Newsflash From The Past

Program Title:
Newsflash From The Past
PRA Archive #: 
SZ0731a
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Newsflash From The Past / narrated by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil| produced by Centro de Education Popular. Historical dramatization in a news documentary format about the Spanish arrival and conquest of South America. CONTENT: 1. Columbus prepares his voyage (3:04) -- 2. Funding from the Catholic Monarchs (3:09) -- 3. Columbus' crew (2:45) -- 4. October 12 (2:42) -- 5. They traded gold for mirrors (4:08) -- 6. Columbus returns (2:58) -- 7. The Papal Bull over America (2:29) -- 8. The First battles (2:34) -- 9. Taxes are levied (2:48) -- 10. Burned alive for committing sacrilege (3:15) -- 11. Dispute over Brazil (3:26) -- 12. The Pearl divers (3:15) -- 13. Hatuely's death (2:45) -- 14. Collective suicides (3:25) -- 15. Montesino's sermon (2:53) -- 16. Balboa "discovers" the Pacific (4:05) -- 17. The First Baptisms (3:12) -- 18. Land claims (2:49) -- 19. Naming America (2:30) -- 20. Enriquillo's revolt (2:53) -- 21. Cortes burns his boats (3:26) -- 22. The Sacking of the palace (2:40) -- 23. New weapons : powder (2:42) -- 24. The Fall of the Aztec empire (3:20) -- 25. Native resistance (2:58) -- 26. Portrait of a Conquistador (3:39). Funded by the World Association for Christian Communication. RECORDED: Prim Video and Above Berlin Studios, Montreal & Quebec, Canada, July 1992.

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Item duration: 
79:30
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