Brazilian natives in Brazil. View of a thick forest area with a rock formation. Small houses with a dirt road in front. Three Brazilian girls seated on a bench. View of a bridge over a river. Native people walk on a road. Thatched huts in the background. A girl and a boy wearing shirts of same print. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. The village scenes shown in this clip may show Brazilian workers connected to the Fordlandia rubber plantation)
A dockyard in Brazil. Rusted boats at the dockyard. Rusted remains of the deck of a boat. Two rusted boats in the water at the dockyard. From a Ford film showing scenes in Brazil related to Ford rubber plantation (Fordlandia).
Buildings, fine houses and gardens in Brazil. A building, possibly a grand hotel, with large trimmed umbrella shaped trees in the foreground. A car parked on a street under an umbrella shaped tree. Two young capybaras with their mother in a cage. An old monumental building with palm trees in the foreground. A path with a canopy of trees overhead. Vehicles and pedestrians on the road. A number of fine houses and gardens. A rock garden with a small bridge in one of the houses. A woman walks in a park. People walk towards a large statue in the park. View of a church in Brazil.
President GetĂșlio Vargas resigns after 15 years as President of Brazil. Brazilian troops in tanks and army vehicles guard the President's Palace. Soldiers with rifles in hand. President GetulIo Vargas in his palace balcony. He prepares to depart from the palace. Jose Linhares being sworn in as the next President of Brazil. Jose Linhares shakes hands with Brazilian political leader Monteiro. (World War II period).
Italian submarine Balbarigo on patrol off the coast of Brazil, in South Atlantic waters during World War II. The Balbarigo cruising on the surface and then submerging when it observes several U.S. warships. View from periscope of a U.S. warship firing heavy gun. View, from conning tower of surfaced submarine Balbarigo, of the U.S. freighter Staghound, alone in the waters off the coast of Brazil. The Balbarigo fires its deck gun. View of the freighter Staghound struck in port stern area, burning and sinking.
President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista greeted by President Franklin D Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace in Washington, as Cuba expresses support for Allies in World War 2. Next scene shows armored tanks of Mexico rolling through Constitution Plaza in Mexico City, with Metropolitan Cathedral in background, as Mexico also side with the Allies. Next, President Vargas of Brazil waves from a balcony to cheering crowds in Rio de Janeiro as Brazil declares war. Chileans demonstrate for the United Nations in Santiago, Chile. Chilean demonstrators with flags and banners march on streets. Some carry large pictures of the Allied leaders.