Cuba: The Land and the People
Cuba: The Land and the People
An educational/historical film about Cuba, with consultant. Geography. Scenics. People. 1950s.
Cuba: The Land and the People
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Cuba: The Land and the People
LS rural Cuba with palm trees and people walking dirt road. LS island landscape showing water, trees and mountains. GV landscape showing mountains and trees.
Cuba: The Land and the People
GVs MSs families strolling along waterfront. CUs of their faces showing the variety of ethnicities on the island including: Spanish, African, European and West Indies.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of the Caribbean Sea and islands, Cuba is highlighted, animated arrows show trade routes. Map of Cuba, cities are highlighted.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Santiago, Cuba: MS pan down facade of old building in Spanish style of architecture. TLS narrow street. GV fort structure in the waterfront. GV boat moving through Santiago Channel. GV San Juan Hill. GV people visiting Cuban-American memorial on San Juan Hill. MS cannon high on hill. TLS beach.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of Cuba, cities and Central Highway are highlighted, stretching from Havana to Santiago.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Santiago, Cuba: GV MS people boarding bus, pan to bus destination sigh reading Habana . Elevated LS bus driving rural road past palm trees. GV mountains with palm trees in foreground.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of Cuba highlighting cities, Central Highway and mountains, focus is placed on the Eastern end of the island.
Cuba: The Land and the People
GV MS men working at manganese mine on the Eastern side of the island.
Cuba: The Land and the People
GV MS men on the Eastern side of the island loading raw Mahogany lumber onto truck for export.
Cuba: The Land and the People
GV bus moving along rural road surrounded by fields of sugar cane.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of Cuba highlighting cities, Central Highway and mountains, focus is placed on the central part of the island.
Cuba: The Land and the People
TLS field of sugar cane in the central part of the island. MCU sugar cane crop. GV MS men harvesting the sugar cane with machetes. MCU MS men loading sugar cane into truck. GV truck pulling out of field as worker leave for mid-day break. MS field workers walking home for lunch.
Cuba: The Land and the People
LS male field worker walking to him home during mid-day break, a thatched hut on the plantation land. MSs man being greeted by wife. MS young woman walking away from grove of banana trees. MS family outside thatched hut. MCU toddler holding fruit. MS family entering their home.
Cuba: The Land and the People
LS sugar mill refinery in the distance, smoke stack belching dark smoke. GVs mill with harvested sugar cane arriving in carts, moving up conveyor. Low angle MS sugar refining plant. MS male workers at the end of conveyor, stacking bags of processed sugar for export. CU sugar sack label, made in Cuba by American company.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of Cuba highlighting cities, Central Highway and mountains, focus is placed on Western part of the island.
Cuba: The Land and the People
TLS bus driving rural highway in the western part of the island, passing fields of pineapple in the foreground. LS field workers harvesting pineapple. MS male workers cutting pineapple with machete and carried in basket.
Cuba: The Land and the People
GV MS male field worker harvesting tobacco on the western side of the island. CU laborer holding one of the giant leaves for the camera. CU MS men rolling cigars in factory. MCU foreman inspecting the product. MS men rolling cigars
Cuba: The Land and the People
Havana, Cuba: MS GV Havana street scene. MS man running to catch bus. Elevated LS paseo del prado showing pedestrian and vehicular traffic. MS MCU young men and women socializing on step outside University. GV students strolling past Havana s Capital building.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Havana, Cuba: MS GV people enjoying a day at beach in Havana.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Havana, Cuba: MS men getting into car and pulling away out of frame. POV driving through Havana. Tracking shots passing statue of Jose Monte and Columbus Cathedral. POV driving through Havana docks. POV driving toward Morro Castle. TLS Morro Castle.
Cuba: The Land and the People
Map of the Caribbean Sea and islands, Cuba is highlighted.
Cuba: The Land and the People
MS Cuban-American memorial statue on San Juan Hill. Elevated LS horse drawn cart moving along rural road. MS male worker stacking raw Mahogany lumber. MS men in the field harvesting pineapple. MCU man harvesting tobacco leaves. GV men in the field harvesting sugar cane. MS families passing while strolling along waterfront.
Cuba: The Land and the People
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