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National Geographic SocietyBrazil: South American Medley (1948)

People, industry, customs and climate of Brazil.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: National Geographic Society
Sponsor: N/A
Audio/Visual: Sd, C
Keywords: Regional: Brazil; South America; Latin America

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - December 6, 2003
Subject: Here's *Another* Film About Brazil
This National Geographic film is a standard, though fairly well-made, educational travelogue about Brazil. A few isolated spots of weirdness include some guys in drag in a Mardi Gras parade and venom being harvested at that weird snake ranch in Sao Paulo. But mostly this is just what youd expect.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: SS. Weirdness: ¬¬. Historical Interest: . Overall Rating: $$$.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - February 11, 2003
Subject: Nice overview.
This is a whirlwind tour of Brazil. It provides a nice showcase of what Brazil has to offer. Supplemented by both a nice calming narration and a subtle musical score is nice, but never interferes with the visuals. Though not as deliriously great as 'Adalantes Cubanos' this film is colorful, interesting and fun to watch,

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Studies Brazil, the largest country of South America and its people, industry and customs. Shows Brazil's varied climatic conditions.

Ken Smith sez: Narrated travelogue. One good scene in the Sao Paulo snake pit. Otherwise, a yawner.


01:21:29:00
woman standing with back faced to camera, looking from side of boat out at ocean and setting sun. Man walks behind her, standing next to her on left hand side, he is smoking a pipe

01:21:39:00
mountain in BG, ocean view from high angle

01:21:58:00
harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

01:21:58:00
MS of mountain

01:22:02:00
panning water front from left to right, lots of coastline/ mountains in BG.

01:22:34:00
flower garden, BG contains buildings/palm trees

01:22:44:00
park in city, statue in center

01:22:50:00
busy street, people walking, stores, trolley car passes by.

01:22:57:00
church with trees and parked cars in view, along with people walking by.

01:23:10:00
busy street

01:23:15:00
men selling flowers on side of street, shot pans from left to right, people walking by.

01:23:25:00
beach with lots of people, mountains in BG

01:23:33:00
beach scene with buildings and mountains in BG, lots of people.

01:23:40:00
people sitting on beach, some with umbrellas, ocean waves, buildings in BG

01:23:41:00
MCU of parade, men playing instruments with straw hats.

01:23:45:00
busy area, lots of people in costume moving around.

01:23:48:00
ten girls in car, clapping hands dancing about.

01:23:54:00
man dressed up dancing in street

01:24:00:00
two young children in costume walking down street holding hands with each other, one on right is holding mans hand.

01:24:09:00
man dressed in costume walking toward camera, dancing about.

01:24:18:00
birds-eye view of Rio de Janeiro

01:24:27:00
shot of mountain with water, other mountains in BG.

01:24:39:00
high shot of Rio de Janeiro, pans right.

01:25:16:00
low shot of mountain with cross on top.

01:25:24:00
panning shot of Rio harbor, large boats in water.

01:26:00:00
boat in port with smoke coming out of pipe.

01:26:08:00
pipe coming out of building

01:26:16:00
bags coming out of pipe, falling onto wooden slide, at bottom men are packing them into boat.

01:26:30:00
group of bags being lifted off boat with crane.

01:26:37:00
rope being wound up.

01:26:40:00
black man wearing white T-shirt and hat, looking to left, downward.

01:26:49:00
sacks being lifted off boat, birds-eye view of this, two men can be seen also.

01:26:54:00
aerial view of Rio, shots of many different towns.

01:27:32:00
MS of bridge in city, school bus crossing it along with lots of people. BG contains buildings.

At 01:27:48:00
city of SAO PAULO, PAN from left

01:28:15:00
sailors standing around snake farm.

01:28:26:00
man holding stick, lifting snakes onto a slide, they slide down slide into pit. BG has people observing

01:28:34:00
men in white jackets holding snakes.

01:28:43:00
two men in lab coats holding a snake, man on left wearing bow tie, has stick under his arm. BG has red flowers.

01:28:46:00
CU of men's hands, man on left holds snake while man on right removes venom.

01:29:06:00
three people sitting in boat - man in center of boat, wearing hat, women in each end of boat, all three are leaning over side of boat picking lilies from top of water.

01:29:15:00
lilies floating on top of water.

01:29:18:00
CU of lilies, flower floating on top of water.

01:29:25:00
building on top hill

01:29:30:00
people rowing a boat down a river, BG has trees

01:29:44:00
bird flying off from side of river, flies down side of river.

01:29:53:00
shots of birds taking off

01:30:08:00
man standing in center view wearing red jacket/hat, pointing at something in front of him; there is another person on right, along with bull on left.

01:30:12:00
person putting saddle on bull, has on hat, woman to left, also has on hat.

01:30:14:00
MCU of bull horns, pans to man riding it.

01:30:20:00
two men riding bulls, more begin to move past the camera.

01:30:30:00
ship in port with lots of people around.

01:30:38:00
three people sitting on ground, two children eating food, older man also in view, CU of young boy eating food, MS of boy eating
food.

01:30:57:00
CU of bowl of grapes

01:30:59:00
MS of two men/one boy sitting and picking at a plant.

01:31:06:00
sail boat docked

01:31:17:30
two men, one helping other lift boards onto his head.

01:31:33:30
shot of harbor, smoke coming out of smokestack far in distance

01:31:44:00
shot of river, few boats floating around.