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South of the Border (1987)

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clip Guatemalan rubbish dump education content clip 1

Original classification rating: PG. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Some of Guatemala’s citizens live from the discarded rubbish of the city. A man shows us his home on the dump.

Curator’s notes

The man at the rubbish dump addresses the camera and invites Bradbury and his crew to see his housing. It was unplanned and the filmmaker took the chance and followed the man, thus providing an impromptu scene that added poignancy to the film.