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VENEZUELA

220571 22:09:14 - 22:17:47 1936 ? b/w Si

Southward to the Sun - Reel 2
INCLUDING:

22:13:45 La Guayra, Venezuela - Shots from ship of coastline & Andes mountains. Tourists on launch to shore. Fishing harbor.
22:14:20 Travelogue - by car up the winding road through the Andes. Valleys and gorges.
22:14:50 Caracas - Pan over city through trees. Stock shots buildings - The opera house - good street scenes w/ locals & tourists. Knife sharpener. Open air fruit market. Statue of Bolivar “Liberator of the South”. The University - impressive architecture.
22:16:35 The Rurales on horseback ride through streets. Three glamorous women in street. CU girl sitting in barred window (prostitute?)
22:16:53 Race track - horse race - women and girl spectators jumping up and down. Horses round track. Various close ups spectators / punters including many girls / women
Tourism; Travelogue; 1930s; Caribbean;

221107 16:14:49 - 16:15:56 1940 B/W SIL

Venezuela Opens Fine New Embassy, Modern In Style
New embassy building on Massachusetts Ave., Washington DC - Venezuelan flag above entrance. Venezuelan Army & Navy chief Colonel Medina greeted by Ambassador Escalante. INT Ambassador & Colonel in office. Wives chat in opulent reception room - CUs ostentatious furnishings, sculptures & artwork.
South America - Diplomats.

X 221227 12:00:06- 12:12:47 1940s COL SD

Pan-American Highway [Part 1 of 2]
INCLUDING:

12:02:38 Cargo ship thru Panama Canal & Panama City street scene. High pan across town of Colon at other end of Canal. VO re favourable economic conditions & tax breaks in Canal zone. River thru jungle area at border w/ Colombia where Highway stops. Cargo ships in dock at La Guaira, Venezuela. High pan across Caracas & stretch of Highway winding thru mountains to Valencia.
12:04:39 Diesel bulldozer clearing trees & undergrowth for road. Trans-Andean Highway thru Venezuela - local people carry firewood. Farmer feeds pigs from sparse foliage. La Negra Pass - threshing wheat using old methods w/ horses. Village in Colombia. Bogota street scenes. High pan across partially-completed stretch of Highway thru Magdalena River Valley to Bogota. Road grader preparing base layer for new road.
12:06:51

Travelogues; Tourism; South America; Developing World; Economics; Agriculture; Poverty;

X 221187 22:27:34 - 22:40:41 1944c B/W SD

The Bridge Pt 1 of 2 (title missing)
Documentary on South America & the war effort during WWII. [NB film not usable due to shrinkage till 22:28:10 occasionally after.]
Map showing shipping trade between South America & Europe. Vars wrecked / junked cargo ships.
22:28:10 Cotton bales unloaded by South Americans; warehouses filled w/ cotton & coffee crops, more than can be used at home & can’t be sent to Europe due to War. Cattle herd on open plains, wheat processing. Surplus corn stored outdoors in huge piles. Argentinian corn used as fuel in factory furnaces, blacksmith burning corn on forge.
22:30:23 Nighttime scenes of industry furnaces. Drilling oil for US war effort; new Venezuelan oil well in jungle, first oil extracted. Blasting nitrate in Chilean desert, railcars dumped. Freight train from Bolivia en route to US seaports. Copper ore blasted in largest open-pit mine, Chile. INT steel mill, huge furnaces, metal sheeting driven past on trolleys by workers. Pouring molten metal.
22:33:25 Aerial South American town w/ market square. Market scenes, local traders in traditional dress. CUs of men women & children, VO re disease & poverty. Women grind corn on mortar, daughter walks to town water pump to fill old oil can.
22:36:46 Mother feeds several children, lack of vitamins; baby given sugar & water; father gets some meat. Family makes pack saddles for mules. Weaving garment on hand loom; newly mechanised weaving at cotton mill / textile factory - female workers.
22:39:21 Farmer w/ oxen pulls wooden plow across field; grain theshed by horses; thrown into wind. Fields of wheat & fields eroded. Mother & children outside shack, problem of malnutrition.
Agriculture; Poverty; Progress; Mechanisation; Industrialisation; Latin America; WWII; 1940s;

