From Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico Studios


  • 1951
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    El puente

    El puente

    5.00 1951 HD

    The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

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  • 1970
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    Pueblito de Santiago

    Pueblito de Santiago

    1 1970 HD

    Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem...

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  • 1952
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    A Voice on the Mountain

    A Voice on the Mountain

    5.40 1952 HD

    Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

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  • 1955
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    Modesta

    Modesta

    5.00 1955 HD

    Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization...

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  • 1956
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    Mayo florido

    Mayo florido

    1 1956 HD

    An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

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  • 1951
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    Los peloteros

    Los peloteros

    6.00 1951 HD

    A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

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  • 1959
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    Brainless John

    Brainless John

    5.20 1959 HD

    A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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  • 1952
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    Las manos del hombre

    Las manos del hombre

    8.00 1952 HD

    Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

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  • 1958
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    El contemplado: Isla Cordillera

    El contemplado: Isla Cordillera

    1 1958 HD

    Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.

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  • 1964
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    The Awaited Man

    The Awaited Man

    1 1964 HD

    A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign...

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  • 1956
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    Ignacio

    Ignacio

    1 1956 HD

    Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the...

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  • 1993
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    A Day in the Life

    A Day in the Life

    1 1993 HD

    This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the...

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  • 1959
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    El yugo

    El yugo

    6.00 1959 HD

    The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.

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  • 1959
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    Intolerance

    Intolerance

    1 1959 HD

    A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

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  • 1955
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    Doña Julia

    Doña Julia

    1 1955 HD

    The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through...

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  • 1966
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    La plena

    La plena

    1 1966 HD

    One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the...

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  • 1956
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    El santero

    El santero

    5.20 1956 HD

    Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the...

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  • 1966
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    La ronda incompleta

    La ronda incompleta

    1 1966 HD

    Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

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  • 1955
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    Nenén of the Moorish Way

    Nenén of the Moorish Way

    5.50 1955 HD

    A young boy becomes intrigued by one of the characters in his village's celebration of its patron saint.

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  • 1964
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    The Jug

    The Jug

    1 1964 HD

    A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.

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