Cuba: Zoo
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Unedited film of Havana, Cuba. Footage includes the zoo, beaches, Capitol building, urban and rural landscapes and people, wildlife like dolphins, stingrays and sea turtles, and CU of exotic flowers. Shot by Metro Movie Club member Ed Diller.
Credits
Ed Diller (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Subjects: Tourism; Zoos; Travel; City and town life; Beaches; Amateur Film Clubs
Places: North America > Cuba > Havana
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - handheld VS flamingos in a pond; 01:40 - MS women sitting looking through a fence; 02:02 - MS alligator with mouth open; 02:07 - CU bright red/yellow exotic flower; 02:19 - VS statue of deer, PAN LEFT highway; 02:51 - sign “Zoologico”, LS Roman revival buildings, cars passing; 03:21 - VS PANNING busy upscale dining patio, men give announcement over microphone, men hold flag “Club de Leones”; 06:05 - PAN MLS beach in front of resort, MLS resort swimming pool with palm trees; 06:36 - CU bright pink flowers; 06:49 - MS diving board with sign “Varadero”; 06:57 - VLS PAN Varedero International building; 07:25 - CU bright exotic flowers; 07:55 - HA cars parked, driving on street, TILT up cityscape; 08:36 - HA flower stand, people walking on sidewalk, sitting on a bench; 09:10 - LS Capitol Building, cityscape; 09:37 - night, VS building lit with yellow lights contouring architecture; 10:17 - VS people walking on sidewalks, cars parked, Asian outdoor market; 11:46 - VS park with large pond and many trees and flowers, families play in the park; 13:14 - older man, demonstrating opening a small door that appears to lead to a jail cell; 13:36 - VMS people walking on busy sidewalk, shops in background, cityscape behind them; 16:12 - VS field of pineapple plant, CU pineapple; 16:43 - man demonstrates climbing to top of a coconut tree using ropes as stirrups for his feet; 18:14 - MS cock fight, man steps in and holds the winner in the air; 19:20 - VS farmers plowing field, plow pulled by cows; 20:41 - plane window POV clouds and blue sky, interior passengers on plane; 21:22 - pier POV dolphins, sea turtles, sting ray swimming in green water below, CU lifeguard stand “theater of the sea”; 23:59 - SA man holds fish from platform high in the air, dolphin jumps from water an takes the fish; 24:16 - HA beach filled with people on lounge chairs with umbrellas, HA swimming pool, MLS families playing in sun; 25:06 - PAN countryside vegetation, marsh, palm trees, CU grain; 25:49 - PAN rural Havana dirt road in between fields, farmers on horseback, MCU palm tree, MS men walking dirt road carrying bundles of fish on hooks; 26:29 - PAN mountainside, green vegetation, exotic flowers, rounded down low mountains; 27:48-29:26 - LS city building with American flag, CU American flag blowing in wind, man walks towards camera balancing a large basket of flowers on his head, garden POV cityscape
Cfa elements: 662 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2643
Subjects: Tourism; Zoos; Travel; City and town life; Beaches; Amateur Film Clubs
Places: North America > Cuba > Havana
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - handheld VS flamingos in a pond; 01:40 - MS women sitting looking through a fence; 02:02 - MS alligator with mouth open; 02:07 - CU bright red/yellow exotic flower; 02:19 - VS statue of deer, PAN LEFT highway; 02:51 - sign “Zoologico”, LS Roman revival buildings, cars passing; 03:21 - VS PANNING busy upscale dining patio, men give announcement over microphone, men hold flag “Club de Leones”; 06:05 - PAN MLS beach in front of resort, MLS resort swimming pool with palm trees; 06:36 - CU bright pink flowers; 06:49 - MS diving board with sign “Varadero”; 06:57 - VLS PAN Varedero International building; 07:25 - CU bright exotic flowers; 07:55 - HA cars parked, driving on street, TILT up cityscape; 08:36 - HA flower stand, people walking on sidewalk, sitting on a bench; 09:10 - LS Capitol Building, cityscape; 09:37 - night, VS building lit with yellow lights contouring architecture; 10:17 - VS people walking on sidewalks, cars parked, Asian outdoor market; 11:46 - VS park with large pond and many trees and flowers, families play in the park; 13:14 - older man, demonstrating opening a small door that appears to lead to a jail cell; 13:36 - VMS people walking on busy sidewalk, shops in background, cityscape behind them; 16:12 - VS field of pineapple plant, CU pineapple; 16:43 - man demonstrates climbing to top of a coconut tree using ropes as stirrups for his feet; 18:14 - MS cock fight, man steps in and holds the winner in the air; 19:20 - VS farmers plowing field, plow pulled by cows; 20:41 - plane window POV clouds and blue sky, interior passengers on plane; 21:22 - pier POV dolphins, sea turtles, sting ray swimming in green water below, CU lifeguard stand “theater of the sea”; 23:59 - SA man holds fish from platform high in the air, dolphin jumps from water an takes the fish; 24:16 - HA beach filled with people on lounge chairs with umbrellas, HA swimming pool, MLS families playing in sun; 25:06 - PAN countryside vegetation, marsh, palm trees, CU grain; 25:49 - PAN rural Havana dirt road in between fields, farmers on horseback, MCU palm tree, MS men walking dirt road carrying bundles of fish on hooks; 26:29 - PAN mountainside, green vegetation, exotic flowers, rounded down low mountains; 27:48-29:26 - LS city building with American flag, CU American flag blowing in wind, man walks towards camera balancing a large basket of flowers on his head, garden POV cityscape
Cfa elements: 662 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2643
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:06