Nationalist sympathizers are arrested at the Insular Police Headquarters, and placed aboard a bus, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They are transported and seen stepping from a commercial bus with "Mazaguez Linea el Dia" written on its front. The Capitol Building of Puerto Rico can be seen in the distant background. A circular drive in front of a building is filled, bumper-to-bumper, with taxj cabs, labeled "City Taxi."
Vintage slate states that the scenes are from San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, it opens with pre-hurricane views not of San Juan, but of Havana, Cuba, as seen from its harbor. Buildings of Havana Cuba seen, including El Capitolio, the National Capitol Building in Havana. Seen shifts to a covered market area filled with people (possibly still Havana, or possibly now in Puerto Rico. Aerial view of homes and buildings in the city of San Juan in 1932. Scene changes to view of hurricane winds blowing palm trees at 120 mile speed during San Ciprian hurricane. Palm trees on shore blown by wind. Sea water floods city. View after storm of wreckage of houses. People combing through the ruins. Cloth spread on ruins. Women and children walk among ruins. View again of storm in progress with water flooding the area and hurricane force winds.
Map highlights New York in United States and San Juan in Puerto Rico. Connection established between the two places. Baltimore and Miami also connected with San Juan. Map of Island of Puerto Rico. Boats at San Juan harbor. Buildings in background. A Pan American Airways Fokker F-10A trimotor passenger plane lands on airfield. Tourists deplane. A Sikorsky S-40 flying boat being tied up to a dock. Automobiles parked in streets of port city. Buildings in city. Traffic moves on street. Man looks down from balcony of building. Traffic in narrow streets. Cloudy sky as seen from seacoast.
Views in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A streetcar moving in front of City Hall. Plaza de Colon located near the Saint Christopher Castle. Statue of Juan Ponce de Leon and view of Cathedral. Automobile leaving Cathedral. Buildings in old San Juan. The Capitol building of Puerto Rico. A train station. Steel transmission towers.
A harbor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Location of Puerto Rico on a map. Ships and boats at the harbor. A shoreline in the background. Various buildings in San Juan.
Tropical waters and shore areas with palm trees in Puerto Rico. U.S. defenses in Puerto Rico, early in World War 2 period. U.S. destroyer patrols at San Juan harbor, the El Moro fortress, and Governor's Palace. San Juan street scenes. Capital building, residential areas and a water fountain.
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