Footage of Florida, Cuba, and Central America
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1989.20.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boys, Charles
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content: Charles Boys films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (36 minutes, black-and-white color silent; 1236 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Charles Boys' Footage of Florida, Cuba, and Central America."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage taken during travels in Florida, Cuba, Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), and Nicaragua. Florida footage includes migrant workers planting and harvesting at Palmer Farms, elephant act at the Barnum and Bailey Circus headquarters, Marine Studios, Seminole Indians posing with tourists, and Florida swamp style air boats and dugout canoes. Cuban footage includes harbor scenes, Havana street scenes, rural scenes of countryside and village including dwellings and inhabitants, sponge fishing, and mangrove swamps. Central American footage includes peasant dwellings; archeological sites including Chichen Itza; market scenes; Managua, Nicaragua street scenes and architecture including a cathedral; and bullfight.