The next postcard shows Doña Rosa (1900-1980) in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was famous for inventing a technique to make the local pottery type, barro negro, black and shiny after firing. You can watch her at work in a video here.
The next postcard is one of my favorites because it includes a woman photographing the scene with what appears to be a 1950s Brownie movie camera, similar to the one in the vintage Kodak commercial video at the end of this post. The location is somewhere south of the Rio Grande border between Texas and Mexico.
My last postcard shows a piñata shop, apparently just south of the border between Arizona and Mexico. Piñatas are decorated containers often made of papier-mâché, pottery, or cloth. They are filled with small toys or candy, or both, and then broken as part of a ceremony or celebration. I am including it to help us celebrate Sepia Saturday’s 250th Edition with a party!
Just think of all the things you could record with a Kodak movie camera--and it's such a bargain!
A colourful way to celebrate; bring on the piñata! The postcard with the lady using the camera is particularly interesting.
ReplyDeleteWe had a movie camera when our kids were growing up. Eventually we had all the reels of movies put on a VCR tape which I intend to have transferred to a DVD one of these days. But the camera in the video is a windup rather than battery operated & I remember one time on a hike my aunt filming my uncle climbing a large rock. He was half way up - his hands & feet having found precarious finger & toe holds when my aunt called out "Wait a minute, Charlie." while she wound the camera up so she continue filming. I remember at the time thinking "Wait a minute?!!" as he hung there on the rock. But he did & she finished filming his climb. Whew!
ReplyDeleteVery colorful choices for this weekend's colorized sepia theme. The Kodak salesman might have sold more cameras if he had such wonderful sites to show off.
ReplyDeleteI love finding old photos of people using cameras, and seeing this in postcards is not common. What a great find.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for a party! So much to celebrate.
ReplyDeleteVery colourful photos which our themes for this week and next splendidly.
ReplyDeleteI have a Mexican pot from Acapulco that I bought in 1974. I keep a close eye on it when my husband is near it!!
ReplyDeleteVibrant displays that make Mexico look like a tempting destination. Did you use your movie camera a lot?
ReplyDeleteYour postcard collection matches the theme perfectly. I learned something new (not unusual on Sepia Saturday blogs) because I didn't know about Dona Rosa's black pottery.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the post card of the bright pottery being filmed is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful postcards. I wanted to buy a sink in Mexico, but I couldn't find one in the colors I wanted. So I opted for just souvenir vases to remind me of the beautiful artwork and colors.
ReplyDeleteThe photographer is a picture in herself with that beautifully patterned skirt.
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