Rogelio Agrasanchez Mexican Golden Age Cinema collection
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Scope and Contents
Collection consists of posters, lobby cards, and film stills from the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema.
Dates
- Creation: 1931 - 1988
Creator
- Agrasanchez, Rogelio (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access. Contact Boeckmann Center for more detailed descriptions and inventories of materials.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Biographical / Historical
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).
Extent
114 Linear Feet (93 boxes and 7 map case drawers)
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Collection consists of posters, lobby cards, and film stills from the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema.
Acquisition
Purchased from Howard Karno Books in 1999.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- Agrasanchez, Rogelio -- Archives (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Rogelio Agrasanchez Mexican Golden Age Cinema collection
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Barbara J. Robinson
- Date
- 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022 December: Finding Aid updated by Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu