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View of sea shore, a church, an important building, and people playing golf at a golf course in Havana, Cuba.
View from a height of Malecon Avenue in Havana, Cuba. Heavy surf spills over seawall. Cars drive on avenue. Views of Holy Heart of Jesus Church, the Capitoli Nacional building, the downtown shopping district, a Royal Palm bordered boulevard, and a golf course, with players on it.
A man digging a grave in grave yard wipes his sweat in Guatemala.
Graveyard overlooking a rural village in Cuba. Cross monument. Recent grave marker dated 1934. Grave digger, an old man, is deep in a new grave he is digging. He wipes his face and smiles. (Note: film transferred backwards).
Men on horses and pack animals. Climbing a palm tree using rope. Thatched huts. Children chew sugar cane
Scenes of rural Cuba. Men on horses accompany others leading laden pack animals. They move along a dirt path, past rural huts with thatch roofs. One man on horseback, smokes a cigar and carrys a goat. Two little girls watch from their back yard. A man climbs up a large tall palm tree,and slides back down rapidly, using rope as an aid. A woman poses smiling, with two baby girls in her arms. Group of children chew on sugar cane.
School children in sailor uniforms enjoy carousel and other rides. Fulgencio Batista and wife Elisa give gifts to children.
Children in sailor uniforms ride on carousel, ferris wheel, ponies, and other amusements during a fair in Havana, Cuba. A double amputee without lower arms demonstrates his agility. Fulgencio Batista, in the uniform of a Brigadier, assists his wife Elisa, distributing fruits,food packets, and toys to small children, at a table. Small children dressed in sailor outfits come in line to collect the gifts. Boys in sailor uniforms (Sea Scouts?) parade. Batista and his wife appear in a makeshift reviewing stand with other officials, watching the parade. Men dressed in various costumes, as cock, joker, gorilla, and other costumes, plus one on stilts, also parade. View of the gift line, again, where Batista and his wife are now joined by several military officers and two more ladies. Girls line up and clap showing their gifts.
Rural Afro-Cuban villagers play various drums while couple dances and onlookers watch
A man smiles. An Afro-Cuban woman dances to the beat of drums in front of a thatched roof building. Villagers and visitors, including children,watch. Several Afro-Cuban young men pose with a variety of drums. One holds a metal device with two blades ( home made clavés?) They play and a man joins the woman in dancing. A boy in background, watching, puts on a hat and holds a lunch pail over his arm. (Note: Reportedly this is rare footage showing Yuka dancing, the precursor to modern Rhumba styles, and one of the many prototype couple dances in the Americas, similar to batuque, for example, in Brazil). It features the 3-part yuka drum ensemble, and an African-derived double bell.)