
item 380
Same setting as subjects as Items 374-379 above. Tissé at right, behind camera, Eisenstein second from right, on far side of coffin.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: On back of each copy, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9 x 13.9 cm.
item 381
Eisenstein, left, and Tissé (?) kneeling at camera, which is focussed on Indigenous women bending forward over a trunk.
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in pencil: "Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico/(posing an Indian for his/Mexican picture)/Eisenstein in helmet." 12.7 x 17.5 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - Same inscription, but in a different hand. 12.7 x 17.4 cm.
Physical Description: Negative - 10 x 12.5 cm.
Subseries:
Izamal, Yucatan , 21-28 April 1931
item 382
Taken on roof of church. Tissé, far left, head under cloth on camera. Three men at right, holding reflector; man kneeling, right, steadying leg of camera. In front of camera, Eisenstein posing Indigenous penitent with arms tied to cactus stem. See Item 193 above.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 13.3 cm.
Subseries:
Progreso, Yucatan , circa 29 April 1931
item 383
Eisenstein standing on dock beside stern of ship, on which its name is printed: "Coahuila;" and below, "Progreso."
Physical Description: 8.5 x 13.5 cm.
item 384
Group of men on ship's deck. Left, barber cutting man's hair; behind him, Hunter Kimbrough smoking a pipe.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 13 cm.
item 385
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "X".
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Identical to Item 194 no. 3 above.
- (2, 3) Similar shots of unidentified man lying on his right side at front of low barge or boat. Another man seated under canopy at rear.
Subseries:
Hacienda Tetlapayac, Hidalgo State , May-August 1931
item 386
Same carriage as seen in Item 217 above. Eisenstein, holding camera, seated beside driver. Tissé (?) standing beside carriage door. Another man partially visible at extreme right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "7".
Physical Description: 9.1 x 13.5 cm.
item 387
Eisenstein in Hacienda courtyard standing beside wooden frame of Corpus Christi bull. See Items 216 above and 388 below.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "7".
Physical Description: 9 x 12.8 cm.
item 388
Filming scene with "Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) and Corpus Christi bull. From left, unidentified man holding reflector; "Sebastian" crouching beneath bull; unidentified man with reflector; Tissé seated on ground, filming; Alexandrov, kneeling to his right; Agustin Leiva (arm raised) standing behind Alexandrov; Eisenstein standing beside Leiva.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "gl. Print."
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.9 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.6 cm.
item 389
Two Mexican men standing on the side of a rocky hill. One at left carries a rifle and wears two cartridge belts crossed over his chest; one at right has a serape over his left shoulder. Behind them, higher on the hill, Eisenstein standing behind camera.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.2 x 13.9 cm.
item 390
Eisenstein kneeling, left. "Sebastian" buried to his chest in the sand; "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) standing behind him.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.6 cm. (Negative)
item 391
Group of people gathered around mule-drawn trolley bus on railroad track.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On front, lower left margin, an "X" in pencil. On back, written in black ink: "The Hacienda's private bus/from railroad station - Distance/three or four miles." Below, written in pencil and in a different hand: "The man at X is/Sergei M. Eisenstein." 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On front, lower left margin, an "X" in black ink. On back, written in pencil: "The hacienda's private bus from railroad/station (distance three or four miles)?Man at X is Sergei Eisenstein/The hacienda belongs [sic] to Col. Salazar [sic]/Eisenstein's party will be guest at/this hacienda where they will make/a portion of the Mexican picture)>" 15.9 x 23.7 cm.
Various shots of Eisenstein and a young woman wearing a checked culotte with wide leg in the courtyard of the Hacienda.
item 392
Standing side by side
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.5 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.6 cm.
item 393
Standing side by side
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.5 cm.
item 393a
Standing side by side
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.6 cm
item 394
Eisenstein is lying on the ground, looking out from between the spread legs of the girl's culotte.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: 13.5 x 18.5 cm.
item 394a
Eisenstein is lying on the ground, looking out from between the spread legs of the girl's culotte.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 10.8 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.1 x 10.4 cm.
item 394b
Eisenstein is lying on the ground, looking out from between the spread legs of the girl's culotte.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.6 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 395
Eisenstein, wearing a striped bathrobe, leaning against a balcony railing.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: ""Eisenstein at/Tetlapayac--/Main entrance to/Hacienda in Background."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 13.6 cm.
Eisenstein in business suit on horseback in courtyard of Hacienda.
item 396
Facing camera.
Physical Description: On back, written in black ink: "On Hacienda."
Physical Description: 8.7 x 13.8 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 397
Trying to pull horse away from drinking fountain.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 8.8 x 14 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 8.9 x 13.9 cm.
item 398
In Hacienda courtyard. From left, woman on horseback; Eisenstein standing; young boy on horseback, center foreground; unidentified man wearing white plus-fours, dark shoes, jacket and beret, standing, right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "3".
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
item 399
Eisenstein and Salvador Baguez seated on steps in the Hacienda courtyard.
Physical Description: On back, typed: "Eisenstein & Salvador Baguez, staff artist/of LA Times, on hacienda."
Physical Description: 13.7 x 18.6 cm.
item 400
From left, Saldivar, Eisenstein and Baguez, seated on a rise of ground in front of a maguey plant.
Physical Description: On back, typed: ""Saldivar, Eisenstein & Baguez.""
Physical Description: 13.8 x 18.9 cm.
item 401
In courtyard of Hacienda, Eisenstein, left, with left foot on edge of low fountain. Seated, right, unidentified man seen in Item 398 above.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 13.8 cm.
Various shots of Eisenstein and man seen in Items 398 and 401 above clowning beside a maguey plant. They wear serapes and sombreros and in some shots have a large gourd.
item 402
Seated in front of maguey.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO" and "82."
Physical Description: 8 x 10.7 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.1 x 9.9 cm.
item 403
Standing, shaking hands.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.4 cm.
item 404
Standing, looking off right.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.5 cm.
item 405
Man pretending to hit Eisenstein with gourd.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9 x 14.2 cm.
item 406
Eisenstein alone.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "2".
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.1 cm.
item 407
On back, typed: "Eisenstein & friend."
Physical Description: 12.6 x 18.8 cm.
Various shots of Eisenstein and man seen in Items 398, 401-407 above, riding donkeys in courtyard of Hacienda.
item 408
On back of each, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 408a
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.2 x 13.8 cm.
item 408b
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14 cm.
item 408c
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9 x 14.1 cm.
item 408d
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 13.4 cm.
item 408e
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 13.9 cm.
item 409
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 13.9 cm.
item 409a
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14 cm.
item 410
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 13.7 cm.
item 410a
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.3 cm.
item 410b
On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.2 cm.
item 410c
On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO" and "82."
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11 cm.
item 410d
On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO" and "87."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 11.1 cm.
item 411
From left, Alexandrov, man seen in Items 398 and 401-410a above and Eisenstein, standing in front of Hacienda out-buildings.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Eisenstein friend. G. Alexandrov;" and "3."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.3 cm.
item 412
Alexandrov, left; unidentified young woman, center; and man seen in Item 398 and 401- 411 above standing on trolley tracks. Unseen person, probably Eisenstein, holding gourd between Alexandrov and young woman.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO" and "87."
Physical Description: 8.3 x 11 cm.
Julio Saldivar in various poses.
item 413
On horseback in courtyard of Hacienda. On back, written in pencil: "Sr.? Julio Salvidar/former owner/of Tetlepayac."
Physical Description: Stamped in purple: "A/Kug- Art./Print/The Best/Feb 28 1934." Stamped in blue: "565" over which is written in pencil "A65."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.9 cm.
item 414
Close-up, head and shoulders, taken in front of spiny cactus so that it appears to be his hair or hat.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 8.4 x 13.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 8.4 x 13.5 cm.
item 415
Lying on the ground, holding teacup and saucer; looking over his shoulder at young German Shepard pup. Rocks and undergrowth in background.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.6 cm.
item 416
Sitting in a large marguay plant.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Sr. ? Julio Saldivar/former owner of/Tetlapayac." Stamped in purple: "AM PHOTO."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.8 cm.
item 417
Seated on low wall, from left; man seen in Items 398 and 401-412 above; Eisenstein; young woman seen in Item 412 above; Julio Saldivar; unidentified man wearing sombrero and diamond-patterned sweater and playing a saxophone. In front of group a dog is standing.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 9.3 x 13.1 cm.
Similar shots of Saldivar lying on the ground with his head in the lap of a young woman, who is holding an umbrella over them.
item 418
Unidentified man seated in the background.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 13.8 cm.
item 418a
Taken from the side.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Three similar shots of a group of people seated on rocks, trees with Spanish moss in the background.
item 419
Seven people; second from left, partially hidden by woman, Eisenstein is standing. Saldivar. Other three men and two women unidentified.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 13.8 cm.
item 420
Closer shot of woman, third from left and two men at right in Item 419 above; also Saldivar, seated below them.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.6 cm.
item 421
Closer shot of woman third from left and two men at right in Item 419 above; also Saldivar, seated below them.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.6 cm.
item 422
Two unidentified men standing on either side of a bull, each with a hand holding its horns. Other cattle, low stone fence and maguey plants in background.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil; "2."
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.7 cm.
Four strips of contact prints showing various scenes of dancers at Death Day fiesta.
Physical Description: On back of each strip, written in pencil: "X."
item 423
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3 x 12 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Dancer in skeleton mask and naval uniform, left, and dancer in skeleton mask and cutaway coat, right.
- Dancer in naval uniform on stage, Tissé, back to photographer, standing behind camera, right.
- Similar to no. 2, but Eisenstein is at Tissé's left.
item 424
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Dancer in naval uniform.
- Blurred figure.
- Unidentified man in business suit seated beside a woman with a skeleton mask pushed on top of her head.
item 425
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 12 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Eisenstein standing to the left of a dancer wearing skeleton mask and long mantilla.
- Dancer in mantilla and dancer in skeleton mask and charro costume.
- Full-figure shot of dancers from no. 2.
item 426
Three prints on a strip. See Item 240 above.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.2
Scope and Contents:
- Six dancers, three men and three women.
- Dancers on platform; Tissé second from left in foreground, seated on trunk; Eisenstein standing beside him.
- Close-up of three male dancers seen in nos. 1 and 2.
Eisenstein with skeleton dressed in woman's clothes. See Item 246 above
item 427
Embracing skeleton.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 12.3 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.6 cm
item 428
"Dancing" with skeleton, arms raised.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.6 cm (Negative)
item 429
Alexandrov, right and policeman or soldier, left, standing in front of stall displaying piñatas(?). Large doll or piñata dressed as cowboy behind them.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue; "AM PHOTO."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 11.1 cm
Six strips of contact prints, showing scenes around cemetery of a church. See 434a Item 247-252 above.
Physical Description: On back of each strip written in pencil: "X."
item 430
Two prints on a strip, showing slightly different views of Eisenstein sitting on a flat tomb, eating.
Physical Description: 2.9 x 7.8 cm.
item 431
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 12 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Group of people gathered around a tomb.
- (2, 3) Eisenstein with child seated on same tomb; he is arranging skull child holds as a doll.
item 432
Three prints on a strip, showing slightly different views of Eisenstein and an unidentified man in dark trousers seated with a Mexican family around a tomb.
