No País das Amazonas

No País das Amazonas
Directed by	Agesilau De Araujo and Silvino Santos
Produced by	Joaquim Gonçalves de Araújo
Cinematography	Silvino Santos
Edited by	Agesilau De Araujo and Silvino Santos
Distributed by	J.G. Araújo Produções Cinematográficas
Release date	12 January 1922 (1922-01-12)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Silent (Portuguese intertitles)

No País das Amazonas (1922)

No País das Amazonas is a 1922 Brazilian silent documentary film directed by Agesilau De Araujo and Silvino Santos.^[1]

The film was notable in that it was one of the earliest to document the Amazon Rainforest on camera and present it to a wider audience^[2] and documents the local economies of the Amazonian Indians, examining production lines and workers in factories. It also portrays fishing on the Amazon River as a way of life, and shows how the locals prepare the fish for sale with salt. Later on, the film also examines rubber plantations in the rainforest and how the locals make use of the natural reserves for export.

The film premiered on 12 January 1922 in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

The film was considered lost in 1930, but a copy was rediscovered in 2023 and the film was screened again in November 2023.^[2]

References

1. No País das Amazonas, retrieved 15 March 2020
2. Meyerfeld, Bruno (27 November 2023). "Au Brésil, la redécouverte miraculeuse de l'un des plus anciens films tournés en Amazonie". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 28 November 2023.
3. Araujo, Gabriel (10 May 2019). "Um século após registrar Amazônia, cineasta Silvino Santos volta a ser tema na Academia". AUN - Agência Universitária de Notícias (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 15 March 2020.

External links

• No País das Amazonas at IMDb