Patagonian Playground

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.