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Hot Earth
Short Film (Full Length) – 1955
The sacred fire which no man has lighted.– From the narration, on the geothermal region
Here amidst these steaming valleys, the Arawas built their villages. For the earth they found was warm and friendly. Here the Arawas lived for five centuries, peopling the land until all this hot springs region was theirs.– From the narration
...in these parts the face of the earth is still savage, and this is one of the few places left where man sees the restless earth as it was, before the dawn of time: dynamic and always changing.– From the narration
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