Physical Description: 3.2 x 10.9 cm.
item 433
Three prints on a strip, similar to Item 432 above, but man in dark trousers in standing.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.7 cm.
item 434
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.1 x 11.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Heavy set man leaning against tomb, on which are candles, a skull, a photograph and other objects.
- Group of Mexicans beside same tomb; Tissé lying on opposite side of tomb with camera.
- Unidentified man lying on his stomach on top of a tomb.
item 434a
Three prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Nearly identical to Item 434 no. 3 above.
- (2, 3) Man with back to photographer beside camera; 4 monks seated on hill in front of him. Church tower in left background.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa Sept-Nov. 1931
item 435
Taken at Tectihuacan. Eisenstein and Tissé (beside camera) standing in front of Temple of the Sun. Two Indigenous people wrapped in blankets on first level behind them.
Physical Description: 7.8 x 12.7 cm.
Two strips of contact prints, showing a young Indigenous man being filmed in front of the statue of Chalchiuítilcue, the water goddess. Probably taken at the National Museum of Anthropology.
Physical Description: On back of each, written in pencil: "77." Stamped in blue: Foto Mantel/[…]nas 11."
item 436
4 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3 x 14.6 cm.
item 436a
2 ½ (?) prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 9.5 cm.
item 437
Close-up of Indigenous person in front of statue of Chalchihuítloicue.
Physical Description: 8 x 11 cm. (Negatives)
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 438
Medium shot of Eisenstein seated in front of statue of Chalchihuítlicue.
Physical Description: 8 x 11 cm. (Negative)
Two similar shots of Alexandrov, Agustin Leiva, and Eisenstein with large posters.
Physical Description: On back of each, stamped in blue: "26."
Physical Description: 8.7 x 14.7 cm.
item 439a
Unidentified woman at far right.
Eisenstein with statue of bleeding Christ, in doorway of church(?).
item 440
Medium shot, full-figure.
Physical Description: 8.5 x 12.4 cm.
item 441
Close-up, waist up.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.5 cm.
item 441
Various shots of Eisenstein, Tissé, Alexandrov and two unidentified men amid tall, single-stemmed cacti.
item 442
Long shot of all but Tissé in large touring car.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14.2 cm.
item 443
Medium shot of same group in car.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 12.7 cm.
item 444
Medium shot of all but Alexandrov in car.
Physical Description: 9 x 12.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 445
Medium shot of same group in car.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 12.8 cm.
item 446
Eisenstein standing in front of clump of cacti.
Physical Description: 9 x 12.8 cm.
item 447
Alexandrov standing in same clump.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12.5 x 17.8 cm.
item 447
Various shots of Eisenstein, Tissé, Alexandrov, and two unidentified men in front of giant tree-like cactus.
item 448
Long shot of Alexandrov (at wheel), Tissé, and another man in large touring car; unidentified man in sombrero and knee boots standing by car.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "X."
Physical Description: 9 x 12.7 cm.
item 449
Medium shot of Alexandrov and unidentified man in car, waving.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 12.5 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 450
Medium shot of Tissé, Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and unidentified man in car.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 12.4 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 451
Tissé, Eisenstein and unidentified man seated in front of cactus.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.7 cm.
item 452
Eisenstein standing in front of cactus.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.7 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 453
Alexandrov standing in front of cactus.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Grigori 'Grisha' Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 9 x 12.8 cm.
item 453
Various similar shots of Eisenstein leaning against or seated on a tall, round cactus in clump of shorter, barrel-shaped cacti.
item 454
8.6 x 12.6 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 456
8.6 x 12.7 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 457
9 x 12.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 458
Eisenstein and unidentified man seen in Items 442-453 above seated in front of clump of cacti.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 12.5 cm.
Subseries:
Mexico City , 12-20 Nov. 1931
Two scenes of President Rubio seated on the sand.
item 459
Unidentified woman in sun hat with arm on his shoulder.
Physical Description: 7 x 9.7 cm.
item 460
Seated with two children on either side of him.
Physical Description: 5.7 x 8.9 cm.
Eisenstein standing on roof (?) of building; crowds in street or plaza below.
item 461
In background, a church, with doors decorated.
Physical Description: 12.2 x 17 cm.
item 462
In background, trees and crowd.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 11.5 cm.
Two similar shots of five men seated on steps leading into a large building. Eisenstein, second from left, Tissé, right. Others unidentified.
item 463
Long shot of group, showing arched entrance.
Physical Description: 9 x 12.8 cm.
item 463a
Close-up of group.
Physical Description: 9 x 12.9 cm.
item 464
Eisenstein standing on wide balcony with three unidentified men. City in background.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.4 cm.
Two similar shots of seven men in front of a van parked in front of a large government (?) building. Tissé, second from left; Eisenstein, center; Alexandrov, third from right. Others unidentified.
item 465
All standing.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 18.6 cm.
item 466
Tissé and man to his left seated on rear bumper of van.
Physical Description: 12.9 x 17.8 cm.
Scenes from parade for athletic-military maneuvers , 20 Nov. 1931
item 467
From left, unidentified man; in car, Tissé (with camera), unidentified man, Eisenstein; policeman on motorcycle.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 18.6 cm.
item 468
Taken from in front of car . Eisenstein in front passenger seat; in back; standing, two unidentified men and Tissé (with camera) standing on running board, a policeman.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 12.2. cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 469
At left, rows of athletes searching. At right, Eisenstein seated on front bumper of car; Tissé and unidentified man in car.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 12.2 cm.
item 470-470k
Passport photos of Eisenstein in suit and striped tie.
Physical Description: All badly browned
Physical Description: All approximately 8.7 x 12.8 cm.
Physical Description: And negative with each, 10 x 12.5 cm.
Physical Description: 470a - On front, written in reverse: "Best wishes/from/[…]ari/[….] Beach, Conn./U. S. A." On back, written in pencil: "This I like best-/Weston/I shall finish."
Two views of a portrait of Eisenstein.
item 471
Medium shot, showing Eisenstein framed in archway, with a length of film in his hands.
Physical Description: On back, written in black ink; "[Three lines in Russian];" written in pencil, in a different hand: "Eisenstein/by[Montenegro]?" Stamped in blue: "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 12 x 16.3 cm.
item 471a
Close-up of Eisenstein's head.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.5 x 16.4 cm.
item 472
Man, (probably Eisenstein), at camera filming masked and costumed participants in fiesta or ceremony. Possibly taken in or near Mexico City.
Physical Description: 8.1 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 473
Eisenstein standing beside camera in front of large palm trees. Possibly taken near Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.8 cm.
item 474
Eisenstein straddling a palm branch. Possibly in Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.2 x 18.6 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 475
Eisenstein leaning against a pole supporting an overhang. Leaning against opposite side of pole, a heavy-set man wearing knee boots, a holster with pistol and a flat-brimmed hat. Possibly taken in or near Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.1 cm.
item 476
Group of 9 people on horseback in dense underbrush. Center, man seen in Item 475 above and Eisenstein. Others unidentified.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 17.9 cm.
item 477
Eisenstein, center, and two unidentified men standing in front of thatch-roofed hut with drying coconuts on the ground around them. Palm trees and other foliage in background. Possibly taken in or near Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.1 cm.
item 478
From left, Eisenstein, young Indigenous man, Dr. Best-Maugard. Eisenstein and Best- Maugard have their arms around the Indigenous man. Palm trees and building with balcony in background. Possibly taken in or near Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.1 cm.
item 479
Three unidentified men, left, and Eisenstein, in front of tall thatch-roofed building. Possibly taken in or near Tehuantepec.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18.9 cm.
item 480
Eisenstein and Tissé in front of building with white columns. Palm trees and fence in front of building. Windmill in background. Possibly taken in Mérida.
Physical Description: 15.1 x 23.7 cm.
item 481
Unidentified person, left, and Eisenstein standing on roof or balcony of building with formal park or plaza below. Possibly taken in Mérida or Izamal.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
item 482
Eisenstein standing on roof of church. Bell tower in background, left. Taken from below. Possibly taken in either Mexico City or Mérida.
Physical Description: 12.9 x 18.1 cm.
item 483
Eisenstein, bending over. Taken from behind. Church in background. Possibly taken in either Mexico City or Mérida.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 484
From left, unidentified man in Eisenstein's bathrobe, Tissé holding him by the arms, and Eisenstein. Standing in front of hotel(?) doors.
Physical Description: On backs, stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov." Written in pencil: "print."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 15 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.6 cm.
item 485
From left, Eisenstein, unidentified woman, Dr. Best-Maugard, Alexandrov, seated beneath cloth canopy. Possibly taken at Xochimilco.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.4 cm.
Physical Description: And two negatives, 3.4 x 3.8 cm. And 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 486
In foreground, standing, Eisenstein. Behind him, on horseback, a man and two women, all unidentified. Possibly taken at the Hacienda Tetlapayac.
Physical Description: 12.5 x 18.8 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Right profile close-ups of Eisenstein wearing pith helmet.
Physical Description: 3 negatives
item 487
People and buildings in background.
Physical Description: 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 487a
Eisenstein, wearing a dark leather jacket, slumped in a chair, pith helmet over his eyes.
Physical Description: 13.7 x 18.8 cm.
item 487b
Eisenstein sitting on step at left. Unidentified person seated behind him on his left.
Physical Description: 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 488
Man with hat sitting cross-legged in chair.
item 489
Woman and man sitting, looking up.
item 490
Eisenstein standing on trunk on stone steps, behind camera.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
item 491
Eisenstein playing tennis.
Physical Description: Photo appears to have been cut or torn along left side.
Physical Description: On back, written in blue ink: "[Two lines in Russian;]" and below, in pencil in another hand: ["What could be more educational?!"/(Eisenstein's writing)]."
Physical Description: 6.5 x 8.2 cm.
item 492
Eisenstein standing beside one of a pair of decorated pillars which flank a statue of a saint on a tall pedestal. Unidentified man partially visible standing behind opposite pillar.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.6 cm.
item 493
Two similar shots of Eisenstein lying on the ground, his head under a dark cloth covering the camera.
Physical Description: Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 7.6 cm.
item 494
Two similar scenes of a group of people in and around a car parked in front of a building, the door of which is open. In car, with camera. Tissé; standing in doorway, wearing pith helmet, Eisenstein.
Physical Description: Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.5 x 7.7 cm.
item 495
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "8J…"and "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.5 x 12.5 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Unidentified man and small boy standing together.
- (2, 3) Eisenstein standing between the two.
item 496
From left, Tissé, Eisenstein and an unidentified man seated in large, shabby bathroom.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 13.8 cm x 18.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - Cut off so that only Eisenstein and unidentified man are seen. 9.9 c 13.8 cm.
item 497
Eisenstein, back to camera, wearing bathrobe, being chased by Tissé in interior of large house or hotel.
Physical Description: On back, typed: "Eisenstein"; stamped in blue: "S.M. Eisenstein/Collective/Productions" and "Photo by/G. Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 10.6 x 16.3 cm.
item 498
Eisenstein walking in plaza or street; building with Moorish-arch arcades in background.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4".