221151 08:26:29 - 08:39:57 1942 - 1944 c COL SIL

[Outtakes: Watchdogs With Wings] (1942-44) Pt 1 of 2
Details US Air Force wartime training & reconnaissance activity in and around Panama. Unedited scenes.
08:26:29 US & Central American officers salute US lieutenant near plane bearing 6th AF insignia - several takes. MS pilot climbs into PT-13 w/ Nicaragua insignia, turns then looks toward camera. INT South American student mechanics inspect propellers - ‘Columbia’ on backs of overalls. MS over heads of students to instructor near mockup of electrical circuits of plane, giving instructions. CU over shoulder of student to cross section showing gears in hub of propeller. INT Link Trainer / flight simulator in motion, instructor in FG; US Staff Sgt. opens hood of Link Trainer, gives student instructions as three others look on. GOOD EXT US officer w/ Venezuelan [?] student pilot walking to plane.
08:28:54 INT Lt. Gen. Brett signing paper, hands it to someone off screen [underexposed].
08:29:28 EXT two GIs in overalls toss softball, wooden barracks in BG. AVs mountain w/ clouds above - harbour area w/ mountains in BG.
08:30:42 INT plotting room w/ military personnel [men & women] taking telephone calls; women move markers on plotting table; CU stick moves marker on plotting table, other sticks in BG also moving markers; pan from women at plotting table to controller, deputy controller, & fighter officer seated on balcony; controller picks up phone, talks, puts down phone. Long table, clerks take phone calls in plotting room. CU Radar Status clerk & others take phone calls. More shots women work at plotting tables.
08:35:22 MS three pilots wear yellow ‘Mae Wests’ [life vests] seated around table questioned by interrogation officer. CU GI phone clerk in plotting room removes headset, rubs ears & face, fatigue. Good CU GI w/ thin moustache & cigar turns to camera & removes headset after checking number on blackboard - rubs face, fatigue exagerrated for camera. CU US Sergeant removes headset & rubs his ear. ECU another GI smokes cigarette.
08:37:27 INT B-24 bomber; waist gunner leaning on 50 Cal. as he gazes out window.
08:37:48 CU weather officer points to weather map on wall; US Tech Sergeant marks weather chart hanging on blackboard, removes headset, registers fatigue; GI erases record of flight from blackboard.
08:38:26 Freighter Sidney H Short in dock; lumber stacks nearby, other freighters in BG. MS Freighter unloading crates on dock.
08:39:30 INT interrogation officers questioning pilots just returned from flight [dark].
WWII. Pacific War Defense; Military Aviation - AAF. US Air Bases - Central / South America; life jackets; Mustache;

221248 06:48:02 - 06:52:11 1947 B/W SIL

[Brazil Inter-American Peace Conference, 15Aug-02Sep47 ]
aka Rio De Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security.
Large resort hotel (at Petropolis) w/ lake or pond in front, two men in pedal-powered boat. High mountains to side & cars at entrance.
06:48:19 Men standing in fornt of large circular logo Uniao Das Republicas Americanas. Int. of meeting hall w/ head table & flags behind. MCU George Marshall sitting at table, Warren Austin (?) & others behind. CU Marshall. Mexican & Haiti delegates at table, Mexican delegate, Argentina’s delegate; other delegates including two unid., Brazil, Colombia, Cuba. Front table & people & audience.
06:49:16 Men in row boat on pond in front of hotel w/ cars parked in front. Closer shot. Peddle-boat.
06:49:48 Shots of representatives from Paraguai, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia, Guatamala, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay. Includes Trygve Lie of United Nations.
06:50:15 Ext. of resort hotel. George Marshall at table; ?? at table. Walter Austin talking w/ ??. Otehrs talking. Men to mics & shots of room.
06:51:07 Delegates out of cars; into reception room; at table. Rep of Dominica.
06:51:30 Road to resort hotel & views of hotel from various sides.
Note: All western hemisphere nations represented except Nicaragua.
Diplomacy; South America; Tourists; 1940s; Post-WWII;

221418 11:13:23 - 11:14:17 195? B/W SIL

[1950s Caracas, Venezuela (?) & Military Ribbon Cutting & Walking]
Aerial over modern building near plaza; highways w/ clover-leaf to overpasses.
11:13:30 Military leader in dark glasses walking accompanied by others; crowd along street looking up & applauding. Military General cuts ribbon as politicians & VIPs look on.
11:13:45 Pan across modern highway & military beside cars; houses up hillside. CU people getting buckets of water & carrying up steep steps on hillside. Mud brick buildings in bowl area; modern apartments beyond
11:14:03 Military VIPs walking. Pan of large blocks of modern 1950s apartment buildings. Aerial over them.
Poverty; Politics; Right Wing Dictatorship;

X 221455 01:20:23 - 01:21:41 1950 B/W SIL

Title: Venezuela - Funeral For Dead Dictator
01:20:29 Modern house, grave, crowd in city street. Large wreaths on stage w/ military guard & flame by coffin. Body lying in state in uniform. Military standing.
01:20:58 Catholic service. Military cap on flag on coffin. People looking in thru ironwork on windows.
01:21:06 Military pall bearers & coffin. out of palace; thru streets. Overhead of procession w/ priests, military & crowds. Military band. Widow receiving sword & kisses it.

