Videoteca

A Day in the Life 1993
This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the reason, it's likely that the movie's bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DivEdCo narrative were the main reasons. Notable for its portrayal of "El Fanguito," a San Juan urban slum, and of country-city emigration at the dawn of Operation Bootstrap.

Maratón San Blas 1971
Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.

Mensaje de Navidad 1971
The Tuna Estudiantil de Cayey interprets several melodies of popular Christmas music. Special emphasis of typical musical instruments such as guitar, mandolin, güiros, and tambourines are made.

Fragmento 1970
The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

Olas y arenas 1968
Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the musical composition "Olas y Arenas".

La buena herencia 1967
Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island.

La ronda incompleta 1966
Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

Festival Navideño 1966
Presents several activities in celebration of the traditional Christmas holidays such as the birth of Jesus, peasant parrandas, the traditional roasted pig, and people dancing and singing Puerto Rican décimas.

La plena 1966
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").

The Challenge 1965 star_border 9.5
Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when confronted with the health and well-being of their children and of their right to social services.

Chela 1965
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

Serenata 1965
A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.

Fernandito Álvarez y su Trío Vegabajeño 1965
Documentary about some of the most popular songs of this famous Puerto Rican musical trio.

The Jug 1964
A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.

La tuna de Comerío 1964
Short musical film in which young Puerto Ricans of the Tuna of Comerío interpret melodies of the Christmas folklore of Puerto Rico.

Hope 1964
Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.

The Awaited Man 1964
A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign of the Spanish governor General Juan de la Pezuela in mid nineteenth century Puerto Rico.

La guardarraya 1964
The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.

Geña la de Blas 1964
Geña, Blas' wife, is dedicated solely to housework by her husband's disposition. When Blas suffers an accident and is hospitalized, Geña takes over the coffee harvest. Blas believes her unable to carry out the tasks because he considers them exclusive to men.

La noche de don Manuel 1963
A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico.

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