Shot by an unknown American tourist, this film shows a voyage aboard the SS Hibeuras to Central and South America. It dates to the 1950s.

00:08 Montage: aboard the banana boat type ocean liner S.S. Hibeuras, which carries cargo as well as passengers. Lifeboat drill including firing of a flare. Passengers are Americans in casual/beachwear. The ship approaches port. 02:55 Passengers exit S.S. Hibueras. 03:15 Montage: Ship entering the Panama Canal. Canal opens and ship enters. 05:39 Exterior of Carondelet Palace in Plaza Grande (Independence Square). 05:44 Montage of pedestrians and streets in Quito, Ecuador. 07:11 Quito skyline. 07:33 A couple sits atop the Monument to the Equator in The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo. 08:06 Plane shots of mountains. 08:36 Snowy peaked mountains. 09:00 Farmer with two llamas eating from brush. 09:17Landscape of Pukamuqu and Cristo Blanco (white Christ) statue. 09:17 Montage of exploration of Sacsayhuamán citadel in the historic capital of the Inca Empire, Cusco, Peru. 09:57 Couple pose in arch. 10:29 Pan over Cusco city line. 10:46 Woman holding dog poses with white tourist. 10:58 Shots of ancient Inca walls. 11:10 A young boy eyes camera. 11:15 Woman reaches into stone fountain. 11:33 Two indigenous people demonstrate string craft. 12:31 Woman reaches into hole in stone wall. 12:37 Hillside covered in llamas. 13:06 Street market crowded with shoppers and vendors. 13:24 Road with cathedral at end. 13:35 Couple enter building. 13:47 Man with shovel poses. 13:51 Shovel laid against wall. 13:53 Clay house with Coca-Cola sign. 13:58 Exterior shots: Cusco Cathedral (The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin) in the Plaza de Armas. First Christian building in Cuzco. 14:58 Rooster bites fence. 15:06 Llamas at fence. 15:18 Boar eats. 15:34 Girl pets boar. 15:36 Car drive pedestrian street. 15:50 Inca wall shots of exact architecture. 16:19 Montage of tourists exploring Machu Picchu. 17:06 Urubamba River below. 17:10 Tourists walk around ruins through fog. Montage of ruins and surrounding landscape. 19:28 Peruvian men, likely Quechua, dressed in red ponchos. 19:35 City market crowded with people. 20:04 Landscape. 20:12 The Government Palace or House of Pizarro in Lima, Peru. Guards stand at gate. Residence of President of Peru. 20:29 House by coastline. 21:01 Waves crash into wall. 21:11 Pan over bay. 21:24 Beach. 21:37 Horse drawn carriage. 21:47 City line. 22:05 Plane window landscapes. 22:11 Coastline buildings. 22:30 Walk among palm trees. 23:02 Exploring gardens by pond. 23:25 Views of the city from an air tram cable car. 24:24 Tram gears spin. 24:33 Cable car descends. 25:02 Busy beach. 25:31 Mountains. 26:03 Aerial shot: hot spring. 26:16 Street view of Obelisco de Buenos Aires in the Plaza de la República in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. 26:26 Exterior shots of Casa Rosada (Pink House) within the Plaza de Mayo. The official office of the President of Argentina. 27:03 Exterior shots of Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral). 27:15 Ship docked at port. 27:21 Roman garden in Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Botanical Garden). 27:35 The tomb of Enrique Mosconi (Argentine military engineer) within the Recoleta Cemetery, the home of many notable people’s graves. 28:04 The family vault of Familia Federico R. Leloir (Nobel Prize winner in biochemistry). 28:25 Tourist walks among tombs in Recoleta. 28:52 Woman stands with dog. 28:58 Boating down creek. 29:40Parque de la Independencia (Independence Park in Santa Fe, Argentina. 30:14 Woman picking flowers and walking garden. 30:50 Couple on street enter building. 31:37 Man rides horse. 32:13 Tractor rides across fields. 32:47 Exterior of plantation house, potentially on Estancia La Margarita, in rural Argentina. 33:03 Tourist examines bust of man. 33:25 Montage of estate land: horses and other farm animals, fields, buildings, forest, pool. 35:34 Young man hold family crest labeled “Zemborain”. 35:41 Young man rides horse. 36:03 Group builds fire and roasts meats. 37:20 Descend stairs of “La Margarita”. 37:39 Children dance and teens and adults join. 39:21 Tourist walk with linked arms. 39:38 Rural building. 39:56 Row boats, then motor boat travel along river passing locals and other ships. 45:16 Tours walk towards The Amazon Theatre, an opera house in Manaus, Brazil. 45:51 Street views of Manaus. 46:16 Steamship in distant city line. 46:38 Flight shot.

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