Misérias e Grandesas de São José do Rio Preto

The oldest cinematographic record about São José do Vale do Rio Preto. Filmed between 1946 and 1948 by Petrópolis Film, it documents the economic stagnation of the locality after the exhaustion of the coffee crop and the expectation of resumption of development with the implementation of poultry farming. Unique documentary, it is one of the few films that portrays the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro at that time, in addition to presenting the only images known to the village of Tristão Câmara, submerged by the flood of a hydroelectric dam.