Physical Description: 9.1 x 14 cm.
item 499
Taken from inside archway or arcade, with two women standing at extreme left. On steps beyond arch, Eisenstein (standing beside camera on top step), Tissé (seated on second step), and others; in the street, a carriage pulled by a white horse. In background, building with "'El Cielo'/Miscelanea en General/[Two other lines, undecipherable]" printed on wall.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "4."
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - Top right hand corner torn off. 8.8 x 13.3 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 9.4 x 13.9 cm.
item 500
Eisenstein and either Kimbrough or Dr. Best-Maugard seated side by side in chairs facing in opposite directions. Unidentified woman in background.
Physical Description: 9.1 x 9.5 cm.
item 501-503
Shots of Eisenstein playing with a monkey in what appears to be a large park.
Physical Description: 8.7 x 12.6 cm.
item 504
Eisenstein squatting in a field, drinking from a coconut.
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.4 cm.
item 505
From left, Tissé, unidentified man, Dr. Best-Maugard (?), and Eisenstein standing in a field. Tissé stands in front of camera. Palm trees and unidentified man in background.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.3 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Two similar shots of Eisenstein, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and an unidentified women beside a large tree in a garden or patio.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 12.8 cm.
item 506
On back, written in blue ink: "Diego Rivera L/Sergei Eisenstein R."
item 506a
On back, written in pencil in a different hand, same inscription as on Item 506 above.
item 507
From left, standing in front of a Pan-American trimotor plane, Tissé, unidentified man, Eisenstein.
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.6 cm.
item 508
Group of men sitting and standing beside a single-engine plane. Eisenstein, seated, second from right; rest unidentified.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
item 509
Eisenstein seated with unidentified man and woman on a grassy lawn. In the background, a large body of water, with two cruise boats(?) at dock. Branches of willow tree across top of photo.
Physical Description: 10.4 x 15.6 cm.
item 510
Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 7.6 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Alexandrov leaning against one column of an arcade; another figure and a long, low building in the background.
- Eisenstein in silhouette on a beach; boat and water in the background.
item 511
2 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.8 x 8.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Alexandrov leaning against one column of an arcade; another figure and a long, low building in the background.
- (2, 3) Similar shots of Eisenstein (second from left) and other unidentified men with four boats. Three boats are drawn up on a beach, the fourth is some distance out on the water.
item 512
Seated on a dock, with water and shore line in background, from left, Alexandrov, Kimbrough, Eisenstein. Two unidentified figures with backs to camera at far left.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copies 1-2 - On back, written in pencil: "From left to right, facing the/camera:/Alexandroff [sic]/Hunter Kimbrough/Sergei Eisenstein/A rest hour during the making/of Eisenstein's Mexican moving/picture. Mexico, 1931." 17.3 x 27.9 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 3 - On back, written in pencil but in a different hand, the same inscription as on Copies 1-2 above. 17.7 x 27.4 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 4 - 9.2 x 14.3 cm.
item 513
Eisenstein seated, center, amid a group of 10 men on a beach, some seated, some standing. They are eating and drinking from ceramic cups.
Physical Description: 12.8 x 18 cm.
Various shots of Tissé , in canoe, with small alligator alongside.
item 517
8.3 x 10.9 cm. (Negative)
item 519
2 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4 x 9.1 cm.
item 520
Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 7.6 cm.
item 521
Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 7.6 cm.
item 522
Alligator crawling over a leg of the camera tripod.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Abrirle los ojos y brillo/en los dientes;" and below, in a different hand: "["Open your eyes & show your teeth"].
Physical Description: 8.6 x 11.2 cm.
item 523
Eisenstein(?) standing in shallow water holding alligator by tail and one front leg.
Physical Description: 9.4 x 14.5 cm.
item 524
Close-up, right profile, of Tissé, wearing pith helmet, in front of building. A number of people in background. There are two marks or scars on his cheek just at the side of his mouth.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "77."
Physical Description: 8.8 x 14.6 cm.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 525
Tissé (?) leaning against fluted pedestal on top of which is a large two-handled urn. Urn and pedestal each ca. 6 feet high.
Physical Description: 8.6 x 12.5 cm.
item 526
Dr. Best-Maugard, Kimbrough, and Tissé standing with camera on wide sandy area in front of thatched hut and other buildings.
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: Copies 2-4 - On back, written in pencil: "From left to right:/A Mexican gentleman (Dr. Best)/Hunter Kimbrough/Edward [sic] Tissé /(assisting Eisenstein in the making/of his Mexican moving picture.)/Mexico, 1931. 17.8 x 27.2 cm.
item 527
Alexandrov seated on an adobe balustrade beside a large jug with legs and handles.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Grisha/Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 8.7 x 13.6 cm.
item 528
Dr. Best-Maugard and Alexandrov on balustrade of building overlooking a city. Large church in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO."
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.9 cm.
item 529
Alexandrov, in left profile, seated on carved railing. Site of Item 528 above in background.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO."
Physical Description: 9.1 x 12.1 cm
Alexandrov and another man (Kimbrough or Best Maugard?) standing in a sandy area with palm trees in background.
Physical Description: Two strips of contact prints.
item 530
2 1/3 prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "8J223…" and "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edges of strip.
Physical Description: 4.6 x 8.8 cm
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, blurred.
- Alexandrov.
- Other man.
item 530a
One complete and two partial prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.5 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, but appears to be identical with Item 530 no. 2 above.
- Identical to Item 530 no. 3 above.
- Cut off, unidentifiable.
item 531
Alexandrov seated on the ground, drinking from a coconut. Large reeds in the background.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 532
Alexandrov, right, and unidentified man seated on running board of small car. Trees, shrubbery and building in background.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil; "Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 10.4 x 15.6 cm.
item 533
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "10," stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[,,,]nas 11."
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Alexandrov, second from right, standing on guardrail. Mountains in background. Three other men, all unidentified.
- (2,3) Similar shots Of mountains.
Various shots of Hunter Kimbrough and young Mexican man in canoe.
item 534
Seated beside unidentified young woman in similar shirt. His arm is around her waist and they are leaning slightly apart.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 11 cm.
Physical Description: 2 Copies
item 534a
Similar to Item 534 above, but they are closer together.
Physical Description: 8.2 x 10.5 cm. (Negative)
item 535
Cut-out close-up of Alexandrov. A portion of the sleeve of the woman's blouse has been pasted on his shoulder to hide the woman's hand.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Tissé [marked out]/Eisenstein's)/photo man;" and above, in a different hand: "Alexandrov."
Physical Description: 11.7 x 17.3 cm. (irregular)
Various shots of Hunter Kimbrough and young Mexican man in canoe.
item 536
3 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 4.1 x 12 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 4.2 x 12.6 cm.
Scope and Contents: (4) Cut off, but on Copy 2, Kimbrough's head can be seen.
item 536a
Two contact prints on a strip, showing Kimbrough, walking along a beach. Identical to Item 536 no. 4 above.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 7.5 cm.
item 537
2 ¼ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "..22341" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.8 x 8.8 cm.
Scope and Contents: (1) Kimbrough wearing dark jacket and holding rifle standing in shallow water in front of large sailboat.
item 537a
3 ½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "8J22341" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.4 x 12.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Cut off, but identical to Item 537 no. 1 above.
- (2,3) Identical to Item 537 nos. 2, 3 above.
item 537b
Enlargement of Item 537a no. 3 above.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.3 cm.
item 538
2½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 9.8 cm.
item 539
9.3 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - Creased and wrinkled.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Kimbrough."
item 540
9.3 x 14.3 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Various shots of Kimbrough and others in and around sailboats and canoes. Location probably the same as for items 536-540 above.
item 541
2 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "8J223401" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 4.2 x 8.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1, 2) Kimbrough in boat, securing sail; unidentified man standing in bow; young Mexican seen in Items 536-540 above standing in shallow water beside bow.
- (3) Cut off, only top of palm tree visible.
item 542
2 ½ contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.1 x 10.4 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off, stretch of beach with palm trees at right.
- Alexandrov standing by bow of sailboat, Kimbrough and unidentified man seated in boat.
- Long shot of boat with two figures in it. Palm tree in foreground.
item 543
3 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 4.8 x 12.8 cm,
Scope and Contents:
- Cut off.
- Group of people, all unidentified, in front of car and thatched hut.
- Four men on beach, row boat and sail boat in background.
- Unidentified man wearing pith helmet, dark jacket and white shorts wading out to row boat; another man at side of boat.
item 544
3 1/3 contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 5 x 12.7 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1,2) Unidentified man seen in Item 543 no.4 above climbing into boat.
- (3) Kimbrough, holding rifle, standing at bow of boat.
- (4) Cut off, only Kimbrough visible.
item 545
Kimbrough standing in bow of boat, smoking a cigarette, with alligator draped over bow at his feet.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough"
item 546
Close-up of Kimbrough, left, and unidentified man standing in a boat holding a large fish on a line.
Physical Description: 9.2 x 14.1 cm.
item 547
Hunter Kimbrough asleep on his left side, his head resting on various pieces of luggage.
Physical Description: 9.3 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 2 - On back, written in pencil: "Hunter Kimbrough."
item 548
Kimbrough, right, kneeling beside an unidentified man reading notes or letters. Building in background.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 14.2 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Hunter Kimbrough in city park or plaza with two unidentified women. Both pictures slightly out of focus.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in purple
Physical Description: 18. 7 x 11.6 cm.
item 549
Standing between the women, his arms around their shoulders.
item 549a
Seated on the grass with the woman at right in Item 549 above.
Kimbrough and two unidentified men standing by the wheel and engine room telegraph on the deck of a ship.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "13"
Physical Description: 7.2 x 11.8 cm.
item 550
Kimbrough, left, and man in business suit and fedora.
item 551
Kimbrough, right, at wheel, and man in work clothes and straw (?) hat.
item 552
Two unidentified men together.
Group of men on deck of ship with three large sea turtles.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "13"
item 553
Four men holding turtles. Kimbrough is second from right.
Physical Description: 7.2 x 11.7 cm.
item 554
Man at right in Item 553 above and another unidentified man with turtle in net.
Physical Description: 7.1 x 11.9 cm.
item 555
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Physical Description: 3.6 x 11.9 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- Unidentified man in chaps and flat-crowned hat standing in front of adobe wall.
- Another unidentified man in straw hat and dark trousers shaking hands with first man.
- Eisenstein shaking hands with first man.
6 negatives
Physical Description: All in one plastic sleeve.
Physical Description: All 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 556
Row of carousel horses(?) covered with a tarp. Man with leg thrown over the back of one horse at extreme right.
item 557
Eisenstein standing beside large wall mural, looking up at it. Portion of door and window beyond visible behind him. Probably same location as Item 286 above.
Physical Description: "EAST…." Stamped at edge of film.
item 558
Eisenstein standing in corridor(?) with archways, high beamed ceilings and wall murals.
Physical Description: "NITRATE FILM" and "6C 26387" stamped at edges of film.
item 559
Eisenstein standing in front of camera, two unidentified men standing on either side. Building in background.
item 560
Close-up of three football players in uniform.
item 561
Football team walking past spectators. Palm trees in background.
Physical Description: "6A" printed at edges of film.
4 negatives
Physical Description: All in one plastic sleeve.