221118 08:39:14 - 08:53:14 1950s ? B/W SD

People And Petroleum: The Story of Creole In Venezuela [Part 1 of 2]
Presented by Creole Petroleum Corp. / Dist. by USIS
Tracking shots through Bolivar Coastal Fields on Eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela - lines of oil wells above water. Creole Petroleum Corp. - VO “An affiliate of Standard Oil, New Jersey” - oil tanker through Caracas - Creole HQ building. Animated map of Venezuela showing natural resources - zoom in on Maracaibo.
08:41:08 Oil wells at Maracaibo - VO re history of region - native Indian huts on stilts - people examine oil seeping to surface on lakeside. High pan across modern oil installation on lakeside. Shots from oil platforms; constructing new platform. Personnel transport boats in dock; boats in repair yard; barge in dry dock. Pipelines. Animated map showing route of pipelines. Pipeline construction - lowered into lake bed. Oil storage facility. Amway refinery shots. Tanker in dock - Esso New Orleans on side.
08:45:17 Search for oil in Eastern Venezuela - jungle cleared to make way for roads - first oil rig set up as part of area survey by geologists - explosive charge set in hole - seismograph in truck records shockwaves. First proper oil derrick under way. Kiri Kiri oilfield in jungle region - nodding donkey - new town built to house oilfield workers. Map showing oil transport routes. Tacagua [?] pipeline across mountains - VO “$400,000 a mile to build” - construction shots.
08:49:00 Creole oil tanker into Esso Extra gas station; tanker on runway at airport refueling passenger planes - one named Simon Bolivar. INT Creole office building - VO re ethical approach of company, employing locals, high salaries etc. - American staff training Venezuelans & learning Spanish. Meeting of company geologists inc. young Venezuelan woman. More Venezuelans in senior positions shown.
08:51:48 Worker out of house provided by Creole, drives kids to school staffed and operated by the company. Kids in playground.
08:52:40 Venezuelan oil worker & wife in supermarket - select food from neat displays. Workers club. Hospital Creole - nurses tend to sick workers. Workers at docks. VO re personnel policy.
Promotional Films. Travelogues - South America. Economics.

221118 08:53:15 - 09:04:40 1950s ? B/W SD

People And Petroleum: The Story of Creole In Venezuela [Part 2 of 2]
Presented by Creole Petroleum Corp. / Dist. by USIS
Aerial views Caracas - street scenes - VO re expansion thanks to oil revenues. Maracaibo street scenes. New boulevard in Maracai. Merida in foothills of Andes - old town square w/ church - modern apartments - tracking shots past more modern buildings - VO ”jumped from an 18th Century ecoonomy to this, in less than 30 years” - top shot empty valley, fades to modern city. Alto Pista Highway. Statue of Simon Bolivar in Caracas; Pantheon museum.
08:55:25 Group of Oneros [?] / Plainsmen dancing to traditional music. Ancient sport of Toros Colearos [?] - bull chased by man on horse, pulled to ground by its tail. Crowds watch bullfight - matador w/ cape. Baseball game.
08:56:23 Oxen pull ploughs on slopes of Andes. Mechanised farming. Thatched huts in Orinoco Delta; modern low income housing project. Lone car on empty road approaching large modern hospital; INT hospital ward. Nationwide anti-mosquito campaign - men spray building. Free inoculations & chest x-rays. Pre-natal clinic; baby care class; paediatric clinic - VO “the hospitals and the clinics have already added a decade to the life expectancy of every Venezuelan”.
08:58:30 Industry - INT textile factory. Iron ore mining in Southern Venezuela; ore transported by train to ports on Orinoco River. Aerials industrial developments built by foreign investors. New factories - American companies. INT pan down production line of Venezuelan women packing products.
09:00:13 Oil tankers in dock; goods unloaded inc. bulldozer.
09:01:24 Neon city lights at night - VO re new disposable income - “a people newly arrived in the 20th Century...the housewife can hope for an electric washer or freezer...” - consumer goods in shop window - new tractors in showroom - INT department store - CU food along checkout counter at supermarket - US produce - ‘Ritz’ Crackers etc. Neon lights on high street.
09:02:22 Rural Venezuelan scenes - Andes - herding cattle - crocodiles in Orinoco River - aerials Angel Falls - VO re potential in country’s unexplored / untapped land. Oil survey. Oilfield & refinery shots. Aerials modern developments “made possible by people and petrolium”.
Promotional Films. Travelogues - South America. Economics. Animal Cruelty.

221054 06:52:03 - 06:53:01 1954 B/W SD

Dulles Asks Aid In Ousting Reds From Hemisphere
Top shot Caracas, Venezuela. INT 10th Inter-American Conference - Foreign Minister Torealo of Venezuela at podium. Dulles at podium re threat of Communism & resistance to US economic policy in Southern Hemisphere [speeches not heard] - applause.
Anti-Communism.

