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Year Published: 1958

Format: 16mm

Description: Made in 1958, "Isles of the Caribbean" is a colorful travelogue film of the Caribbean including Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Curacao, Dominica, pre-revolutionary Cuba, and other nations. Rather than show the countries individually, this film shows the region as a whole, intercutting footage from different locations and unifying them with steady narration and a score by Robert Woolridge. The sugar and other industries are shown, as well as historic sights, beaches, and harbors. Pan American World Airways, known from its founding until 1950 as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991. Founded in 1927 as a scheduled air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use of jet aircraft, jumbo jets, and computerized reservation systems. It was also a founding member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global airline industry association.Identified by its blue globe logo, the use of the word "Clipper" in aircraft names and call signs, and the white pilot uniform caps, the airline was a cultural icon of the 20th century. In an era dominated by flag carriers that were wholly or majority government-owned, it was also the unofficial flag carrier of the United States. During most of the jet era, Pan Am's flagship terminal was the Worldport located at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

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this is a focus leader new secure movies look like this New Year's soundtracks sound like mess perfect so you need this Focus leader first set your lens so that these lines are sharp and clear on all parts of the screen Now set the volume control on your projector the sound level should be adjusted until my voice can be clearly understood in all sections of the room you are now ready to participate in another an American Travel Adventure [Music] foreign you've never been sure that it really exists you don't even know its name but you know this island as well as you know your own Daydreams and someday you'll go yeah someday as easy as dreaming you go [Music] announcing the departure of flipper flight number 271 for Saint Croix Antigua martini Barbados Trinidad [Music] thank you foreign [Music] Dominican Republic Jamaica Cuba Curacao [Music] their names whisper through your mind like a trade wind the islands of the Caribbean [Music] one of them will be your Island foreign sand waiting to be discovered [Music] waiting for you to discover it [Music] Island that seems small enough to be your very own a secret Beach that you share with no one remember [Applause] a secret corner of the world where you live as you please millionaire one day each Comer the next today you're alone completely alone the Island's names whisper through your mind like the sound of the sea St Thomas Saint Martin Saint Vincent St Lucia [Applause] the unexpected islands that Columbus found sailing west to the Indies [Music] one of them will be your Island [Music] your Island waiting to be discovered [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you your Island waiting to be explored [Music] a world of bamboo Groves and giant fern the rainforest of the tropics [Applause] foreign [Music] the trees are heavy with ripening cocoa [Applause] the air is filled with a set of spice the pungent bark of a cinnamon tree sweet round seed of the nutmeg [Applause] the trays of Mace drying in the Sun Columbus made a note in his journal there were Gardens there the most beautiful I have ever seen and Sweet Water and perfusion foreign foreign [Music] a world to explore [Music] in the air the sound of Island music the sound of calypso [Music] bye [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign along this Coast Columbus sailed and planted the flag of Spain in Puerto Rico the memory of Spain is a great Fortress in the Dominican Republic a marble tomb Christopher Columbus admiral of the ocean seas maestroy and governor of the islands [Music] every afternoon is a long slow Summer Afternoon in the oldest city on the islands in the plaza of a little Puerto Rican town a lingering sun-lit memory of Spain [Music] foreign [Music] s first then England and France and Holland sailed into the Caribbean and sent their ships home again heavy with sugar and left their young men behind to build plantations sugar was the gold of the islands 200 years ago it built a world of great ballrooms and crystal chandeliers the old estate houses of Saint Croix Barbados Jamaica the islands are still green with sugar and like everything else in the tropical Sun the rhythm of the Harvest is turned into music [Music] sugar brought the flags of Europe into the Caribbean right right 200 years ago every Island Harbor was a fortress now the forts have grown old and Silent Britain's Men of War once wrote an anchor here under Nelson's command English Harbor on the island of Antigua Lord Nelson's Stockyard [Music] [Applause] one day an island Schooner will put out to sea and you will sail with it the C2 was a [Music] news [Applause] in the back of your mind you remember an old sea chart the water wrinkled and blew Islands a chain of little dots dolphins and mermaids play around the edges you were going to sail on that blue water take a dolphin out of the sea find an island of your own [Applause] find out the truth about mermaids okay [Music] the C2 is waiting to be discovered [Music] the windward Islands the leeward Islands small sheltered Harbors warming themselves in the Sun at Grenada the Schooners put in for a cargo of spice or to be refitted scrape down cleaned and cocked resting in the shallow water of the carinage a cargo of rum and sugar in Barbados the image of an English Seaport set down in the West Indies watched over by Lord Nelson the old uniforms of Nelson's Navy have never been put away [Music] the old traditions are still neatly present and properly starched thank you laughs [Music] in the British West Indies the game is still cricket [Music] the stone towers of England do their best to ignore the Tropical Sun but the sun is still the Sun the streets of Trinidad are warm and simmering with life the four corners of the world have crossed the sea to keep an appointment in part of Spain [Music] the island is half Arabian Nights an oriental fantasy [Music] and the other half is Victorian fairy tale gingerbread castles as English as plum pudding on the North Shore of Jamaica the tropics are tamed into an English garden buried in the sand sunk deep in the bay there may be a chest of Buccaneer gold a pirate secret Harbor the echo of Island drums [Music] foreign [Music] Columbus put it down in his journal the sea is calm tonight and still is a river the evening air is soft and sweet thank you on the island of Martinique there are men who still remember the old town of Saint Pierre they'll tell you that this was once the finest City in the Caribbean elegant Charming very French and then one day the island trembled half a century ago now the capital is for defense [Music] lying there in the Sun [Music] sweet as an old French song please foreign [Music] the island is Curacao the country is Holland [Music] a Little Dutch Harbor in the Caribbean a Freeport stocked for the Treasures of the world [Music] Curacao is as bright and neat as a well-made music box [Music] [Music] the tourist sport is shopping a marathon a game of skill foreign [Music] race a contest on the field of Honor [Music] like a giant mechanical toy a pontoon Bridge called Emma swings open and cuts the town in half [Music] [Applause] Behind the Walls of the old Harbor Fort a traveler's dream Holland England France even the smallest Islands have a taste for luxury and Easy Living [Music] ensued that from you [Music] [Music] the Intercontinental in San Juan [Music] at Varadero beach in Cuba we'll see you now in Havana a taste for Easy Living and an eye for a pretty face Havana Cuba [Applause] thank you foreign s of the Caribbean someday as easy as dreaming you will be there one of them will be your Island your Island waiting to be discovered foreign [Music]


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