Giving Birth

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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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