221088 16:14:29 - 16:15:24 1956 B/W SIL

Answer To Suez: Venezuela Steps Up Oil Production
Aerial Venezuelan oil fields. Workers onto boats & drilling for oil. Aerials oil tankers in harbour.
Suez Crisis. South America. 1950s.

221085 11:25:07 - 11:25:57 1956 c B/W SIL

[Maricaibo Oil Fields]
Aerial of oil derricks, probably in Lake Maricaibo, Venezuela. Workers going to work. Dredges & workers laying pipe. Creole Oil Co. name on roof of building by docks. Tankers at anchor & taking on oil. Men turning valves. Aerial of ship leaving.

221693 20:47:22 - 20:48:21 1956 B/W sd

Air disaster - Worst Civil Crash Takes Lives of 74 in Atlantic ocean
20:47:26 Search plane & ship operations at sea following crash of Venezuelan air liner off NYC.
20:47:32 Coast Guard ship CG 95306 w/ crew on deck; oil slick and debris; men retrieve w/ pole.
20:47:47 US military amphibious sea plane flies over.
20:47:50 Another ship, W290; men hold up debris found. CU man holding dress. CG men in whale boat transferring found goods onto ship - photographs from luggage.
20:48:16 LS of ships searching.
Aviation Disasters; Aftermath; 1956;

220808 13:51:12 - 13:51:42 1957 B/W SD

News In Brief - Jimenez Meets Pinilla
Border meeting of military dictators Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia and Jimenez of Venezuela.

221496 09:55:44 - 10:15:05 1957 c B/W SD

Atoms For Peace: Working Together
09:56:05 CU Oscilliscope & man manipulating signal. LS United Nations. Int. of government research lab.
09:56:57 Turning globe, animation w/ stars behind. Int. of Manhattan project nucelar reactor.
09:57:30 CU Einstein in tuxedo speaking at microphone from paper; Bohr; Curie; Yukawa (brief shots.
09:57:43 Animated diagram of atom over spinning globe. Graphics of man looking at futuristic city on horizon. Isotopes moved by remote control in laboratory & shipping in lead cases. Lecture w/ blackboard & equipment showing foreign students.
09:58:53 High angle of Copenhagen city streets, ground level. United Nations 08Dec53 w/ Eisenhower speaking calling for International Atomic Agency; delegates listening in MS, CUs, applauding.
10:00:06 1954 conference at University of Michigan on atomic energy. United States presenting library papers to scientists of foreign countries.
10:00:50 United Nations General Assembly; MCU Henry Cabot Lodge, French delegate, translators (GOOD); Norway delegate in MCU. Int. of Norway laboratory w/ technicians. Indian delegate Krishna Menon. Ext of Indian factory; Teachers College, lectures. Brazil delegate speaking at United Nations. Sao Paulo streets & University of San Paulo. Rio De Janeiro streets.
10:03:37 United Nations General Assembly w/ Indonesian representative. Animated graphics linking nations. 04Dec54 voting creating International Atomic Agency. Technicians working; scientists touring US Argonne Plant, Chicago.
10:05:37 Philippine & US sign agreement, Summer 1955 to lease Uranium. Geneva street scenes & ext of Palace of Nations; interior w/ India presiding w/ nuclear scientists: Cockroft of Great Britain; Hahn of Germany; Libby of USA; Wexler of USSR; Bohr of Denmark. Scientists listening in CUs. Exhibits, hall.
10:07:49 Eisenhower touring. Aerial of large Swiss laboratory for European countries; Philippine lab.
10:08:34 Oct55 Men tour National Institute of Medicine in US.
10:09:27 CU sign: Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. Lecture to foreign scientists, MCU. Scientists in India, Venezuela, Italy teaching.
10:11:00 Sep56 UN delegates arrive to approve Charter of Int. Atomic Energy. Lewis Strauss SOF says US will supply U-235. “...then the world can beat it’s swords into plowshares...” Signing Charter. Braziil delegate speaks SOF on atomic revolution. Ext. shots of UN. The End
Peaceful Atomic Energy; US Government Propaganda; 1950s; 1957; Atoms For Peace;

221626 03:22:33 - 03:23:04 1957 B/W SD

Venezuela (Iron Ore Mining, 1957)
Large explosion in open pit iron mine. Railroad train load of ore leaving. High angle shot.
03:22:49 Ore cars dumped; conveyors loading ore ships.
Global Trade; Natural Resources; Shippiing; Hauling; 1957; South America

221416 06:06:32 - 06:13:04 1958 B/W SD

Universal International News - News Review Of 1958
INCLUDING

06:08:09 VP Nixon & wife thru South American streets. Caracas mobs stopping car, shouting. Aftermath showing broken windows from outside & inside of car.
06:08:27

220797 18:02:41 - 18:03:47 1960 B/W SD

News In Brief - Boy Scout Jamboree
5th National Boy Scout Jamboree at Colorado Springs. Gathering of scouts from “all over the free world” Aerial huge camp. Raising countries’ flags. Big cake for 50th birthday of scouting in the USA. Boys exchange badges or insignia. Mexican and Venezuelan scouts. Flags

X 221328 09:00:01 - 09:09:12 1960 B/W SD

[Russian News of the Day 1960 #45]
INCLUDING:

09:07:38 “Youth celebration ball’’. University of Friendship hall, international youth dance, celebrate, international students at microphone introduce themselves in Russian (SOF) from Ghana, Venezuela, Russian factory; applause, guests watch Russian folk dance ensemble's performance, all smile, applaud.

