Brazil 221401-06X | Footage Farm
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Rio de Janeiro views w/ beach, tourists & street scenes. Buildings, street signs; light. Business men and others. View of night lights & Carnival party, dancing to large orchestra. Street parade w/ elaborate floats during Mardi Gras, kids watching. Samba bands.
01:01:26 US Embassy, Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey. Map showing relationship to Vichy French West Africa. Europe & Germany etc. Coastal scenes of Brazil.
01:02:05 President Vargas, MCU. Propaganda posters showing Vargas. Vargas & military in fancy dress uniform. Small towns & Japanese-Brazilians, people, signs.
01:03:15 Rio Grande De Sol, German settlements w/ kids & others seen. Church. Banco Germanico.
01:03:44 Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha w/ Caffrey. Vargas on balcony waves to people marching below and waving up.
01:04:09 Schools, ext. & int. w/ students, medical care in schools w/ doctors & nurses.
01:04:40 Constructing sewage systems; spraying for mosquitos. New housing constructed on hillside, girls hang washing, others walking.
01:05:22 Coffee growing, drying, tasting & loading ships. Amb. Caffrey w/ bags of coffee, sniffing. Railroads, trains leaving yards. industrial trains, minerals in cars, large steel mills from outside; interiors. Manufacturing trucks & and army trucks (?).
01:07:11 Textile mill interiors. Hydroelectric power near Sao Paulo. Bus station, modern buildings, four lane highway & tunnels. Belo Horizonte swimming pool & people.
01:08:25 Sumner Welles arriving at Pan American Conference on clipper plane. Int. MCU w/ Wells at mics, others listen. Map w/ Natal & US military air base, C-47 & airmen. Boarding planes, cargo stacked for cities in Africa & Asia. Loading planes & 4-motor transports taking off past camera.
01:09:56 Brazil Minister of Economics Joao Alberto Lins de Barros writing at desk. Natural rubber plant & tire manufacturing, Brazil oil refinery. Mining, excavating quartz for radio equipment. Large crystal shown. Mica sorted, used for electrical equipment. Tantalite bagged. Shipping by army transport, airmen signing for load. C-47 taking off from Rio airport. The End.
WWII, Allies, WW2 Diplomacy, Inter-American Organization, Industries, South America; 1940s; 1944; Educational Film;
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