Physical Description: All 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 562
Four men standing at corner of building; another large building with archway and cupola in background.
item 563
Four men beside large building. Probably same men and location as Item 562 above.
item 564
Man, seen in profile, seated on base of large stone cross in a town plaza(?). Large building in background with sign reading "…PLOYMENT AG…MERELY PACIFIC."
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed at edge of film.
item 565
Man standing in front of gable end of 3-story house. Another man standing in doorway.
6 negatives
Physical Description: All in one plastic sleeve.
Physical Description: All 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 566
Group of people on a bench. Low hills in far background.
item 567
Three men grouped around a camera. Village with thatched roofs, palm trees in background.
item 568
Two men, arms linked with two women in native costume.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed at edge of film.
item 569
Eisenstein and unidentified man in pointed hat standing in front of large bushes.
item 570
Man, in profile, seated under tall palm trees, drinking from a canteen(?).
Physical Description: "49931" printed at edge of film.
item 571
Partially naked man, back to camera. To his right, a second man, facing camera, fully clothed.
Physical Description: "0589" printed at edge of film.
4 negatives
Physical Description: All in one plastic sleeve.
Physical Description: All 3.4 x 3.7 cm.
item 572
Man standing beside wrecked auto, which is lying on its side.
Physical Description: "…romantic" printed at edge of film
item 573
Group of young women in mantillas, most with backs to camera, standing beside square stone signpost with "Ye Bull Pen Inn" in raised letters.
item 574
Long shot of crew filming in front of wall. Long balcony above wall with people watching the filming.
item 575
Eisenstein standing in front of large stained glass window.
item 576
Middle-aged man wearing business suit, fedora, and glasses on horseback. Rocky hillside with cactus and low brush in background.
Physical Description: 8.4 x 13.7 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.3 x 10.9 cm.
item 577
Unidentified man in business suit and high-crowned straw hat, with left arm on a railing.
Physical Description: 7.9 x 10.4 cm.
Physical Description: And negative, 8.3 x 10.9 cm.
item 578
Unidentified man in work clothes standing beside car.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "3".
Physical Description: 8.6 x 13.6 cm.
item 579-582
Various shots of unidentified man with young mountain lion.
Physical Description: 8.8 x 12.6 cm.
item 583
Unidentified woman seated in wicker chair beside a tree.
Physical Description: 12.7 x 19.3 cm.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 584
Three men in business suits standing in front of a building, a window of which is in center background. At far right, a fourth man is visible behind one of the other men.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "["Thunder Over Mexico"]"
Physical Description: 13.4 x 19 cm.
item 585
Unidentified man (Kimbrough?) standing in front of the entrance to the "[….]" You Café" holding a glass (of beer?).
Physical Description: 8.3 x 13.2 cm.
item 586
Three unidentified men walking toward camera. Pan-American plane in background.
Physical Description: 8.9 x 13.8 cm.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 587
Two men and two women dressed in good clothes. Photo faded and scratched; none can be identified.
Physical Description: 5.9 x 8.3 cm.
item 588
Painting of a man seated at a table, holding a miniature of a woman in his left hand.
Physical Description: On front, lower right margin, written in black ink: "Montenegro."
Physical Description: On back, written in black ink: "Se Senor anticuario Jesus/Reyes - de Guadalajara/Mex, colleccionador de/bellesos (?) y de todo. [Se….]/M. Eisenstein." Below, a caricature with the note: "Su novia."
Physical Description: 12.7 x 17.7 cm.
item 589
A man, possibly Tissé, beside a bus on a beach.
Physical Description: Two contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - 4.1 x 7.7 cm.
Physical Description: Copy 2 - 4 x 7.6 cm.
item 590
Four unidentified men on a grassy hillside; palm trees behind them.
Physical Description: 6.6 x 9.1 cm.
item 591
Long shot of man in business suit seated on low wall. Trees and heavy brush behind him. Street and trolley/train in front of him. Telephone/telegraph pole at far right.
Physical Description: 8.3 x 14 cm.
item 592
Long shot of large excursion boat under way.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black in a diamond frame: "Made by/Purple/Pigeon Studio/P.O. Box 2/Gulfport,/Miss.," and "0005."
Physical Description: 8 x 13.1 cm.
item 593
Various shots of thatch-roofed buildings in small village.
Physical Description: Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back written in pencil: "10;" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[….]as 11."
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.9 cm.
item 594
Various shots of thatch-roofed buildings in small mountain village. May be same location, but not same buildings, as seen in Item 593 above.
Physical Description: Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "10;" and stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[….]as 11."
Physical Description: 3.3 x 11.8 cm.
item 595
Three contact prints on a strip.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "10" and stamped in blue: "Foto Mantl/[….]as 11."
Physical Description: 3.2 x 11.8 cm.
Scope and Contents:
- (1) Two dogs lying on the ground.
- (2,3) Similar shots of two men, separately, standing at the corner of a wooden-rail fence, with pine trees, mountains and a long two-story building in background.
item 596
Shorelines of two adjoining lakes (?) with mountains in background. Probably taken from a hill, bushes and trees of which are visible in lower foreground.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "A66."
Physical Description: 8.4 x 10.8 cm.
Series:
Small size prints and negatives (ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm)
Subseries:
From and for the film
Subseries:
Tehuantepec , circa 6 Feb 1931
item 597
Same young woman seen in Item 27 above, wearing a "weepeel" headdress and holding a large, round, decorated bowl on her head.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "561"
item 598-603
Various shots of young couple lying in a hammock hung beneath palm trees at the edge 603 of a bench (?)
Physical Description: 598 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 599 - (2 copies) and negative, 10 x 12.6 cm.
Physical Description: 601 - (5 copies)
Physical Description: 602 - (4 copies)
Physical Description: 603 - (2 copies)
Subseries:
Mérida, Yucatan , circa 22-31 March 1931
item 604
Interior, sitting room.
Physical Description: Contact print.
item 605
David Liceaga having his hair dressed. See also Item 77-77a and 335 above.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Physical Description: At edge of print, numbers printed in reverse, but cut off and undecipherable.
item 606
Four young woman wearing mantillas grouped around a pillar at the edge of a patio (?).
Physical Description: Contact print.
Physical Description: At edge of print, printed in reverse: "8J22…"
item 607
Close-up of crucifix seen in Items 80-81 above. Slight enlargement of Item 81 no. 3 above.
Physical Description: Contact print.
item 608
David Liceaga in arena, twirling cape. Empty stands in background. See also Items 106-118 above.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 609
Liceaga in arena, riding a bicycle.
Physical Description: Contact print.
item 610
Picador seated on a bench, head in hand. See also Items 133-135 above.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Shots of parade of automobiles around arena.
item 611
Long shot, taken from upper stands. Parade approaching camera.
item 612
Long shot, taken from same position as Item 611 above. Parade moving away from camera
item 613
Medium shot of auto with 6 young women seated in rear.
Various shots of bull fight.
item 614
Matador on knees confronting bull. Second matador behind him; spectators in stands in background.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 615
Long shots of three matadors in ring with bull.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue: "AM PHOTO"
item 616
Identical to Item 136 no. 1 above.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Various shots of exterior of arena
item 617
Carriage in middle foreground.
item 617a
Carriage in distance; figures on balcony at far right.
item 617b
Medium shot of three young women standing on balcony.
item 617c
Arcade above entrance to arena.
Subseries:
Chichen Itza, Yucatan , 12-17 April 1931
item 618-645
Various long and medium shots of the Castillo from different angels 645 and at different times of day
Physical Description: 622 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 623 - (4 copies)
Physical Description: 627 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 628 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 629 - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 631 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 632 - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 636 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 638 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 640 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 641 - (4 copies)
Physical Description: 643 - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 645 - (2 copies)
Various long shots of the Castillo. Most, if not all, taken from around 662 the Temple of the Warriors.
item 646
Taken at sunset. Castillo in silhouette partially visible at far left; corner of upper temple of Temple of the Warriors at far right in silhouette.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 647-648
Taken from upper level of Temple, with stone serpent's head and Chac-Mool in foreground.
item 649
Similar to Items 647-648 above, but only serpent's head is visible.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 650
Taken from upper level of Temple, with corner of temple at far left.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 651
Long shot of Castillo and Temple, at right.
item 652-653
Chac-Mool in foreground
Physical Description: 652 - (2 copies)
item 654
Taken from near edge of upper level, with only stone figure atop serpent's head by main stairs visible, lower left.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 655
Open mouth of serpent's head at entrance to upper temple frames Chac-Mool and Castillo.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 656-658a
Unidentified ruins in foreground.
Physical Description: 656 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 658 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 658a - (2 copies)
item 659-662
Various shots with pillars around Temple in foreground.
Physical Description: 660 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 662 - (2 copies)
item 663-668
Various close-up shots of the Castillo
Physical Description: 666 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 667 - (2 copies)
item 669-670
Shots of unidentified figures on steps of Castillo.
item 671-674
Shots of Indigenous women standing by base of Castillo. In Items 671-672, there are two women; in Items 673-674, there are three.
Physical Description: 672 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 674 - (2 copies)
item 1130 - 1132a
Various shots of the Temple of the Warriors taken from atop the Castillo.
Physical Description: 682 - Portion of stairs rising behind serpent's head can be seen.
Physical Description: 683 - Close-up of serpent's head
Physical Description: 684 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 685 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 685a - (2 copies)
item 686-694
Long and medium shots of the Temple of the Warriors, most taken from in front
Physical Description: 690 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 691 - (2 copies) Taken from the rear
Physical Description: 692 - (2 copies)
item 695-696
Similar shots of the Temple of the Warriors, corner of upper levels.
Physical Description: 695 - (3 copies)
item 697-703
Various views of lower portions of front of Temple of the Warriors
Physical Description: 697 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 697a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 699 - (2 copies) Portion of colonnade and central staircase
Physical Description: 700 - (2 copies) Long shot showing lower front corner of Temple and colonnade
Physical Description: 701 - Colonnade at side of Temple
Physical Description: 702 - Medium shot of colonnade and portion of central staircase
Physical Description: 703 - Pillars in front of central staircase
item 704-709
Various shots of corners and sides of Temple of the Warriors, showing the various levels and portions of the upper temple and the colonnade
Physical Description: 705 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 709 - (2 copies)
item 710-713
Various shots of portions of the colonnade surrounding the Temple of the Warriors
item 714-723
Close-up, right profile shots of young Indigenous woman in colonnade at the Temple of the Warriors
Physical Description: 714 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 715 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 716 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 720 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 723 - (2 copies)
item 724
Column, left, in colonnade at the Temple of the Warriors with wall of the Temple at right and serpent's head at top of central staircase visible, upper Center.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 725-738
Various shots of the colonnade at the Temple of the Warriors and of individual columns in it
Physical Description: 725 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 728 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 729 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 732 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 733 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 735 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 736 - (2 copies)
Various shots of stone serpent's heads at the Temple of the Warriors.
item 739
Head with horn at base of pillar.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 740-750
Head with small figure on top of it at top of central staircase.
Physical Description: 742 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 744 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 750 - (2 copies)
item 751-751a
A third head is profile against the sky.
Physical Description: 751 - (2 copies)
item 752-755a
Various shots of Indigenous women near stone serpent's head at entrance to upper to upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors.
