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Agrasanchez (Rogelio) Mexican Golden Age Cinema collection
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Rogelio Agrasanchez Mexican Golden Age Cinema collection
Creator:
Agrasanchez, Rogelio
Identifier/Call Number: 0520
Physical Description:
114 Linear Feet
93 boxes and 7 map case drawers
Date (inclusive): 1931-1988
Abstract: Collection consists of posters, lobby cards, and film stills from the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian.
The seeds of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema were sown with the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920. Hollywood producers
filmed many revolutionary events, and Pancho Villa signed a contract with the U.S. studio Mutual Film Corporation in 1914
to allow cameras to follow him into battles. The film-centered exchange continued outside of the Mexican Revolution, as the
sharing of cinematic talent and technology became an essential element of U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor
Policy. The effort to strengthen the Allied effort against the rise of fascism included the strengthening of the United States'
bonds with the Mexican film industry. With the time leading up to World War II in the 1930s, the film industry in the United
States and Europe halted to use materials for the arms industry. Many countries also began to focus on making films about
war, leaving an opportunity for Mexico to produce commercial films for the Mexican and Latin American markets. This cultural
environment led to the emergence of a new generation of directors and actors, with the first classic of Mexican cinema being
Fernando de Fuentes' film
Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936).
Collection consists of posters, lobby cards, and film stills from the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema.
Advance notice required for access. Contact Boeckmann Center for more detailed descriptions and inventories of materials.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Purchased from Howard Karno Books in 1999.
[Box/folder# or item name], Rogelio Agrasanchez Mexican Golden Age Cinema Collection, Collection no. 0520, Boeckmann Center
for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lobby cards
Motion pictures -- Mexico -- Archival resources
Photographs
Posters
Agrasanchez, Rogelio -- Archives