“ ADVENTURE IN CUBA, GUATEMALA & YUCATAN ” 1950s SOUTH AMERICAN TRAVELOGUE JOSEPH TEMROWSKI XD33625

“Adventures in Guatemala and Yucatan” is a 1950s silent home movie-style travelogue, in color, shot by Joseph F. Temrowski. Temrowski ran a real estate firm and opened the Joseph F. Temrowski Automobiliana Museum in Michigan. In these films, a small group of American tourists sightsee a wonderland of flowers and rugged country, Lake Atitlan, Antigua, Chichicastenano, Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, and Havana, Cuba.

01:15 Flying over clouds and Havana, Cuba. Passengers disembark the Pan American World Airways DC-4 Clipper Union, then fly to Guatemala.
03:29 A welcome sign for La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City and a stone marker reading K11 R.N.No 1 C.F.D.R.
03:42 Vista view of the mountainous Guatemalan countryside.
03:52 Iglesia San Francisco at Antigua. The tourists drive a 1948 Dodge Deluxe. Random shots of bushes, flowers, and the ruins at Iglesia San Francisco
04:56 Handcrafted pottery workshop and Merced Colonial Cathedral built 1680.
05:33 A Mayan textile factory, hibiscus flowers, Hotel Aurora and its fountain.
06:57 Ox-drawn carts crowd a country road. Traveling unpaved country roads passing locals with heavy loads on their backs. Narrow village streets past colorful homes and pedestrians
08:12 In and around a courtyard, women admire hibiscus and lilies. At the Hotel Casa Contenta, indigenous people, el Quiché, bring products to market.
09:10 Lake Atitlan and San Pedro volcano. A boatload of tourists venture the lake and waterfalls.
10:07 Narrow streets of Antigua, low buildings, chapels, a procession of indigenous people travel along a dirt mountain road, some carry loads on their heads and backs, through narrow village streets past rows of low, tile-roof buildings.
11:23 Thursday Market Day at Iglesia Santo Tomas, Chichicastenango where indigenous peoples in colorful ‘trajes’ adorned with beads, sell crafts, food, and textiles. Churchgoers swing thuribles of incense.
12:54 Vendors and customers barter and fraternize. Many carrying on their heads baskets, pottery, or hats for sale.
16:10 Four men play the marimba, a xylophone-like musical instrument. A colorful Scarlet Macaw cleans its feathers.
16:33 An outdoor market sells hand woven goods. Various street scenes in a small village. People carry bundles of Paja Toquilla straw, satchels, baskets, babies.
18:52 Along cobblestone roads and rural dirt roads, passing indigenous people, past undulating land lined with walking trails. Indigenous children pose for pictures.
20:33 Palacio Nacional de la Cultura in Guatemala City, Central Park, Metropolitan Cathedral. A group of women in traditional dress carry baskets on their head.
21:31 Monument to Christopher Columbus in Central Park. The Temple of Minerva and the Hippodrome Stadium. Views of the city. Kids play soccer.
22:01 At the Church of Cerrito del Carmen.
22:25 Estadio Nacional Doroteo Guamuch Flores, earlier known as Estadio Mateo Flores, built in the 1940s.
22:45 The Torre del Reformador, a 71 meter tower in Guatemala City. Also present are art deco homes.
23:08 Outside and inside the Musio Nacional.
23:34 Street scenes showing a pharmacy and a movie theater advertising June Allyson and Dick Powell in “The Reformer and the Redhead” (1950) and a theater announcing Chang the “magician of magicians.” A truck carrying men speaking through a loud bullhorn is followed by a crowd.
24:24 The tour group boards a Pan American World Airways DC-4 followed by aerial shots of Central America’s landscape and waterways
24:40 They arrive at Merida, Mexico in Yucatan. The group motors along broad avenues and narrow side streets, past colorful pink buildings, along paved country roads past grass-roof huts and through desolate flatlands.
25:15 They enter the Chichen Itza archaeological site, a large pre-Columbian city. Grand Ball Court structures, the North Temple, Temple of Kukulcán (El Castillo), the surrounding area and the Yucatec Mayan people.
26:46 Colonnade at Temple of the Warriors and various grass-roof huts, flowers, the ancient Mayan observatory at Chichen Itza, the Nunnery, The Kukulcan pyramid and native women.
28:13 In Havana, Cuba. Rooftop views of the city plus drives through city streets past Paulina’s Bidet Fountain (sometimes called Luminous Fountain) ending up at Rancho Boyeros Airport.
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