Physical Description: 752 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 754 - (2 copies)
item 756-758
Close-up shots of stone serpent's heads at entrance to the upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors, with head on left side of entrance in foreground.
Physical Description: 756 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 757 - (2 copies)
item 759-768a
Various shots of entrance to upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors, with stone serpent pillars visible in all. Taken from various angles and distances.
Physical Description: 760 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 761 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 761a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 762 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 765 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 768a - (2 copies)
Various shots of the Chac-Mool in front of the entrance to the upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors.
item 769
Taken from directly in front
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 770
Taken from in front and to the left
item 771-773
Shots of young Indigenous person sitting in front of serpent's heads. See Item 169 above.
item 774
Young Indigenous person seen in Items 771-773 above, seated beside stone serpent's head at entrance to upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors, taken from behind.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 775-779
Medium shots of figure on outer wall of upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors.
Physical Description: 776 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 777 - (2 copies)
item 780-781
Close-up shots of figure seen in Items 775-779 above.
Physical Description: 780 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 781 - (2 copies)
item 782
Close-up of masks of Chac at corner of upper temple Temple of the Warriors
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 783-784
Young man posing against wall of upper temple, Temple of the Warriors, See also Item 171-173 and 365-367 above.
Physical Description: 783 - (2 copies)
item 785-797
Various shots of columns and architectural details from the walls of the Temple of the Warriors
Physical Description: 786 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 786a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 789 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 790 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 791 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 793 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 794 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 796 - (2 copies)
item 798-800
Views of the sacred ball court
Physical Description: 798 - (2 copies)
item 801-804
Various shots of the Nunnery, the Annex and the Annex and the Iglesia.
Physical Description: 801 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 802 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 804 - (2 copies)
item 805-807
Details of the Annex
Physical Description: 807 - (2 copies)
item 809
Corner of the upper frieze of the Iglesia
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 810-822a
Details of corners of the Annex and the Iglesia, showing the masks
Physical Description: 813 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 815 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 816 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 820 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 821 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 822 - (2 copies)
item 824
Long shot of the Nunnery, with corner of unidentified building in left foreground
item 825-825a
The Caracol (Observatory) seen in the distance past the corner of the Nunnery
item 826-831
Various long and medium shots of the Caracol
Physical Description: 826 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 829 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 831 - (2 copies)
item 832-833
Close-up shots of the dome of the Caracol
Physical Description: 832 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 832a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 833 - (2 copies)
item 834-834a
The Chichanchob (Red House) from a distance, with trees and rocks in the foreground.
Physical Description: 834 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 843a - (2 copies)
item 835
Long shot of the Temple of the Jaguars, with outlines of the Great Ball Court visible behind.
The Temple of the Three Lintels.
item 836
A corner of the Temple.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 837
Mask of Chac at a corner of the Temple.
item 838
The Temple of the Dates. Early Mayan dated lintel supported by later Toltec Atlantean figures. See also Items 1047-1049a below.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 839
Unexcavated mound immediately north of the Temple of the Warriors, with corner of Temple wall at far right.
item 840
Long shot of Temple of the Wall Panels.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 841
Wall of upper Temple of the Jaguars.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 842
Stone serpent column, entrance to upper Temple of the Jaguars.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 843
Temple at south end of Great Ball Court, with lower Temple of Jaguars at right.
item 844-847a
Stone statues at unidentified site (possibly the Southeast Colonnade). Large, light- 847a colored figures holding dark square blocks on their heads. Smaller, darker figures beside them. Details of scene in Item 181 above.
Physical Description: 844 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 845 - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 847 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 847a - (2 copies)
Details of stone-work from unidentified sites.
item 848-849
Close-ups of large stone head.
Physical Description: 849 - (2 copies)
item 850-851
Details of stone-work from unidentified sites.
item 852
Details of stone-work from unidentified site.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 853
Lizard on stone wall or pavement.
item 854a-854c
Possibly the bas-relief lower wall of the Great Ball Court.
Physical Description: 854a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 854b - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 854c - (2 copies)
Various scenes from Mayan funeral sequence. See also Item 183-187 and 371-381 above, and Item 1065-109b below.
item 855-857
Various similar shots of three Indigenous men with chins on coffin; bowls of grain (?) on top of coffin. Three bowls of grain (?) on top of coffin. Head of "corpse" visible in coffin.
item 858
Scene from Mayan funeral sequence.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 859
Close-up of Indigenous people's heads on coffin, taken from foot of coffin.
item 860-866
Various shots of three Indigenous women seated by coffin.
Physical Description: 861 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 862 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 863 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 865 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 865a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 866 - (2 copies)
item 867-877
Various scenes of funeral procession, with men carrying the coffin and (in some photos) women watching, taken in henequen fields.
Physical Description: 867 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 871 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 872 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 873 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 873a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 874 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 875 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 875a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 876 - (2 copies)
item 878-878a
Similar shots of two Indigenous men holding foot of coffin on their shoulders. Feet of "corpse" visible over top of coffin.
Subseries:
Izamal, Yucatan , 21-28 April 1931
Views of large church or cathedral and surrounding buildings; also shots taken on roof of church. This is location of scenes with Indigenous penitents seen in Items 193 and 382 above. See also Items 1098-1124.
item 879
Long shot of plaza with stairs or ramp leading to archway and colonnade. Church in far background. Seen through another archway, with railing in Lower foreground. See Items 1098-1100 a below.
item 880-882
Shots of buildings adjoining church.
item 883-885
Views of large church or cathedral and surrounding buildings; also shots taken on roof of church.
item 886-887
Shots of streets beside church, taken from roof or upper walls
item 888
Taken from roof or upper wall, looking down into walled garden.
item 889
Stone sundial on roof or upper wall of church. See Item 1103-1104a below.
item 890-891
Shots of towers at front of church, taken from the roof.
Physical Description: 891 - (2 copies)
item 892
Close-up of bells hanging on right side of central tower in Items 890-891 above.
item 893-897
Various shots taken on roof of church
Physical Description: 895 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 897 - (2 copies)
Subseries:
Hacienda Tetlapayac, Hidalgo State , May-August 1931
item 898
"Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) with "Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) seated on a donkey, between two maguey plants. See also Items 210-215 above.
item 899
Taken from above. Carriage drawn by five mules, with Julio Saldivar and a young woman standing beside it, waving. See Item 217 above.
item 900
Similar to Item 218 above; taken from slightly different angle.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 901
Two men wearing sombreros leaning on a railing.
item 902
Man wearing sombrero kneeling over young woman ("plantation owner's daughter")
Scenes of Julio Saldivar on horseback with "body" of his "daughter" lying across the saddle in front of him.
item 906
"Maria" lying across mound of earth in which "Sebastian is buried"
item 907
"Sebastian" seen in left profile, wearing sombrero, poncho, and cartridge belts across both shoulders. He is standing against a large rock on the side of a hill, with the buildings of the Hacienda visible in the far distance below.
item 908
"Sebastian" head and shoulders, against a building wall.
item 909
"Maria" walking toward large maguey plant, left.
item 910
Unidentified man on horseback, lying down with left leg on horse's back.
item 911
Unidentified man holding rifle on horseback.
item 912-912a
Similar shots of entrance to hacienda.
item 913-913a
Similar shots of elderly man wearing sombrero and lace-front shirt seated in ornate wooden chair. Same man is seen in Item 218 above, seated, center, on the veranda to "Maria" left.
Physical Description: 913 - (2 copies)
item 914
A large maguey plant.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa 31 Aug-9 Sept. 1931
item 915
Three skulls in foreground, four monks immediately behind them, and another group of four monks, with a cross behind them, in the background. See Item 247-249 above.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa 12-20 Nov. 1931
item 916-917
President Rubio on large balcony with line of soldiers behind him.
item 919
Officers, band, and men of Mexican Army standing on steps of Monument of Independence on the Paseo de la Reforma.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa Nov 1931
item 920
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Stone statue of Coatlique, goddess of life and death. See Items 261-261a\b above.
item 921
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Young man in front of stone statue of Chalchihuitlicue, water goddess. See Items 436-436a above.
item 922-922b
Taken at Teotihuacan. Stone statue of male figure against stone wall.
Physical Description: 922 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 922a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 922b - (3 copies)
item 923-925c
Taken at Teotihuacan. Various shots of male "carytid" busts supporting stone platform.
Physical Description: 925 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 925a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 925b - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 925c - 8.3 x 10.7 cm. (Negative)
item 926-926b
Taken at Teotihuacan. Similar shots of horizontal stone figure
Physical Description: 926 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 926a - (2 copies)
item 927
Taken at Teotihuacan. Four stone heads resting on the ground amid rocks and brush, with small stone structure in the background.
item 928-930
Religious procession of young women
Physical Description: 929 - (2 copies)
item 931-941
Shots of fiesta dancers and posed group pictures. Possibly the Tehuantepec festival , 6 Feb 1931
Physical Description: 931 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 932 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 933 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 934 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 937 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 937a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 940 - (2 copies)
item 942
Four women draped in black seated in a large paved courtyard. See Items 278-278a above.
item 943-955a
Various shots of religious procession of men carrying tall barrel-shaped objects. Church in background.
Physical Description: 943 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 948 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 953 - (2 copies)
item 956
Façade of church in background of Items 943-955a above.
item 957
Adobe building with 2 wooden doors and 2 bell towers sans bells.
item 958-958a
Stone archway with cross in middle-level opening and a wooden gate in the center.
Physical Description: 958a - (2 copies)
item 959-967a
Various shots of tropical fauna.
Physical Description: 959 - (3 copies)
Physical Description: 960 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 962 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 964 - (2 copies)
item 968
Ocean waves breaking on a beach
item 969
Line of men wheeling loaded sacks along road toward the left foreground. Long barn-like structure and mountains in background.
item 970
Large thatched-roof house in middle of broad lawns, surrounded by trees.
item 971
View from the top of a hill to a building barely visible in the distance.
item 972
Interior of narrow hall with sunlight coming from opening in right-hand wall.
Subseries:
Biographical photographs and negatives
Subseries:
Mérida, Yucatan , circa March 1931
item 973
1 and 1/3 contact prints.
Physical Description: "3H82977" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
Scope and Contents:
- Eisenstein standing under a tree.
- Cut off, but identifiable as bullring.
item 974
Eisenstein standing beside carriage. See Item 339 above.
item 975-975a
Similar shots of Eisenstein and Tissé filming in front of the bull right.
item 976
Eisenstein and Tissé filming young woman standing in balcony near entrance of bull ring. See Item 354 above.
item 977
Eisenstein standing on balcony seen in Item 976 above.
item 978-978a
Alexandrov standing on a larger balcony with two young women.
item 979
Eisenstein standing on balcony seen in Items 978-978a above.
Various shots taken inside the bull ring. All photos except Items 986-986a are contact prints.
item 980
Alexandrov with camera behind inner fence of arena. Head of matador visible in center foreground. Spectators in upper background.
item 981
Unidentified man seated at camera, with cloth covering most of camera and him. Eisenstein standing in background.
