This 1930s travel film about Rio de Janeiro begins with shots of “flying down to Rio” aboard a Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 flying boat. It lands in the harbor of the “gayest city in the Western Hemisphere” at 1:00. At 1:16 public gardens are shown as well as the Sugarloaf in the background. At 1:30 sailing in Rio harbor is shown. At 1:50 is a view of the Sugarloaf and at 1:58 the cable car to the top. At 2:13 is a view from the heights looking down on the city’s famed beaches. At 3:07 is the famed statue of Christ. At 3:30 are shots of the Amazon jungle with snakes (3:41). At 3:57 near Sao Paulo is a snake farm. At 4:35 poison is harvested from the snakes to make anti-venom.

The Sikorsky S-42 was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft to meet requirements for a long-range flying boat laid out by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1931. The innovative design included wing flaps, variable-pitch propellers, and a tail-carrying full-length hull. The prototype first flew on 29 March 1934, and, in the period of development and test flying that followed, quickly established ten world records for payload-to-height. The “Flying Clipper” and the “Pan Am Clipper” were other names for the S-42.

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