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UFMT<\/span><\/a> A copy of the film…UFMT<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Reports exchanged at the time between physician Gabriel Novis Neves, the first dean of UFMT, and the Ministry of Education indicate that the initiative intended to foster “the participation of science and technology in the development of a potentially rich area not yet integrated into the national economy.” “The Cidade<\/em> was put together through the logistical support of Brazilian Air Force airplanes, which allowed the transportation of prefabricated houses to the region, where about 150 people lived,” shares Evandro Soares, engineer and current vice dean of UFMT. University administrative documents indicate that difficulty to access the area, lack of interest from the scientists, disputes over the territory where the Cidade Laborat\u00f3rio<\/em> was located, management issues, and lack of funds motivated the end of the enterprise five years after it began. Part of the artifacts collected by the anthropologists and sociologists who worked on the project, including adornments and tools from the Cinta Larga<\/em> indigenous people, now belong to the Rondon Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology, located at the UFMT Cuiab\u00e1 campus.<\/p>\n Sole copy<\/strong>
\nBertholini de Castro, who discovered the film and is a UFMT employee, was organizing and processing the institutional archives of the Office of the Dean\u2014part of an effort to prepare the collection for public consultation\u2014when he came across a folder with information about the Cidade Laborat\u00f3rio<\/em> project. “I have been an employee of the institution since 1982 and had never heard of it. I decided to investigate the topic in the PhD research project I’m currently developing in the Department of History at UFMT,” he explains. The effort to gather data about the Cidade Laborat\u00f3rio<\/em> involved consulting university administrative documents, as well as information obtained in Cuiab\u00e1 and Rio de Janeiro. Newspapers and magazines from the 1970s\u2014among them O Estado de Mato Grosso<\/em>, O Globo<\/em>, Opini\u00e3o<\/em> and Veja<\/em>\u2014were the source of the information the researcher found about a Santos film on the project. “I looked for it at Rio’s Cinemateca<\/em> and even at Regina Filmes, to no avail,” he says.<\/p>\n