Physical Description: "..304" printed in reverse at edge of strip.
item 982
Tissé, center, lying on his side with camera; Eisenstein kneeling behind him, two unidentified men holding reflectors; Liceaga, left, with cape on ground in front of him. See also Items 344 no. 1 and 345 above.
item 983
Unidentified matador, Alexandrov, Liceaga.
item 984
Matador seen in Item 983 above, Tissé and Liceaga. See Items 346-347 above.
item 985
Unidentified man holding full-length mirror in which Alexandrov is reflected as he takes this picture.
item 986-986a
Tissé with camera, spectators in stands in background.
item 987
Six young women in a car in the arena with four men. See also Item 613 above.
Subseries:
Chichén Itzá, Yucatan , 12-17 April 1931
item 988-988d
Similar shots of (from left) Kimbrough, unidentified man, Tissé, unidentified man, Eisenstein, grouped around camera in front of the Castillo.
Physical Description: 988a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 988b - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 988d - (2 copies)
item 989-989a
Kimbrough, Tissé, and Eisenstein grouped around camera in same location as Items 988-988d above.
item 990
Tissé and Eisenstein on either side of camera in same location as Items 988-989a above.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 990a
Long shot of Castillo from same point of view as Items 988-990 above. Eisenstein and unidentified man visible at extreme left, standing the shade of a tree.
item 991-992a
Tissé and Eisenstein (separately) lying on the ground adjusting the camera, with Castillo background. Possibly taken on upper level of the Temple of the Warriors.
item 993
Unidentified man, Eisenstein, Tissé, on wall above colonnade at the Temple of the Warriors, with the Castillo in the left background.
item 994
Same as Item 993 above, but without Tissé.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 994a
Long shot of Eisenstein seated alone on wall as in Items 993-994 above.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 995-997
Various silhouette shots of unidentified man and Castillo against the sky. Man is probably seated on same wall seen in Items 993-994a above.
Physical Description: 995 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 996 - (2 copies)
item 998-998c
Various similar shots of Tissé (behind camera) and Eisenstein (seated) at the base of the Castillo. Unidentified man on steps behind and above them. See also Item 360 above.
Physical Description: 998c - (2 copies)
A man (possibly Alexandrov) standing half-way up the steps of the Castillo. Another man (possibly Eisenstein) seated further up the steps.
item 999
Long shot from base of Castillo.
item 999a
Medium shot, probably taken from the steps.
Various shots of men climbing the steps of the Castillo.
item 1000
Medium shot, taken from above.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1001-1001a
Long shots, taken from above.
Various shots of Eisenstein with Alexandrov, Tissé and an unidentified man (separately) on the upper platform of the Castillo. Eisenstein seated or kneeling at corner of platform, other men standing behind camera.
item 1002-1003a
Eisenstein and Alexandrov. See also Items 362-363 above.
item 1004-1004a
Eisenstein and Tissé
Physical Description: 1004a - (2 copies)
item 1005-1005b
Eisenstein and unidentified man
Physical Description: 1005 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1005b - (2 copies)
item 1006
Unidentified man from Items 1005-1005b above, seen through doorway of temple atop atop the Castillo. He is seated on a stone, holding a camera across his knees.
Similar shots of Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tissé seated on the upper platform of the Castillo, seen through the doorway of the temple. The doorway is in heavy shadow, the men are leaning against the wall outside the door.
item 1008
Tissé
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1010
Same location as Items 1007-1009 above, but more of the doorway is visible. Eisenstein and unidentified man seated outside.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1011
On top of the Castillo, with the Temple of the Jaguars in the background. Wall and jutting stone of Castillo temple at left and top. Eisenstein and unidentified man seated beside wall, facing camera.
item 1012
Tissé seated on grass in shade. Temple of the Warriors in background.
item 1013
Central stairway of the Temple of the Warriors. Unidentified man on lower level, two other unidentified men at top of steps.
item 1014-1016
Various views of the Temple of the Warriors with unidentified people visible on the upper level.
Scenes at the colonnade of the Temple of the Warriors.
item 1017
Man with camera standing on wall beside colonnade.
item 1018
Unidentified man seated on steps, Eisenstein standing below him at colonnade level.
item 1019
Unidentified man wearing sombrero standing on wall above colonnade.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1020-1022
Eisenstein and another man with head under camera cloth filming at corner of Temple of the Warriors, with colonnade in background.
item 1023-1025
Filming scene with young Indigenous man standing against wall of upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors. See also Items 171-173, 365-367 and 783-784 above.
Physical Description: 1023 - (2 copies)
Filming on the upper steps of the Temple of the Warriors.
item 1026-1027
Eisenstein and Tissé with Indigenous women.
Various shots of individuals framed in the open jaws of one of the serpents at the entrance to the upper temple of the Temple of the Warriors.
item 1029
Tissé
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1030-1031b
Eisenstein
Physical Description: 1030 - (2 copies)
item 1032
Two unidentified men (one at left possibly Kimbrough) in front of the upper level entrance of the Temple of the Warriors. Man at right seated on Chac-Mool; same man also seen in Items 1050-1056a below.
item 1033
Young Indigenous man seated in front of stone serpent's head at entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors. At far left, the blurred figure of a man. See also Items 169 and 368 above.
item 1934
Entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors, with camera on tripod beside far serpent's head. See also Items 170-170c above.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1034a
Entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors, with camera on tripod beside far serpent's head. Eisenstein and Tissé leaning on far serpent's head. See also Items 170-170c above.
Various individuals seated on or near Chac-Mool at entrance to upper temple, Temple of the Warriors.
item 1035
Hunter Kimbrough seated on stone serpent's head; Chac-Mool in foreground.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1036
Unidentified man in knee-high laced boot, jodhpurs, kerchief seated on Chac-Mool
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1037-1037a
Alexandrov seated on Chac-Mool
item 1038-1038a
Tissé seated on Chac-Mool
item 1039
Eisenstein seated on ground in front of stone serpent's head. See Items 169, 368 and 1033 above.
item 1040-1040a
Kimbrough and unidentified man standing at corner of upper level of the Temple of the Warriors. See Items 1050-1056a below for other shots of unidentified man.
Physical Description: 1040 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1040a - (2 copies)
item 1041-1041a
Unidentified man, possibly Kimbrough, silhouetted with camera against the sky at the top of a flight of steps, probably at the Temple of the Warriors.
Physical Description: 1041 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1041a - (2 copies)
Two unidentified men, separately, at the corner of the Nunnery Annex and the Iglesia.
item 1042
Two unidentified men, separately, at the corner of the Nunnery Annex and the Iglesia.
item 1043
Man in pith helmet, white shirt, knee-high boots between the two buildings.
item 1044
Same man at the southeast corner of the Iglesia, looking down, Caracol in background.
item 1045
Another man in pith helmet and knee-high boots leaning against the southeast corner of the Iglesia, with the Caracol in background.
Temple of the Jaguars and the Great Ball Court. Restoration work in progress; scaffold around Temple and building stones on ground. See also Items 1050-1056a below for unidentified older man.
item 1046
Unidentified older man in pith helmet standing in front of Temple.
item 1046a
Same man on right with another unidentified man standing among building stones in front of the Temple.
The Temple of the Dates. Archway formed by two Altantean figures supporting a date-bearing lintel of an earlier period. See also Item 838 above.
item 1047-1048b
Hunter Kimbrough in various poses in the arch.
Physical Description: 1047 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1048 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1048a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1048b - (2 copies)
item 1049-1049a
Alexandrov in and on top of the arch
Unidentified older man seen in Items 1018, 1032, 1040-1040a, 1046-1046a above at various sites.
item 1050
Seated on stone figure of jaguar at lower Temple of the Jaguars.
Possibly at the Tzompantli ("wall of skulls" platform).
item 1051
Standing at corner of wall with protruding animal head at corner. Considerable glare on right side of photo.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1051a
Same as Item 1051 above, but taken from further away, so more of the wall is visible. No glare.
item 1052
Standing beside large square block of stone with carving of eagle eating a human heart. The block has been broken in half.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1052a
Similar to Item 1052 above, but second unidentified man in a white hat and short-sleeved white shirt is standing directly beside stone block.
item 1053-1053a
Standing at corner of wall. Taken from slightly different angles.
item 1054
Standing on top of wall in Items 1053-1053a above.
item 1055
Standing with Eisenstein. Caracol in background.
item 1056-1056a
Similar shots with Eisenstein, taken in front of large unidentified building.
Eisenstein at various sites.
item 1057-1057a
Similar shots of Eisenstein leaning against a carved column at the Colonnade of the Temple of the Warriors. Portion of high wall visible in background.
Physical Description: 1057 - (2 copies)
item 1058
Seated on stone figure with carved stone column in background.
item 1059-1059a
Unidentified man on steps, possibly of the Castillo.
item 1060
Man seated on the stairway of the Nunnery. A portion of the building itself is visible in upper left background.
item 1061
Long shot of a group of people near the top of a hill, with ruins on the opposite side of the summit. This may be the High Priest's Grave.
item 1062
Possibly the same people and site as in Item 1061 above, but taken from the base of the hill immediately below the group.
item 1063
Seven people seated amid building stones scattered on the ground. Older man (See Item 1050-1056a above) at far left, Hunter Kimbrough to his left, and two men and three women, all unidentified. Site may be in front of the Temple of the Jaguars. See Items 369 and 370 above. For same group.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1064
Eisenstein with three Indigenous women at the base of the Castillo.
Filming the Mayan funeral sequence. See also Items 183-187, 371-381 and 855-878a above.
item 1065-1072
Various scenes of funeral procession, with men carrying the coffin and (in some shots) women watching. Taken in henequen fields.
Physical Description: 1071a - (2 copies)
item 1073-1077
Various shots of men carrying coffin standing on wooden ramp in henequen fields.
Physical Description: 1076 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1077 - (2 copies) Close-up of Eisenstein standing at head of coffin, with three of the Indigenous men.
item 1078-1080a
Various shots of Eisenstein and Tissé with Indigenous women, filming and setting up shots.
item 1081-1097b
Setting up shots of Indigenous men and women seated around the coffin. Eisenstein, Tissé and Alexandrov, separately and together, in most of the photos.
Physical Description: 1087b - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1090 - (2 copies)
Subseries:
Izamal, Yucatan , 21-28 April 1931
Long shots of Cathedral and plaza, taken through archway with railing in front. Men and camera on tripod silhouetted in opening. See also Item 879 above.
item 1098-1099a
One man with camera. May be Tissé.
item 1100-1100a
Two men with camera. Maybe Tissé and Eisenstein.
Tissé wearing sombrero and holding camera, leaning on (balcony) wall of Cathedral or some adjoining building.
item 1101-1101a
Portion of plaza visible behind and below him.
item 1102
Taken from directly below.
Kimbrough and Alexandrov seated (separately) by stone sundial at Cathedral building. See Item 889 above.
item 1104-1104a
Kimbrough
Physical Description: 1104 - (2 copies)
Kimbrough and Tissé seated (separately) on stone balustrade of building adjoining Cathedral
item 1105
Kimbrough
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1106
Tissé
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1107-1109
Shooting scenes with penitents with cactus stems tied to their arms on the roof of the Cathedral. Eisenstein and Tissé (no shirt) in foreground.
