Early Sound Footage of Havana, Cuba w/ original sound (late 1920's)

YouTube ^ | 01-25-2019 | Guy Jones

[NRx]

Early film from Movietone sound cameras of life in Havana including horse racing, thirsty American tourists at the world famous Sloppy Joe's bar having a legal drink, various scenes of entertainment and night life, religious pilgrims, the Pan American Conference of 1928, the state visit of US President Calvin Coolidge, some scenes of local landmarks and the visit by Charles Lindbergh. (B&W with sound appx 45 minutes)

[Bonemaker]

...and then the democrats (communists) got a hold of it.

[bravo whiskey]

Cuba might have become a Hong Kong if Castro and the commies had been defeated.

[Fiji Hill]

"Ever since the USA went dry,
Everybody's going there,
And I'm going, too.
I'm on my way to Cuba..."

I'll See You in C-U-B-A--Billy Murray (1920)

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 1/25/2019. Thanks NRx.

[firebrand]

Maybe if the New York Times hadn’t called Castro an agrarian reformer.

[colorado tanker]

BTTT