221306 11:13:39 - 11:28:00 1960 B/W SD

To Speak With Friends Pt. 2 of 2
Children reciting, CUs.
11:14:25 WGBH studio shot & French teacher being recorded; American teacher practicing accent w/ tv set. Studio sets being moved; studio control room & floor shots. French actress teaching; students in classroom singing in response.
11:16:48 High school classroom teacher & phonograph record player used to teach German. Male teacher leads in singing, recitation.
11:17:51 35mm slide strip used to show French scenes. Films used w/ teacher taking notes & asking students questions in French. Practicing pronunciation; pronouncing words; repeating.
11:19:54 Male French teacher beside booths in language laboratory explaining how they will hear from tapes. Spanish professor speaking w/ class at beginning of language lab session. View of group from different angles. Tape recorder shown & played; students using microphones to record themselves w/ tape. Teacher talking w/ various students in cubicles.
11:22:46 Russian class w/ college students in class watching Khrushchev speech.
11:24:40 Venezuelan student visiting class and answering questions in Spanish. Montage of students of various classes, studying & practicing languages. The End. Directed & Produced by George Stoney
Foreign Language Study; American Schools; Teaching; 1960s; Internationalism; Globalisation; Cold War;

221436 23:06:27 - 23:10:21 1958 B/W SD

[Nixon Venezuela Trip & Return To Washington]
Nixon Air Force airplane landing in Venezuela. Crowd w/ banners protesting outside aiport terminal. MCU of young men w/ whistles in mouths, holding caricatured drawing of Nixon. MS sign Go Away Nixon, Go Home.
23:06:44 Nixon & wife wave from plane doorway; MCU. Walking past troops on runway w/ Army General & others.
23:06:59 High angle of Nixon alongside & entering closed car surrounded by military VIPs. Students & others shaking raised arms. Army soldiers alongside car thru shouting crowd.
23:07:18 Street w/ men running toward camera, motorcade w/ motorcycle police in opposite direction. MCU of mob catching up to Cadillac car leading motorcade. Policeman on motorcycle stands alongside car w/ men jeer & gesture. Sign w/ Guatemala on it.
23:07:35 View from inside of car looking out of shattered car windows. Soldier standing alongside seen from outside. CU outside of window.
23:07:43 US Embassy & Nixon shaking hands w/ Venezuela leaders. Soldiers running thru streets as Nixons leaving for airport. MCU past camera, hand shaking w/ US & Venezuela VIPs. Wave from plane.
23:08:15 Washington DC National airport & large crowd w/ signs. President Eisenhower arrives. Nixons wave & off plane, shake hands with Ike & others.
23:08:58 Nixon at microphones w/ Ike beside & crowds around. “May I say that...incidents in which a very small violent vocal minority were able to enlist the support of some innocent people who were misled as to what US motives really were. Violent incidents occurred. I can tell you that from my observations in each one of the countries we visited, that the great majority of the people...are friendly to the United States today (applause).”
23:09:44 Nixons’s, flowers & Ike in convertible to White House w/ motorcycle escort & cheering crowds. Arriving at White House, posing for photographers.
Diplomacy; Anti-American Demonstrations; Anti-Communist; Communism; 1950s; 1958;