Various shots of crew members on roof of Cathedral.
item 1110-1114
Eisenstein
Physical Description: 1110 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1114 - (2 copies)
item 1115-1115a
Alexandrov, foreground, and Eisenstein, background.
item 1116-1117
Alexandrov
Physical Description: 1117 - (2 copies)
item 1120-1124
Kimbrough
Physical Description: 1124 - (2 copies)
Subseries:
Progreso, Yucatan , circa 29 April 1931
item 1125
Eisenstein standing on dock beside stern of ship, "Coahuila" See also Item 383 above.
item 1126 - 1129
Loading trunks, boxes, etc. onto ship. Kimbrough, Tissé, Alexandrov visible in some shots.
item 1130 - 1132a
Members of party standing at rail of ship. Alexandrov and Eisenstein only identifiable individuals.
item 1133-1141
Various shots of Eisenstein seated in different locations on deck of ship.
Physical Description: 1133 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1136 - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1137 - (2 copies)
item 1142-1142a
Similar shots of Alexandrov seated at a table, typing, on the deck of the ship.
Subseries:
Hacienda Tetlapayac, Hidalgo State , May-August 1931
item 1143
"Maria" (Isabel Villasenor) lying on ground where "Sebastian" (Martin Hernandez) is buried to his chest. Unidentified man standing over them. See also Item 224 and 390 above.
item 1144
Group of six men to sombreros and ponchos seated on a low wall. Unidentified man (possibly Kimbrough) wearing pith helmet standing behind wall at far right.
item 1145-1145a
Young woman wearing checked culotte with wide legs, and Eisenstein in courtyard of Hacienda. See Items 392-394 above.
item 1146
Unidentified young woman seated on the ground in front of large maguey plant.
item 1147
Julio Saldivar seated on low stone wall in courtyard of Hacienda, with dog lying at his feet.
item 1148
Unidentified woman, left, and Hunter Kimbrough, right, standing in Hacienda courtyard.
item 1149
Eisenstein and unidentified man seated on rim of fountain in Hacienda courtyard. See also Item 410 above.
item 1150
Eisenstein, center, and four unidentified men standing in the Hacienda courtyard.
item 1151
Unidentified man standing in the saddle of a buckskin horse.
item 1152-1152c
Various shots of Eisenstein and unidentified man seen in Item 401 and 1149 above clowning on donkeys. See also Items 408-410d.
item 1153
Alexandrov and unidentified man on horseback in courtyard.
item 1154
Unidentified crewmen, with three Indigenous people, a car in the background, in the courtyard of the Hacienda.
item 1155
Two unidentified men on horseback on either side of large maguey plant. Man at left is also seen in Item 1153 above and Items 1156-1158a below.
item 1156-1158a
Unidentified man seen in Items 1153 and 1155 above, mounted on palomino horse in desert with maguey plants.
Subseries:
Mexico City, circa Sept-Nov 1931
item 1150-1160
Two views of Popocatépetl
item 1161
Group of people on street or patio, with street behind and below them reaching to horizon, with rolling hills.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "81" stamped in blue: "Foto Mantel/[ ]."
item 1162
President Rubio seated on the sand, third from right, among a group of soldiers and civilians.
Physical Description: On back, stamped in black: "99"
item 1163
Two women on horseback among trees.
item 1164
Unidentified man standing among cactus plants with arms outstretched.
item 1165-1165a
Two views of Eisenstein in front of decorated church. See also Items 461-462 above.
item 1166-1166a
Two views of Eisenstein and unidentified woman on roof or balcony above crowd gathered in front of decorated church (not the same site as in Items 1165-1165a above).
item 1167
Man leaning on balcony railing.
Physical Description: On back, written in black ink: "Pepe Beltran" below, in pencil, in another hand: ["Eisenstein's handwriting]/[Josef Beltran was Mex. general]"
item 1168
Probably taken at National Museum of Anthropology. Alexandrov with two small stone statues.
Physical Description: And negative, 3.4 x 3.6 cm.
item 1169a
Baby seen in Item 1169 above sitting alone, smiling.
item 1170
Crumbling stone arch with another stone structure seen through it.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1171
Alexandrov offering a toy (?) to a small child. Interior of a house.
Physical Description: Contact print.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" printed in reverse at edge of print. On back, written in pencil: "X"
item 1171a
Medium shot of Alexandrov, seated on floor holding a camera (?) and same child, looking toward photographer.
Physical Description: "Du Pont" and "8J22979" printed on edges of film.
Physical Description: Negative
item 1172
Eisenstein and overweight man wearing white Stetson, gun belt and knee boots leaning against a tree trunk. Thatched-roof building in background. See also Item 475 above.
item 1173
Possibly the same man as seen in Item 1172 above. Standing on a beach; low shoes, pants legs rolled up just below the knee, undershirt, holster.
item 1174
Tissé, in same setting as Item 1173 above. Barefoot, pants legs rolled up.
item 1175
On a lake (?) with mountains in far background. Man wearing a soft hat stands behind a large, square object draped with a cloth. Behind him, in a canoe, a man is holding a paddle over his head, and behind him, a second canoe is visible in which a man is seated with his back to the camera.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 1176-1179
On a dock, with breakers, beach and coast in background. Alexandrov, Kimbrough and Eisenstein, with unidentified others, seated on a dock eating and drinking. See also Item 512 above.
Physical Description: Contact prints
Physical Description: 1177a - (2 copies)
Physical Description: 1179 - Five small boys on same dock.
item 1180
Man standing in shallow water, filming. Low wooden dock or boat behind him.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1181-1183
Tissé, Alexandrov and Eisenstein on beach with small alligator and camera. See also Items 514-522 above.
item 1184
Group of men with two sea turtles, on a wood dock.
item 1185
Tissé and Eisenstein, with camera, standing in front of ornate church façade.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1186
Man holding paper bag in patio or garden of house.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1187
Eisenstein in courtyard, standing in middle of triple-arched entry way.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1188
Group of people in and around a car. See Item 494 above.
Physical Description: Contact print
Man beside modern stone sculpture in garden.
item 1189
Kneeling beside sculpture.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1189a
Standing beside sculpture.
Physical Description: Negative
item 1190
Three men standing by concrete railing, with mountains in background. See Item 533 above for similar setting.
Physical Description: Contact print
item 1191
Eisenstein seated on the ground.
Physical Description: Contact print
Physical Description: On back, stamped in blue and partially cut off: "…Mantel/…as 11"
item 1192
Tissé and unidentified man leaning against a carved balustrade, with telephone wires and pole and a low building in the background.
Physical Description: Contact print
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "X"
item 1193
Two men standing side by side at edge of stone platform. Possibly taken at Chichen Itza.
item 1194
Eisenstein, seated by camera on tripod. Standing on opposite side of camera, a man carrying a parasol, wearing a floppy white hat and knee boots. See Item 300 above for same man.
item 1195
Fox cub in pith helmet on trunk. See Item 279 above.
item 1196
Eisenstein standing on a crate or trunk behind camera; all on steps which are just visible in lower right corner. See Item 490 above.
item 1197-1197a
Eisenstein, in right and left profile, wearing pith helmet, leather jacket, and knee-high boots, with pack on his back and carrying a pillow and newspaper. Standing in front of adobe building with sacks, bags and trunks on ground around him.
item 1198
Eisenstein standing on the roof of a church, with an open-arched bell tower behind him. See Item 482 above.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1199-1199b
Eisenstein, wearing sombrero, seated with unidentified man wearing pith inside an arcade. Across an open courtyard or street is an archway closed by a metal grill. To the left of this is the entrance to a panaderia (bakery).
Taken in street or plaza, with pointed-arch arcade on one side and rounded-arch arcade, closed by metal grillwork, on the other. Possibly the same location as Items 1199-1119b above.
item 1200
Eisenstein in street. See Item 498 above.
item 1201
Alexandrov and unidentified man in street.
item 1202-1202a
Taken inside arcade, looking along it. Two men in pith helmets standing by column; Indigenous woman standing in arch at entrance.
item 1203-1203a
Possibly same location as Items 1190-1202a above. Taken from within arcade, with Indigenous women standing just inside arcade watching Eisenstein and crew members filming on steps of building to left. See Item 499 above.
item 1204-1204c
Eisenstein engaged in mock fight with propped-up skeleton of a bull. Low stone wall in background.
item 1205-1206
Alexandrov and Eisenstein seated on either side of a large cross which stands on a rock and leans against a wall.
item 1207-1207a
Two similar shots of Tissé in white Stetson, jacket and slacks, in front of an adobe wall with a grilled doorway.
item 1208-1208a
Two similar shots of unidentified man standing on a board which juts out from a wall on the right. He is leaning forward toward a windmill on the left. Taken from below.
Physical Description: 1208a - On back, written in pencil: "82"
item 1209-1209a
Two similar shots taken inside a restaurant (?). Sleeping man in the foreground, other people seated at tables in background.
Physical Description: 1209 - (2 copies)
item 1210
Man at counter of store (?) with bowls of fruit on counter, cans and bottles on shelves behind and below counter.
item 1211
Interior of hotel room. Man in foreground, bending over, packing. Another man stands behind him at the door of the room.
Crew members on a railroad cart with rolled-up awnings on the sides. Eisenstein seated center, Tissé seated right.
item 1213
Eisenstein (far left) and others walking down cobbled street. Small thatched-roof building and larger building with wooden Porch in background.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Various crew members around railroad tracks, with palm trees, train and buildings in background.
item 1214
Kimbrough, Eisenstein and Tissé standing by palm tree with train station in background.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1215
Eisenstein, unidentified man and Tissé standing in front of train station. Man is holding his hand over Eisenstein's head.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1216
Eisenstein, Kimbrough and man seen in Item 1215 above standing on railroad tracks.
item 1217
Eisenstein, man seen in Items 1215-1216 above. Kimbrough and others walking toward railroad tracks. Caboose And other cars of train in background.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1218-1218a
Two similar shots of young Indigenous man and unidentified man standing in front of palm tree. See also Item 478 above.
item 1219
Two unidentified men standing in front of two-story building with wrap-around balcony. Palm trees in foreground.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Eisenstein and Tissé sitting, standing and lying in a hammock on a wide balcony, probably that seen in Item 1219 above.
item 1220
Medium shot of Eisenstein in hammock.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1221-1221a
Long shots of Eisenstein in hammock.
Physical Description: 1221a - (4 copies)
item 1223
Eisenstein standing by railing of balcony.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1224
Eisenstein seated by balcony railing.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 1225
Tissé seated by balcony railing.
Series:
Photo captions
Scope and Contents: These are typed notes similar to those attached to a number of the film shots. They were evidently done to identify photos released for publicity.
item 1
THUNDER OVER MEXICO /Adeft [sic] touch by Sergei M. Eisenstein. There is/great beauty in the Pyramids, or 'the castle' as/it is called, among the Mayan ruins at Chichen/Ytz'a [sic] in Yucatan, yet the Russian director poses/in perfect focus, the face of a Mexican Indian/woman. In Chichen Ytz'a Eisenstein made many/of the sequences of "Thunder Over Mexico."
Physical Description: On browned paper, 14.7 cm (ragged edges).
