This 1950s color travel film titled “Fabulous Fishin’ in South America” was produced by Sound Masters, Inc. New York and sponsored by Johnson Motors, Panagra Airways, Pan American World Airways, and South Bend Bait Company. The film promotes and celebrates the ease of travel to South America for the sake of fishing and exploring the world’s natural wonders thanks to Panagra flights connecting the United States and Latin America. Panagra which stands for Pan American-Grace Airways was known by the moniker “The World’s Friendliest Airline” and was a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and Grace Shipping Company that offered flights between the United States and the west coast of South America,

Opening credits overlaid the outline of South America (0:10). Panagra airplane on tarmac (0:27). South Bend Bait Company fishing equipment is loaded onto the plane (0:44). View out of the plane window at mountains outside Lima, Peru (0:58). Plane descending into Santiago, Chile (1:10). Crowd awaits the plane at Los Cerrillos Airport (1:44). Fisherman opens a South Bend tackle box to prepare for trout fishing with a fly rod (2:21). Cars drive through mountainous landscape (3:13). Lake with rainbow trout (also known as the Chilean Steelhead Trout) in the High Andes Mountains (3:23). Flamingos, ducks, and geese on the lake’s shoreline (3:58). Fisherman proudly holds his catch of a rainbow trout (4:56). A woman fishes on the lake (5:02). Stu reels in a big catch (5:43). Pan American Boeing 377 clipper plane lands in Montevideo, Uruguay (7:29). Aerial shot of Montevideo (8:18). The Salto Grande Big Falls of the Uruguay River (8:26). Stu and Cease set off on the river to fish for Dorados (also called Mahi-Mahi) (8:39). Five horsepower marble speed boat engine (9:01). A dorado is reeled in (10:28). Stu uses a long two-handed casting rod (10:47). Aerial shot of Montevideo from the plane (11:46). Shot of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina (12:03). View of the Andes Mountains from a plane window (12:13). Fishing boat pulls out of the port town of Iquique in Northern Chile headed towards Humboldt Current in order to catch Giant Striped Marlin and BroadBill Swordfish (12;26). Process of reeling in a swordfish (13:13). Process of reeling in a striped marlin (15:14-20:28). Passengers board a Panagra plane (20:32). Panagra flight takes off to return to the United States (21:16).