Runtanos de tuerca y tornillo

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Title: Runtanos de tuerca y tornillo
Subject: Temporalities
Description: A half-page comic strip with four panels, each with a caption in verse form. The panels start with two old men, identified by the text as illiterate, dressed in ponchos and carrying walking sticks, who are being introduced by a policeman to a photographer who will take their photos for their citizen identity cards. The photographer irritates the men by asking them to put aside their walking sticks and straw hats, a request the men do not understand. Their irritation turns violent when the photographer puts his head under the dark cloth to take the photo. They think he is aiming a weapon at them and set upon him with their sticks.
Country: Colombia
Format: Comic strip
Creator: N/A
Date: 1929
Identifier: 1929 4 (151-173, 175-185) mayo.-dic. L-7332
Item Location: Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
Related Bibliography: This image 'Escenas de la República conservadora by Ricardo Rendón makes satirical reference to the same 1929 controversy about photographing people for the ID card system