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Here's a home movie from the 1950s showing a trip to Cuba.
CU woman in lipstick with hand on his smoking in a doorway, blowing the smoke at the camera.
Well-dressed graying man gestures next to a car and walks.
Local man in masculine pose in the middle of the street; cut to this man posing with another man, still in the street.
Shot of building with sign “RESTAURANT”. Pans to sign “CASA RICARDO / COLCHONES OK” over street with row of parked cars.
A hand-painted banner lists the American feature film "The Young Lions" and some of its stars like "Marlon Brando" and "Montgomery Clift" and that the film plays "in CinemaScope." The Spanish name of the film, “Los Dioses Vencidos,” is also on the banner. The banner itself hangs over a dirty archway, likely to a movie theater.
Cut to shot of mountains, pans down to telephones pole and a town.
Shot of shore taken from moving vessel on ocean. Shot of ocean horizon taken from moving vehicle.
Three young Cuban boys bath in the water.
CU a white cottage with a straw roof, on the shoreline.
CU large white steamboat on a trailer, labeled Isla del Tesoro on its side.
Small boat leaves dock, shot from directly behind.