Captive Cuba: The Years Under Castro

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Year Published: 1965

Creator: Hearst Metrotone News Inc.

Complete Record: Opens with Castro giving an angry speech. Castro smoking a cigar and writing. He points at a map, and talks to his comrades. He leads an expedition through the forest. A bomb goes off and Castro’s forces fall back... more of Castro’s troops going through the forest. They eat and celebrate, listen to music. Castro leads his men out of the hills to victory in a social revolution. A frayed cuban flag blows in the wind. He makes a speech with a lot of press microphones in front of him. He has his picture taken with a young boy by the press. Fidel pitches a baseball to his Cuban baseball team. Americans stage supportive protests to Castro. Castro visits Washington D.C. He meets with the Russian prime minister. Montage of Cuban oil factories, and Cuban sugar plantations. Shots of sugar manufacturing, general industry shots. Cubans rally under communist Fidel Castro at an anti-American political rally. Chinese prime minister visits Castro. Che Guevara is honored in Russia. Pro cuba rally in Cuba... Castro wearing a funny looking straw hat giving a speech. Kennedy (JFK) giving a speech on television about the Cuban missile crisis. A UN Security Council meeting in the 1960’s regarding the previous. The U.S. ambassador speaks. Shot of a Navy plane and aircraft carrier moving in on Cuba by sea. Shot of the ships from cockpit. Various shots from the plane... Cubans arm themselves.. young Cuban boys to military training... the normal soldiers do the same. A cuban woman and man guard a department store with rifles. Castro gives yet another speech to a cigar smoking Cuban audience. An American coast guard ship intercepts a boat full of Cuban refugees. Shots of the trash and refuse that fills the boat. The refugees shit around and look bored and depressed.