Virgin Islands trip, Cuba I, 1938--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 1

Date1938

Can DescriptionsV.I.[Virgin Islands] trip. Cuba I. 1938 Feb 16-26

Donor-supplied Notes9/18/65 2(3) 1938 Feb 16-27 (V.I. to Cuba) A (title) Sam-o-Grams in Cuba Starts: girl, boat, sunset, statues, waterfront, (How in Cuba?) Mary, girlfriend (came off boat) - went to B+ Large cemetary CHILDREN DRESS UP, PARADE Evangeline (boat) HORSE RACE TRACK, Sam Resnek? - complete A- THE END

Viewing NotesColor “Sam-o-grams in Cuba” “Havana Cuba” American Express poster. Portrait shot of a woman, pan up to “Kodak Cubana” sign above her head. Shots of a ship in the sunset. Men on the waterfront. A man in uniform saluting in front of the Monument to the Maine in Havana, Cuba. Man in uniform walking away from monument. Cuban coats, cars in street, masks hanging on lamp poles, another man with a camera, shots around Havana. Two women on a bench. Men on a bench playing guitar. Man walks toward camera. Shots around a garden. Two women in garden with flowers, posing. Flowers, a radio building, men plowing with oxen, CU on “CMBQ Radioteatro Ideas Pazoz” sign. Man and boy with oxen plowing, cu on oxen. Men working in fields. Arch with “Fuerzas Armadas” inscribed. Woman in black, cemetery graves, driving through graveyard. Various shots taken on the street in Havana: guards, streets, buildings, man walking by. CU of young girls in costume, girls with balloons. More women in fancy dress –Portrait shots of children in costume and some of parents/ nannies. Docked ship, “Evangeline,” pan down to small boat with “Britannic” sign on top. People in the small boat, shots from the boat of ocean liner, shoreline and buildings around port. People sitting on dock of a bigger boat. Horse track. People around the track. Sign “Para Socios Del Club / For Club Members Only.” People dining on a patio, horses on the track, pan of building. More shots of people around the track. Horses racing. Jockeys dismounting. More footage around track. Self-portrait of Horovitz with camera reflected in mirror of club. Flowers around track. More track footage. “The End” title

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• Samuel B. Horovitz

• Samuel B. Horovitz