¡Colores!; Eighteenth-Century Room, Altar, and Kitchen

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · September 24, 2006

This file contains raw footage of a woman discussing colonial New Mexico materials (e.g. a colchon, or mattress, made and woven at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas). She specifically discusses the materials and objects found in an eighteenth-century room and presents a religious Catholic altar. Another segment features the woman in an eighteenth-century kitchen with young girls grinding corn. Footage shot for the ¡Colores! episode "Villa de Alburquerque." In honor of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s, celebration of its tricentennial, KNME proudly presents “Villa de Alburquerque.” This ¡Colores! production is a one-hour documentary that looks at the life and times of 18th century Albuquerque. The documentary covers the Spanish colonial period (1706 - 1821) and provides audiences with a sense of how people - settlers, soldiers, servants, nomadic tribes, and others – lived. It will also examine the cross-cultural influences of the time that help define what it means to be a New Mexican today. Avoiding a text book chronological map of the period and with the help of historians, musicians, re-enactors, and a DNA investigator, “Villa de Alburquerque” explores the historical roots of our mixed heritage, conveying the lives of the common people behind the big names and events of New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. Funding for this program was provided by The Albuquerque Tricentennial and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.