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Life In Haiti (main title missing)

Reel Number: 221272-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1957

Country: Haiti

Location: Cape Haitian,Hispanola,Porto Prince

TC Begins: 13:10:20

TC Ends: 13:26:49

Duration: 00:16:29

Life In Haiti (main title missing) Pat Dowling Pictures Aerial over Haiti. Map showing location in Caribbean. View across tin shacks to harbor. Bus w/ boxes & bags on roof; people riding burros; walking. Palace & Agricultural School; homes of various sizes. Ships at dock; aircraft carrier anchored offshore. Cape Haitian main street. Villages. 13:12:17 Men in small fishing boat. Statue of Columbus; French Fort; kids playing in stone. Collapsed palace & fortress on top of mountain. 13:13:19 Large arch w/ sign Viva Le President Paul Magloire (overthrown in 1956); picture. 13:13:32 Shoemaker sitting on street making shoe by hand. Woman fitting boy. Women & burros & carrying goods on heads to market. Large village market square w/ burros around edge. Talking & selling from mats on ground: rice, cookies, clothing & cloth, oil for lamps. People walking home along edge of gravel road. View from water of mountains. Farmer hoeing corn; plantain plants; coffee beans & harvesting & sorting. 13:16:26 Sugar cane growing; oxen turning crushing device & juice running out. Sisal plant in large field. Specialist talking to farmer; men working field w/ hoes; tractor. Cutting sisal, bundling & tying & hauled by narrow gauge locomotive to mill where machine clean outside leaving fibers. Women sort clean fiber & grade them. Bundled & put thru drying oven, then beaten to make soft. Mechanical press makes bales & wheeled to dock & loaded onto freighters. 13:19:56 Cassava bush, aka manioc, woman peeling then grated, rolled into bag & pressed to remove poison. Dried into flour & put onto griddle. Woman cooking outdoors on charcoal, chicken. 13:22:10 Thatched huts of village w/ woman walking past. Building hut w/ framework of boards & fastened w/ pins; small sticks into framework, wattling & clay. Finish house. River & people washing clothes, getting drinking water, bathing, scrubbing clothes. Beating w/ paddle to remove soap & lemon used as bleach. Laid out to dry. 13:24:19 View from water on river. Along gravel road w/ people & burros. People outside church. Drums, flutes & metal played. 13:25:36 Kids playing baseball as others watch. Boy Scout troop marching & singing; Girl Scouts marching & singing. Kids into small school house wearing uniforms. Haiti flag (?) flying. The End. Dictatorship; Stereotype; Myth; Propaganda; Poverty;

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