[Aztlan] Tarzan vs Quetzalcoatl

[Matthew H. Robb]

While researching the 60s PAT in the Archivo Tecnico, I came across a summary informe written by Acosta in which he described receiving a telegram from the SEP ordering the filming of the Tarzon movie to stop, since the script denigrated Mexico. Somewhat conveniently, Acosta lamented that the telegram had arrived too late in the day, and that filming had already concluded. 

MHR




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From: Justin Kerr <mayavase at verizon.net>
To: Marcos Villaseñor <villas at anawak.com>; aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Tarzan vs Quetzalcoatl

Movies don't die, they merely wait it out until and another administration
comes along
Tarzan and the Valley of gold was filmed in Teotihuacán in 1966 with Mike
Henry as Tarzan, David Opastoshu as the villain and Nancy Kovack as the
girl. They use the gimmick of the sand coming out of the walls to get the
bad guy, but they did have an armored vehicle rolling through the streets of
the dead. The film is available of DVD.
Justin

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On Behalf Of Marcos Villaseñor
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:02 PM
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: [Aztlan] Tarzan vs Quetzalcoatl

I just found this essay, – http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/02/05/
index.php?section=ltura&article 5n1cul – it was reproduced
recently in La Jornada from the book —La vida en México en el periodo
presidencial de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz— by the  “ Cronista de México”,
Salvador Novo—.  It’s a nice telling of how the Tarzan movie being
filmed in Teotihuacan (in the 60s) was thwarted by a comment Salvador
Novo made to another journalist.
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