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Puerto Rico: Showcase of America

Reel Number: 221422-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1962

Country: Puerto Rico,USA

Location: Puerto Rico

TC Begins: 18:55:27

TC Ends: 19:11:41

Duration: 00:16:14

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Title. 18:55:39 Sugar cane beside electric iron, bananas etc. on table in elementary school classroom w/ kids looking at map. Girl turns, looks wide-eyed at camera. 18:56:21 Pan Am jet taking off seen from air. Map of route NYC to Puerto Rico. Scenic beach shot, LS of countryside & hills. Men cutting cane; oil refinery; farm. 18:57:09 City, small town, church. Cane cutting; small kids looking at camera in various shades. Man at punch press smiling & feeding material into press. Boy wearing tie enroute to school, waves at camera & shakes hands w/ young American blonde girl. They go into San Juan gate. LS, street scenes of old part of city. Plaza w/ Columbus statue, MCU. 18:59:17 Diagram of Puerto Rico & San Juan. Fort from coast & view from top over walls. 19:00:26 Farmer w/ burro along dirt road; oxen pulling cart of sugar cane in field & loading cart. Pan over slums on water. 19:01:09 Factory construction, laborers & pouring concrete. Scaffolding & forms. Modern buildings. Dam. 19:03:30 Four-lane highway w/ school zone sign; traffic past. Oil refinery; workers in various industries including sewing. Government buildings, flags flying. Bulldozer pulling disc in farm field; pan over pineapple field & CU. Dairy & livestock. Harvesting sugarcane, man burning underbrush & cane cutting. Trucks w/ large loads, unloaded with crane. Conveyor takes cane to chopping machines & raw sugar moving on conveyors. 19:05:35 Large trucks to warehouse, unloading bulk sugar, then bulk loading onto ship by conveyors. 19:06:18 Pallet of crates hoisted onto ship, lowered into hold. 19:06:55 Sandy beach w/ palm trees; tourists on sand. Waves on rocky coast. Views of fort, steps on street of old walled city. 19:07:42 CU sign: Caribbean National Forest, Dept of Agriculture Forest Service & car thru tropical rain forest. Wild flowers in bloom, waterfalls & tourist. 19:08:21 City view w/ modern buildings. Steel building frame. Anti-Communist narration. Public health center. Dentist. Apartments; construction w/ small building. School & high school kids a outside. Elementary school class w/ boy & girl greeted by teacher. Children reciting, at blackboard. 19:10:40 University of Puerto Rico w/ grounds. Old church. MCU of two kids; LS shaking hands & leaving gate of San Juan. The End. Government Promotional Film; Tourism; Natives; Ethnic; Territory; American Possessions; Economics; 1960s; 1950s; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel price. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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