This 1950 Coronet educational film “Cuba: Land and People” introduces viewers to Cuba through the form of a bus journey across the Island from Santiago to Havana. It shows natural beauty in the eastern part, vast agricultural resources in the central part, and culture and tobacco in the western part of the island. The pre-revolutionary film continuously stresses the importance of Cuba to the United States and how most of Cuba’s exports end up in the USA.

0:08 Educational Collaborator A. Curtis Wilgus, 0:13 various shots from the Cuban countryside, 0:29 people talking to each other with close up shots of different ethnicities, 1:01 map of the Caribbean, 1:44 a map of Cuba with major cities labelled, 1:58 old buildings in Santiago including fortifications in the harbor, 2:26 San Juan Hill with a memorial to a battle against the Spanish, 2:49 map of Cuba showing the central highway from Santiago to Havana, 3:02 people getting on a bus in Santiago, 3:41 an artisan manganese mine, 2:56 mahogany being prepared for export, 4:23 sugar cane plantation with laborers harvesting plants, 5:22 the hut of one of the laborers where he meets his family, 5:58 different shots of sugar cane being processed at the sugar mill, 6:22 workers stacking sacks of sugar, 6:44 fields of pineapples, 7:05 laborers harvesting tobacco, 7:21 workers rolling cigars in a factory, 8:02 the Prado and the University of Havana, 8:20 the Parliament Building in Havana, 8:32 people enjoying themselves at a beach, 9:03 sights in Havana as seen from a car including a statue of Jose Marti, Columbus Cathedral, the Havana docks, and Morro Castle, 9:50 summary footage of Cuba’s exports, 10:26 The End Coronet Instructional Films

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