220765 20:18:01 - 20:29:42 1959 - 1960 B/W sd

Castro Cuba and Communism - Danger on Our Doorstep
An expose of Cuban politics, showing the rise and fall of Fulencio Batista, Roman Grau San Martin, and subsequent rise of Fidel Castro.
Castro addresses crowds in various situations. Castro drinking from bottle. Castro addresses crowds from back of jeep in Camp Columbia. Also in the jeep is anti-Communist rebel ? who later disappears. Rebels parade - cheering crowds.
20:19:46 Cuban refugees in Miami. Fist fight between Batista’s son and ? - eventually separated by police.
20:20:20 Castro meetings - Celia Sanchez with Castro. Castro’s personal tank by which he travels.
20:20:39 Venezuela - Castro visits - cheering crowds. Castro given honorary degree at University.
20:21:24 Castro visits New York - night shots as Castro addresses crowds in Central Park.
20:21:36 Cuba - Show trials - instruments of torture - Execution by firing squad of Colonel Cornelio Roha ? More show trials. Execution by firing squad of Lt ?
20:24:27 Exterior government building draped with flag. Interior Antonio N. Jiminez ? at microphone - in charge of Agrarian Reform Institute. Castro watches. Peasant farmers - deeds which make farming collectives. Che Guevara with President Osvaldo Torrado
20:25:28 Russian plane taxis - Mikoyen and party leave plane. Mikoyen with President.
20:26:00 Party - Che taking pictures of Mikoyen wearing straw hat. Castro drinking wine with Mikoyen at reception.
20:26:33 Sugar cane fields - peasants loading cane. Castro at rally? Construction work on homes in Havana. Castro gesticulating
20:27:59 Womens militia march with rifles.
20:28:14 Mar1960 French ship La Coubre, loaded with Belgian arms, catches on fire in Havana harbour. Panic as arms explode - injured - mangled ship. Street demonstration after Castro accuses US agents of blowing up ship - disaster which left 100 dead. Funeral - flowers on road in front of hearse.

220272 03:45:03 - 03:45:40 1960 B/W Sd

News In Brief (Student riot in Venezuela)
Street with debris & broken windows after Anti-Betancourt rioting. Pro- Castro students burn buses as firemen try to put them out. Army in street. Cold War; Communism; Revolutioni; South America

X 221186 21:28:06 - 21:46:37 1961 COL SD

Colombia And Venezuela (2nd Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Latin American Series
Andes farming scenes: plowing w/ oxen, harvesting hillside grain by hand, horses trample on grain to separate husks, toss resulting stalks in air w/ fork.
21:29:12 Pelicans landing, men pulling in fishing nets on Caribbean coast using old methods. Village market w/ large fish wrapped in leaves by seller; live chicken weighed, wrapped in newspaper. Women wash clothes in creek below palm trees. VO “...you may hear them talk and wonder, if there isn’t perhaps a different way, a better way”.
21:30:17 City street scenes: construction sites, excavating, modern buildings & highways in Caracas. Map of South America w/ zoom in on Colombia & Venezuela. Old Spanish fort. Sugar cane plantation at harvest time. Magdalena River in Colombia - villages on riverbanks.
21:32:37 Men pan gold at edge of river. Map of terrain of two countries. Jeep thru rocky mountain region. Interior valley, eastern Cordiera, towns established by Conquistadores. Coffee plantation of small fincas owned by immigrant farmer; coffee beans picked by hand & laid out to dry in sun. Owner’s son arrives home, listens to schools program on radio; part-Indian wife cooking in kitchen, serves dinner.
21:36:24 Bogota, Colombia street scenes of Spanish colonial architecture & churches; statue of Simon Bolivar, army parade, VO re turbulent history. Mestizo laborers, shoe-shine boy. Business district. Bogota airport. Map of Ilanos region; nomadic Indians in dry scrubland; Ilaneros cattle farmers w/ skinny cows. Poor roads & heavy rains. Girl pulls herself across river in basket hanging from pulley system. Flooded village.
21:40:11 CU oil bubbling up. Lake Maracaibo drilling scenes, workers & foreman, VO re new class of worker. Launch arrives at oil platform, workers arrive back on shore. Foreman arrives home, reads magazine; wife in clean modern kitchen, daughter at typewriter works on university project, younger kids play dominos. Map of Guiana Highlands region in need of development.
21:42:40 Iron ore mining in Guiana Highlands region, ore processed & loaded onto ship. Steel mill. Emerald workers in factory cutting gems. Textile mill.
21:43:39 Modern apartment buildings & university campus in Caracas, mosaic artwork on walls. Professor out of university, into Volkswagen Beetle; home, father greets family in apartment; VO re rise of educated class taking interest in politics of country. City street scenes, traffic on highways; peasants from countryside selling wares. Slum clearance. Public housing project w/ shanty town below. Homes of rich, ultra-modern architecture; poor people in rural village; CUs South American people.
21:46:17 B/W stock footage of rioting in streets, demonstrations. Aerial views across large city - Caracas?
Travelogues; South America; Progress; Development; Race; Class; Geography;

220775 11:20:48 - 11:27:50 1963 B/W sd Organisation of American States re Cuban Intervention in Venezuela
Exterior building - delegates entering for extraordinary meeting called by Venezuela to make new charges of intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs by Cuiba. Venezuelan ambassador presenting evidence. Shots of huge arms cache found by Venezuelan authorities. Arms including recoiless cannon - mortars - automatic rifles - ammunition etc laid out for inspection. Serial numbers and emblems which had been partially erased on guns. Still photographs of captured arms. Ambassador continues with evidence saying Cuba had denied guns were from them but test had revealed the Cuban manufacturers mark. Calls for sanctions.
11.24.16 Soldier and man on beach at Macama, Falcon where arms were found. Man who found buried guns points out exact spot in sand. Soldiers with impounded weapons.
11.25.02 Caracas - apartment buildings where man called Sanchos Modero ? leader of Armed Forces of National Liberation lived. Shots pov walking up concrete stairway and opening of door into flat. Contents of apartment included false identity card with phot of Modero ? and other things linking him to Cuba. Also in room map of Caracas and plan of attack. Shots of Caracas from apartment window - buildings including hospital school and church where it had been planned to place bombs.
11.26.47 Still photos of terrorist activities carried out by FALN
11.26.56 Independence monument in Caracas. Statue Bolivar. Top shot Caracas.

