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[1930s / 1940s (?) – Color, Home Movies: Brazil Amazon River Cities: Belem; Itacoatiara; Manaus] Color. Snippets: MCU men in rowboat; waves on beach.
06:00:16 Belem, Para, Brazil (?). Pool & topiary w/ hotel (?) behind. Boy pushed on skate board on sidewalk. Pan row of tile roofed stucco houses, LS thatched houses on beach w/ ocean beyond. MCU woman w/ pipe & men; men & pack horses standing beside street. LS street w/ boys & large puddles. Boys & pack mules along street. Flower. Pack mules w/ empty wooden carriers, man following.
06:01:05 City center park w/ concrete art deco clock tower; pan & tilt to large building.
06:01:13 Young children in gutter, some naked. Workers along railroad tracks past tarps covering ??. Men on boat / barge w/ fuel drums thru muddy water; on river w/ small boats w/ single sails; others sail & jib on Amazon (?) river; two-masted. Docked boats in small town past river freighter; anchored barges; warehouses, people & docked boats.
06:03:01 Small obelisk monument in paved park of shrubs & benches.
06:03:14 Many docked small fishing boats w/ Ver-o-Peso market building spires behind. Vendors sitting w/ pottery, etc. on sidewalk. Dock w/ park & large trees behind.
06:03:43 POV on river w/ floating debris &vegetation, shoreline jungle & reflections; white barked trees, sunset.
06:05:02 Village along river bank. MS small canoes, steps down to river; town street up; goats eating vegetation; river ferry close to shore & gangway.
06:06:00 Itacoatiara, Amazonas. Empty village street, Brazil flag on pole. Large stone / rock church, pan to dirt street. Houses, fences & dirt streets to river w/ boat docked nose to shore. Small girl in white dress. Bow of river freighter (?) Man holding small child. Lawn w/ ?? drying on sheets. Docked small barges, boats. Man & boy in rowboat. Sunset & hole thru dark clouds.
06:08:05 River from boat.
06:08:11 Manaus, Brazil. Fountain, pan to ornate Customs House & Alfanega Lighthouse (brief). Ornate buildings, streets && pedestrians, cars & trolley, pack animals. Government (?) building.
06:09:17 B/W Boys on horses. People in large empty grass park w/ monument of man in center; MS of rear of monument. Street views. Tilt down bronze statue of draped figure of woman. Pans of streets, houses, ornate buildings.
06:11:00 Vendor w/ cart under shade of topiary beside patterned sidewalk & monument in St. Sebastian Square / Praca Sao Sebastiao. Pan Amazonas Theatre w/ dome & columns & to St. Sebastain statue.
06:12:36 Tilt up ornate stone column to bust in front of Amazonas Theater. High Angle / HA topiary tree-lined street to river. Other streets. Church 19th Century building fronts, clock.
06:14:12 Color. Belem, Para, Brazil. Narrow stone street; work crew laying stones. Empty chairs for street cafe.
06:14:20 Man carrying coffin on head on cobblestone street, tilt up facade of ornate Theatro da Paz / Peace Theater & other shots of same building w/ many columns. Street scenes; giant tree; trolley; sunset.
06:15:04 Men in lifejackets on deck, beginning to lower lifeboats.
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