Rare footage of Diego Rivera found


	Rare footage of Diego Rivera found

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8-28-2008 7:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a3e43260-9a91-4016-a118-1ddbb0e7ba24/B5AF2BAD-A0D9-4F7F-94E8-3E4E18F2919D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html" href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mysanantonio.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mysanantonio.com/img/632EC0E3-6F94-4807-AC1B-CAB3C9E1062D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html">Filmmaker Diego López Rivera has no memory of his grandfather, for whom he was named.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html"><P> About three years ago, López was surprised to see color film of Rivera, whom he knew largely through his artwork and black and white pictures, screened at an awards ceremony for documentary film at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html">Until that moment, only a handful of people had seen the footage, which was shot in 1949 for a documentary by cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The project was never completed, and the footage languished for more than 50 years. After Figueroa died in 1997, it was re-discovered by his son, photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The younger Figueroa's mother "(dug) it out of a cupboard or something,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html"><P> There is very little color film footage of Rivera in existence. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/Documentary_by_his_grandson_features_rare_footage_of_Rivera.html"><P> "We presume it's probably the only footage in color that shows Diego Rivera painting and directing his own compositions in movement," Figueroa said. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5AF2BAD-A0D9-4F7F-94E8-3E4E18F2919D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>