Related Materials: No photo in the collection corresponds to this description.
item 2
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Mexican women morning [sic] at the/coffin of one of the boys killed in/the revolt of the peons against the/tyranny of the hacienda owner. From/the Sergei Eisenstein picture. "Thunder/Over Mexico."
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, all ca. 10.3 x 12.5 cm.
Physical Description: 5 copies
Related Materials: May go with photo Items 184-185a.
item 2a
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Mexican women mourning at the coffin/of one of the boys killed in the revolt/of the peons against the tyranny of/the hacienda owner. From the Sergei/Eistenstein picture"Thunder Over Mexico."
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, ca. 10.4 x 11.5 cm.
Related Materials: May go with photo Items 184-185a.
item 3
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Type of Mexican Indian [sic] women chosen/by Sergei Eisenstein to enact/various roles in his film, /"Thunder Over Mexico."
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, all ca. 10 x 10 cm.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Related Materials: Goes with photo Item 191
item 3a
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/Type of Mexican Indian women chosen/by Sergei M. Eisenstein to enact/various roles in his film,/"Thunder Over Mexico."
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, 7.4 x 10 cm.
Related Materials: Goes with photo Item 191
item 4
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/A camera study made by Eduard Tissé for a/scene in "Thunder Over Mexico" directed by/Sergei M. Eisenstein. This is the maguey/gatherer drawing from the heart of the/great plant the syrup-like substance from/which the Mexicans make their favorite/drink, pulque.
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, 11.4 x 12.3 cm.
Related Materials: May go with photo Items 228 or 230
item 5
"THUNDER OVER MEXICO"/The Madonna of "Thunder Over Mexico"/directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein. In/the hurried departure of Eisenstein to/Russia, after he had over-stayed his/passport time in the United States,/many of the records of the expedition/into Mexico were lost, among them the/names of the natives who became players/under Eisenstein's direction.
Physical Description: On white onionskin paper, ca. 10.4 x 13 cm.
Related Materials: May go with photo Items 232 or 233.
Series:
Postcards
Scope and Contents: Postcards, both commercial and biographical, and postcard-sized pictures.
Arrangement: They are arranged in chronological order.
Subseries:
Tehuantepec , February 1931
item 1
Row of 5 young women in "weepeel" headdresses seated in patio (?). See photo Item 13 for same women seated in different order.
item 2
Two young women in "weepeel" headdresses standing in open area with round, decorated bowls containing small lacy flags on their heads. Same location, but not same women, as in photo Item 28.
item 3
Elderly women seen in photo Items 45-47 with small girl, both holding large jugs on their heads.
item 4
Young woman in costume similar to those worn by young women wearing "weepeel" headdresses, holding round decorated bowl filled with flowers. Vines and large plants in pots in background, but this may be a studio shot.
item 5
Another woman in costume similar to that seen in Postcard 4 above. Background similar to the above also.
Subseries:
San Blas , circa 17 February 1931
item 6
Group of six young women wearing "sunflower" headdresses and seated on the ground.
Subseries:
Mérida, Yucatan , circa 22-31 March 1931
item 7
"10..Mérida…Teatro Peón Contreras"
item 8
"14..Mérida.. Iglesia de San Cristobal/(Arquitectura Colonial)"
item 10
"18..Mérida..Iglesia y Plaza de Santiago"
item 11
"Arco de San Juan. No. 18"
item 12
"18..Penitenciaria Juarez/Mérida, Yue..Mex."
item 13
"28..Mérida,,,Satuario de la Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro-Itzimná."
item 14
"36..Temple Masónico/Mérida, Yuc., Max."
item 15
"39-Parque 'Allende' (S. Cristobal,)/Mérida, Yuc., Méx."
Subseries:
Chichén Itzá, Yucatan , 12-17 April 1931
item 16
"3. Ruinas de Chichen Itza/Tribuna del Rey y Castillo"
item 17
"7. Ruinas de Chichen Itza/Palacio de los Tigres, Parte Inferior"
item 18
"14. Ruinas de Chichen Itza/"El Caracol" y "El Castillo""
item 19
"19. Ruinas de Chichen Itza/Las Monjas, Pachada Oriental"
item 20
"28. Ruinas de Chichén Itzá/Temple de las Mil Columnas. (Lado Norte)"
item 21
"29. Ruinas de Chichen Itzá/'El Temple de los Guerreros'"
item 22
On front, written in black ink: "Chichen Itzá Disco Cobre."
Subseries:
Progreso, Yucatan , circa 29 April 1931
item 23
"Progreso, Yuc., Max. - 9"
item 24
"11 Garretera Mérida-Progreso"
item 25
"Muelle 'Benito Juarez.'/'Benito Juarez Pier.'/Progresso, Yuc., Max. - 17."
item 26
"Malecon. Progreso, Yuc., Max."
item 27
Entrance to Hacienda. Five men on horseback - center, Eisenstein; to his left, Kimbrough; other unidentified
Physical Description: 4 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in black ink: "Entrance gate to Hacienda/where we Visited for/several days. Will make/part of picture here./Owned by Col. Saldivar."
Physical Description: Copies 2-3 - On back, written in pencil, the same note as above, but In a different hand. Copy 3 is signed: "Hunter."
item 28
Group of armed men surrounding Julio Saldivar (in uniform) in courtyard of Hacienda.
item 29
Julio Saldivar on balcony overlooking courtyard, playing a small saxophone.
item 30
Eisenstein pushing a woman (unidentified) in a wheelbarrow in the Hacienda courtyard. Several saddled horses in background.
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa 31 August - 9 Sept. 1931
item 31
"No. 126/Momias en el/Panteon/Municipal/Guanajuato,/Mexico,/Mummies in the/Municipal/Pantheon,/Guanajuato,/Mexico."
Physical Description: Colored print.
item 32
Three jointed skeleton puppets on sticks
item 33
Skeleton doll drummer. See photo Item 239 for similar dolls displayed.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Subseries:
Mexico City , circa Sept-Nov 1931
item 34
From left, Alexandrov, Eisenstein, Tissé (with camera), President Rubio, Dr. Best Maugard. Standing in front of large building; two doorways in background, with unidentified people partially visible.
item 35
Scene at bullfight, with matador on one knee as bull charges, lower center.
item 36
Same location as postcard 35 above, with several men grouped around the fallen bull.
item 37
Tissé (third from left), Eisenstein (third from right), and four other unidentified people (2 men, 2 women) standing in front of large building with murals around doorways.
item 38
Eisenstein, lower center, standing on hillside beneath rocky ledge with railing on top; mountains in background. See photo Items 535 and 1190 for similar location.
Physical Description: On front, written in blue ink: "..O gott! Wie schon!"" [Oh God! What beauty!]
item 39
Tissé, seated on front bumper of car with two unidentified men standing beside car. In background, the Temple of the Sun.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 39a
Alexandrov lying on left fender of ear, with same two unidentified men, one seated on front bumper and the other standing behind left rear passenger door. In background, the Temple of the Sun.
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 40
Foreground, various cactus plants. Background, the Temple of the Sun.
item 41
"868 Teotihuacan". Close-up of serpent's heads.
Subseries:
Mexico City , 12-20 Nov 1931
item 42
Eisenstein standing in front of military unit on steps of Monument of Independence. See also photo Item 919
item 43
Slightly closer view of same unit. Eisenstein at left, Tissé in front of him, at camera.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 44
In foreground, center, Eisenstein turning to look at photographer. Tissé in front of him at camera. Unidentified man to Tissé's left. In background, same military unit on steps of Monument.
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 45
Close-up of military unit on steps of Monument.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 46
Drummer in lower right corner; angel stop Monument at far left.
item 47
Tissé and Eisenstein in back of car, filming line of soldiers.
item 48
From left, Eisenstein, a military drummer, Tissé with camera.
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 49
From left, a soldier, Tissé, Eisenstein at camera.
Physical Description: 2 copies; 1 negative
Physical Description: And negative, 10 x 12.5 cm.
item 50
Close-up of soldier in different-style hat and uniform from those seen in Postcards 42-49 in front of Monument. Another soldier, head only, visible behind the first.
Physical Description: 2 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in black ink: "Maclobio Tapia Mangapu (?) No. /2428 de la Commandancia/de Tacubaya, Mexico D.F./xxx."
item 51
Tissé, left, behind camera, filming three soldiers in front of decorated wall panel.
item 52
Julio Saldivar, far right, and two unidentified men seated on running board of car. Saldivar wearing a helmet like that of the soldiers seen in Postcards 42-49 above.
Subseries:
Biographical Shots, Date and locale unknown
item 53
Alexandrov and Eisenstein, with life-size cardboard cut-out of young woman between them, in front of backdrop with crescent moon and stars.
Physical Description: 3 copies
Physical Description: Copy 1 - On back, written in black ink: "Twinkling with/the stars!"; and below In another hand, in pencil: "[S. Eisenstein's writing]".
item 54
Eisenstein holding the cut-out
Physical Description: 3 copies
item 55
Eisenstein, right, and unidentified man seated on low steps of building. Eisenstein holding a small stone head in his hands.
item 56
Unidentified man and woman standing with Eisenstein (right) in front of large house partially covered with ivy.
item 57
Tissé and Eisenstein, with camera, standing in front of ornate doorway of church (?). See also photo Item 1185.
item 58
Stone statue, modern, of mother and child. Portions of other statues visible in background.
item 59
Man holding large stone penis.
item 60
"Torres y vista del Interior/de Palacio/Guadalajara, Jal., Max./93"
item 61
"Panorama desde Sn. Felipe/Guadalajara, Jal., Max. 104"
item 62
"157. Conv. De la Merced/Mexico."
item 63
"Chapala."
Physical Description: On back, printed in green, advertisement for hotel.
item 64
"Ntra. Stra. de/la Soledad/Tacuba, D.F."
Physical Description: 2 copies
item 65
"902. Santo Domingo, Puebla."
item 66
View of city in valley; taken from hillside with cactus plants in foreground.
Physical Description: On front, in lower left corner: "Gto". (Guanajuato!)
item 68
"4. Ruinas de Uxmal./El Adivino (Claro Oscuro)"
item 69
Color shot of town on seacoast (?). Trees and curving roads in foreground.
Physical Description: On back, written in pencil: "Mazatian Mex."
item 70
Foreground, outrigger sailboat with stylized animal design on sail. Other boats and town in background.
item 71
Man leaping through loop of rope.
Physical Description: On front, lower right corner: "Floreos de reata Mexico."
item 72
"188. Floreos de reata. Mexico."
item 73
"473 - Mexico. Viveros de Coyoacan."
item 74
Drawing of rocky hillside with cactus and other plants; buildings of town partially visible behind plants.
Physical Description: On front, in lower right corner;: San Miguel Allende/10/12/44/Brown"
item 75
Drawing of plaza.
Physical Description: On front, lower left: "Plaza de Armas, Queretaro, Mexico" in lower right: "Brown/10/10/44"
item 76
Drawing of a street.
Physical Description: On front, lower right corner: "Calle Cañada de Robles/Guanajuato, Gto./Brown/10/21/44"
item 77
Colored drawing of young woman holding guitar with young man beside her.
Physical Description: On front, lower right corner: "Feli-/cidades"
item 78
Colored portrait of young man and young woman in moonlight.
item 79
"Two Figures of 500 Buddhas, Canton."