220308 10:43:40 - 10:44:33 1963 b/w Sd

Good Neighbour - Venezuelan head and Kennedy Confer
White House. President John F Kennedy and Jacqueline on doorstep. Honour guard.
Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt out of car welcomed by JFK & wife. Cameramen. Betancourts and Kennedys stand on doorstep. Flags. Crowd at White House reception, Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

221405 08:55:46 - 08:56:26 1967 B/W SD

News In Brief (Miss Universe Contest, 1967)
Beauty contestants, Miss Finland, Miss Israel, Miss Sweden, Miss Denmark walk out on runway in swimming suit competition. CU Miss USA, Sylvia Louise Hitchcock crowned. Miss Venezuela was 2nd.
Bathing Beauties; Motion Picture Promotion;

221442 11:09:28 - 11:11:49 1967 B/W SD

Protests, Protests, Protests
Catholic refugees marching thru night streets of Saigon w/ banners & torches. Priest w/ beads; puppets laying on ground. People laughing as effegies burned. Swish pan...
11:09:54 Students at Central University of Caracas push down metal fence & march protesting occupation by police & investigation of “communist & subversive activities” on campus. Swish pan...
11:10:11 Gas company workers in Rome sit-in blocking traffic, arrested & moved along by police. Banners. Swish pan...
11:10:38 Man in Munich backyard w/ home-made catapult to launch dumplings at low airplanes. Dachsund dog retrieves them. Wife grating more potatoe Canoodles. (kneidels)
11:11:38 The End.
Jewish Food; Oddities; Gags; Economics; Demonstrations; 1960s Activists;

221306 11:42:15 - 11:53:16 1971 B/W SD

A Mission Of Discovery Pt. 2 of 2
Continue... Stills showing volunteers teaching English in Turkey. Stills of other countries: people, agriculture & rural related projects that Peace Corps is working with. Caracas, Venezuela grafitti & Black volunteer w/ kids.
11:47:17 Moving pictures begin: Tunisia factory floor w/ volunteers working as mechanics helping w/ road building equipment maintenance. Architects as volunteers in Tunisia designing communities looking at plans, in field. Language instruction for volunteers before going overseas. American college and volunteers studying history & jobs.
11:49:30 Puerto Rico training camp for Peace Corps. Outdoor physical training.
11:49:50 Arriving off plane & greeted in new country. Stills in various countries.
Humanitarian Missions; Idealism; Youth; Government Programs; Internationalism; Globalisation; Cold War;

220726 07:37:34 - 07:59:44 1990 COL SD

Press Conference on Middle East Situation in White House Press Room - 9 Aug1990
Re Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and US sending troops to Saudi Arabia
Bush doesn’t / can’t reply re troops numbers sent to Saudi Arabia. Troops only on defensive mission. Doesn’t know for how long.
07:39:12 Helen Thomas asks if we are in a war? We are not in a war. Re other nations involved - Britain; Egypt; Morocco. Was Cheney’s mission successful in rallying support? Re Americans choosing to leave Saudi Arabia.
07:41:33 re Chemical weapons being used on US troops. Rumor re Saddam Hussein being dead.
Re Saudis cutting off Iraqi pipelines & oil situation. Venezuela has announced an increase in oil supply.
Presence of reporters in Saudi Arabia & whether to send Pentagon pool.
07:44:20 re King Fahd’s request for support. Soviet’s response. Have joined on the UN Resolution.
Re whether to use more than economic sanctions. Possibility of Arab component in Force.
Re American hostages???
Re how economic sanctions will affect Saddam regime.
Not preparing for long ground war; military objective is defence of Saudi Arabia & overall objective is that Iraq leaves Kuwait.
07:50:22 re attempts to improve relations w/ Saddam Hussein.
Reporter questions adequacy of intelligence & Bush defends it saying move was too swift to foresee.
Re cost of intervention.
Re Vulnerability of oil fields in Middle East. Budget agreement; risk of oil prices rise.
07:56:54 re teaching Saddam Hussein to behave well in future.
Re embargo to be all-encompassing.
Journalists; Presidential Press Conference; Gulf War Troop Build Up; Petroleum;

