Beautiful production, exceptional photography, preservation and digitization of this relic. Congratulations.

Ótimo documentário! Bela produção, excepcional fotografia, conservação e digitalização desta relíquia. Parabéns.

Hercules P. Santos
Belo Horizonte - MG

Muito Bom!
Uma oportunidade Histórica e Cultural

Pedro Luiz - BH - MG - Brasil

Hello.

This video is a preciosity! I really enjoyed seen Belo Horizonte in the old times. I wish our city could still look like that! I’m very pleased, thanks a lot.

Best regards,
André Pinho.
http://www.belo-horizonte.travel

This film is a midcentury portrait of Belo Horizonte, Brazil's "planned city with a plan" (wonder if there's any planning involved?). It's not so much about the planning of the city as it is a promotional travelogue about how great the city is, with a heavy focus on the minerals produced in the area. Of course, all of the great things about the city are supposed to be a result of its planning, which controls everything, right down to the schools, churches, recreational facilities, social service agencies, and prisons. By the time they get to the prisons, the "planning" starts to seem a little Orwellian, especially as they end the film with the citizens marching in precise military order, while the narrator rhapsodizes about a "well-ordered Brazil". Fortunately, you just know it's not so neat and tidy in real life.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: **. Weirdness: **. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.

This is almost a travelogue of the city of Belo Horizonte. Many different aspects, for it industry, social programs to entertainment are featured. Nothing really to write home about.
Scariest moment: The manufacture of Mica is done by men, women and children', the narrator boasts proudly.