Pioneering video documentary of a home birth. Shot in the Yucatan, Mexico, where a child is delivered Mayan style, in a hammock, by a Mayan midwife. Recorded in 1972 with a Sony Portapak during a trip to Mexico with the Woodstock Community Free School. The trip is detailed in the Doubleday book "On the Bus - Truckin' Through Mexico with the Community Free School" by the True Light Beavers.
FIRST DOCUMENTARY VIDEO FESTIVAL, Global Village, NYC - 1975
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"The result is graphic as planned, and hilarious as not planned." - NY TIMES.