221373 13:44:46 - 13:55:59 COL Si

Shuttle Earth Views Pt. 5 of 5
13:44:46 STS-65 08-25Jul94 Columbia. Ecuador & Peru w/ NW to SE pass of Pacific Ocean, Equador, Andes Mts. & Lake Titicaca. Zoom in on coastline, tail moves across picture as it holds on river canyons.
13:48:51 Earth limb of Brazil, Amazon River & delta (Ile Janaucu, Caviana & Mexiana); Cabo Maguairi & Baia de Marajo; nice sun glint on ocean w/ zoom pull back. Many clouds obstructing details.
13:52:01 STS-34 18-23Oct89 Atlantis. Venezuela, Orinoco River & Rio Grande delta, Gulf of Paria, Trinidad & Tobago w/ sun glint on Caribbean. Earth in upper 90 percent of screen.
13:53:59 STS-63 03-11Feb95 Discovery. East & West Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), South Atlantic Ocean. Good definitiions of islands. Zooms & bouncy camerawork.
13:54:56 STS-48 12-18Sep91 Discovery. Antarctica polar ice cap w/ light clouds, ocean.
13:55:53 NASA Logo.
Space Exploration; Aerial Photography; Geography;

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GROUP A

05Jul39 Si.

Venezuelan Alejandro Carrasquel, baseball pitcher, in US 4^th of July celebration.

08Jul48

Truman and Pres. Gallegos of Venezuela honor Bolivar

17Dec51

Simon Bolivar honored in Caracas games, Venezuela

11Feb52 Sd.

Bull tossing in Caracas, Venezuela

03Jul52 Sd

Venezuela road construction

18Dec52 Sd.

Venezuelan progress shown with gala

15Jan53 Sd/Si

Jimenez president of Venezuela

01Jul53 Sd.

Milton Eisenhower arrives on Venezuela

30Nov53 Sd.

Venezuela builds new buildings

07Dec53 Sd.

Venezuela highway opened

21Dec53 Sd.

Venezuelan luxury hotel

09Dec54 Si.

Pres Jiminez dedicates housing in Venezuela

13Jan55 Si.

Sardine net fishing in Venezuela;

05Sep55 Sd.

Bull fighting school in Venezuela.|

08Dec55 Sd.

Venezuela oil boom

31May56 Sd.

Venezuela's largest earthen dam

17Jan57 Sd

Venezuela cable car

12Jul57 Sd.

Venezuela 146^th independence anniversary

27Jan58 Sd.

Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez ousted with violence;

09Jun58 Sd.

Venezuela begins construction of dam

03Nov60 Sd.

Shah & Queen have son; Anti-Communist rally in Venezuela;

18Dec61 Sd.

Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Columbia;

21Feb63 Sd.

JFK greets Betancourt of Venezuela

18Aug63 Sd.

US extradites ex-dictator of Venezuela, Marcos Perez Jimenez

16Mar64 Sd.

Venezuela President Betancourt retires

01Aug67 Sd (missing on ref.)

Caracas, Venezuela earthquake;

GROUP B

Si.

British Trade Commission in Venezuela (GOOD DAILY LIFE)

Si.

?? Roosevelt in Venezuela on shipboard. Other VIPs

Sd.

Venezuela scouts arrive, NYC by ship. (GOOD)

Si.

Caracas (?) Venezuela.

Si.

Interamerican Meeting w/ Chile and other reps: Guatemala, Venezuela, USA. Flags. Ext. Pan American Union.

Si.

Guarico, Venezuela Enormous dam construction site w/ heavy equipment. Completed & opening spillways. Military and government officials.

Si.

Venezuela ca 1930s POV on train thru palm trees and jungle. POV down narrow track beside pipelines. View behind. View of small flatcar train on narrow gauge track. Rolling pipes off cars. Unloading pipes from ship to railway cars. View from water of riverbank thatched huts and dugout canoes. Canoes w/ potatoes and squash. Oil tanker tanking on oil (?). Men constructing large tower in jungle. Steam shovel and bull dozers and men digging to get them out of mud.

Si.

Caracas, Venezuela Street scenes, pedestrians, fountains. Traffic. Monument & large building. Coastline. Race track. City. Statue of part of wrecked car. Bullfight. Race track. Golf course.

Si.

Lake Marcaibo, Venezuela dugout canoe and people leaving from huts on stilts. Paddling up swampy area. Walk into cactus and catch lizard or iguana & put into gunny sack. Gather egs of them from beneath cactus. Docked sail boats and dugouts, bananas on dock. Cars in city streets and police and soldiers and civilians. POV from car.

Si.

Maricaibo, Venezuela. Pan over town w/ windmills. Pen filling gasoline or water cans on back of truck. Boy on burro fills buckets. Delivers can to house. Dock and unloading barge by hand. Boats, dugouts and small sailing boats. Pan over cemetery.

Si.

Bay with mountains around. Venezuela Picking cactus fruits or brushing and gathering for toothpaste (?).

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