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Patagonian Playground

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Description Using color photography, this travelogue transports viewers in the U.S. to the exotic locale of Nahuel Huapi National Park, in the Argentine Andes. Showing the stifling mid-summer heat of Buenos Aires in January, the narrator explains city-dwellers' desire to escape to the cool, clean air of the mountains. The camera follows a group of young Argentines as they hike in the mountains, play with a herd of dairy cows, pick wild strawberries and prepare their yerba mate. Striking landscape photography shows glaciers, waterfalls, and captures an avalanche as it occurs. As with all Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs films, affinity between the nations of the Americas is encouraged by presenting foreign places to domestic audiences in an appealing, humanizing light.
Creator United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Date Issued 1942
Spatial Coverage Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina
Duration 00:09:33
Color/Black & White Color
Sound/Silent Sound
Nation of Origin U.S.

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