A groundbreaking Chicano series, stored 50 years in a garage, reemerges
, as well as the many cultural and other contributions of their Mexican ancestors to the Western world,Natalia MolinaThe series, she says, was trying to show that “Mexicans aren’t docile, that they’re people. They’re like you and I. They live lives in three dimensions. They have families. They create. They were just trying to bring humanity to what we think of when we think of the“No one had done anything like it,” she adds.
Archivist Dino Everett holds nine film reels of “Chicano I & II: The Mexican American Heritage Series.” Groundbreaking as the series was, viewership numbers from that time aren’t easy to find. But based on its 6 a.m. air time, the numbers were likely low. It was “not a popular hour,” recalls Romo. It was frustrating.
Residential homes, Everett explains, aren’t usually climate controlled, so film stored in metal cans are susceptible to temperature changes. “The variation, the back and forth between the hot and cold,” he says, “is what really damages the film.”
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