OUR NEIGHBORS DOWN THE ROAD
1942 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Office of Inter-American Affairs. Department of Information. Motion Picture Division. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- Office of Inter-American Affairs. Department of Information. Motion Picture Division
- National Archives Identifier
- 40246 (local identifier 229.1)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.40246 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 400246, LI 229.1 - OUR NEIGHBORS DOWN THE ROAD - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Office of Inter-American Affairs. Department of Information. Motion Picture Division. (03/23/1945 - 08/1945). Records an expedition by motor truck along the Pan American Highway in South America. The trip begins at La Guaira, Venezuela, and continues along mountain roads and through village markets to Caracas and the oil fields of Maracaibo, with a side trip across the Andes to Colombia. Shows the cathedral and plaza of Bogota, Colombia, and scenes of Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador. Indian farmers thresh grain, and women drive Ilamas and sheep to market. Shows scenes of the Peruvian coastline, the cities of Lima and Ayacucho, Lake Titicaca, the ancient Inca capital near Cuzco, Peru, and the city of La Paz, Bolivia. Shows the nitrate beds along the coast of Chile, street scenes at Santiago, scenes of the Argentine countryside, and the city and seaport of Buenos Aires. Shows scenes of Montevideo, Uruguay, and cotton farms, roads, and the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.