Slaves Of The Shuttle (1933)

San Miguel is old Mexico at its best. No Spanish is spoken and there is no means of contact with the outside world. M, S of a crowded market place. Various shots of market traders. A woman kneels down on the ground as another woman fills her bag with grain or similar. In San Miguel there is only one recognised profession. If a man is not a weaver he is nobody. The rugmaker washes his wool, while his wife does the family M, S of a man standing in a river washing a basket of wool. L, S of the man washing the wool very picturesque setting. He walks out of the water with his basket. M, S of him swinging his basket to and fro to extract the water. M, S from high angle of three women doing some washing by the edge of the water. Two young children sit in the river. Carding and spinning are done by hand exactly as they were done three centuries M, S of two women (one elderly) carding and spinning wool in front of some large cacti. C, U of the elderly woman who is carding the wool.