Caribbean Dutch Treat
name: label: Collection Director
content: Porterfield, Jeanne
label: Collection Director
content: Chickering, Lisa
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 7: Films and film-related sound recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2015.16, Subseries 7.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film shot in the early 1960s and released in 1963 representing various attractions and destinations throughout the Dutch Caribbean islands. Similar activities are often shot in two or three locations, allowing for comparison; these broader categories include observational footage of architecture and foot traffic in city centers, rural roads and portraits of individuals, tourists enjoying beach and pool resorts, open air markets, fishing, and dancing. Footage of more specific activities and locations includes: a traditional dance performed outside a rural home and for tourists around a pool; the Trans World Radio and Mortimer B. Fuller Jr. Solar Salt Facility campuses in Bonaire; Fort Orange in St. Eustatius; a Hindu marriage ceremony and performances of traditional dance by the Chinese community in Suriname. Footage is devoted to both rural and urban destinations as well as their residents. The film tends toward the informal and humorous and includes footage of the filmmakers themselves.

Locations include: Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Saba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, Suriname.