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The Casino de la Playa Orchestra, led by Guillermo Portela, with singer Miguelito Valdes playing maraccas at the Casino La Playa club in Havana Cuba.

Casino de la Playa Orchestra performing at the Casino La Playa in Havana Cuba. Various musical instruments are played and the orchestra is led by conductor Guillermo Portela . Cuban dance music in which singer Miguelito Valdes, here seen playing the maracas, is featured. (Later, in 1940, Valdes was hired by Xavier Cugat as a singer.) People seen sitting behind the musicians. Nighttime illuminations on buildings. Patrons dining and dancing.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024199
A dance performance and musicians playing Cuban dance music in Casino de la Playa night club, Marianao Beach, Havana, Cuba

Casino de la Playa, a night club in Marianao Beach, Havana, Cuba. People sitting at tables. A man and a woman give a dance performance. Lights focused on the center. Audience cheer the dancers. Musicians of the Casino de la Playa Orchestra under Guillermo Portela play Cuban dance music. Men and women dance. A young Walfredo de los Reyes seen playing trumpet. Trombone, saxophone, and clarinet players also seen in close ups.and maraccas player and singer is Miguelito Valdes who would later be Xavier Cugat star singer in the early forties

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675024200
Night view of shops displaying goods for Christmas in Havana, Cuba, Lighted names of shops. Articles on display

Illuminated sign advertising ice cream. Automobile traffic on highway at night. Night view of a shopping area in Havana Cuba. Names of shops lighted. Christmas season decorations. Lamp shades, candle holders and other articles in display in a shop. A manequin of a woman displaying clothes. Manequins of babies in corner of a shop. Price tags are placed at base near the articles. Street scene in shopping district. Street car seen. Womens dress featured in window. Store window filled with baby dolls. 'Sloppy Joes Bar' letters lighted.

Date: 1938, December
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024201
Daytime views of city center, Havana, Cuba. Cars, pedestrians, tourists, peddlers, buildings

Daytime views of city center, Havana, Cuba. Traffic and pedestrians. A Cuban street peddler trying to sell maracas to American tourists in an open car. A tourist gives him money but does not want the maracas. Peddler walks away angrily. Sign on a shop reads 'Baizan' . Street cars operating. Scene of park with people seated on benches. Government buildings in background. Silhouette artist seeking customers and several bystanders at street corner, with the Capitolio Nacional building in background.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024202
Sikorsky S-40 Pan American Clipper Seaplanes operating in Havana, Cuba

A Sikorsky S-40 Pan American Clipper seaplane taxis in after landing at Havana, Cuba. It is directed by man standing in small boat. Sikorsky S-40 docked. Its passengers exiting and walking on dock to shore. A Pan American Clipper taxis in, on the water, viewed from behind engine of another docked Sikorsky S-40.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024203
Pan American Airways operating Lockheed Electra L-10 passenger plane at Havana airport, Cuba

Signal men guide a Pan American Airways Lockheed Electra L-10 aircraft to a parking place on Havana Airport, Cuba. Another L-10 taxiing. A tug pulls an L-10 by the tail, past one in a hangar, to a position in front of the terminal building. 'Marti' stenciled on the nose of the plane. Engines are running as passengers walk from the terminal building and board the aircraft. Interspersed are scenes of chocking wheels, engine starts, taxiing and signaling with flag for takeoff clearance.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024204