SATOUR TRAVEL COMPANY 1960s TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELOGUE 64014
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Disclaimer: This historic film was produced during the apartheid era in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
This film "Flight to the Sun" is presented by the South African Tourism organization known as Satour (:22) with music created and composed by Harry Rabinowitz (:32). It begins at the London Airport (:52) as a sign for ‘Customs Douans’ appears (:57) and the narrator boards a South African Airways flight. On board the plane -- probably a Douglas DC-7B,, the pilot is radioing air control as the picture turns to the air control tower (1:33) and the planes takes off. A picturesque shot of the Alps is captured (2:18) and the route will lead to Africa. At the Ciampino Airport (2:57) the narrator speaks of how each airport is the essence of the city in which it resides. Images of the Coliseum (3:50) and the Trinity Fountain (3:57) in Rome are also depicted. The stunning coast of Capri (4:14) is captured as the narrator boards again and heads further south. At this point they have travelled a total of 3,000 miles (4:33). The narrator traces over a map where the route will take them, over the Mediterranean Sea and the dry deserts of Africa. Stunning glaciers that lead up to the peaks of Mt Kenya fly below (4:48). Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak follows (5:02) as well as volcanic craters (5:06). They approach their destination Johannesburg (5:48). On the ground, he enters a building with the address 44 Main Street (7:10) and from here he heads for 300 miles from the metropolis is Kreuger National Park (7:14). Massive elephants trudge through the safari and a tall giraffe (7:48) is reaching for leaves. The narrator then meets a neighbor and the pair head to capture a shot of a lion (8:33). A cluster of hippos (8:48) roll in the water. A leopard saunters by their vehicle (9:02) as well as lions shortly after (9:15). A sharp contrast to the country, is in Duram and it is the largest event on the racing calendar (9:59) the July handicap. Along the Natal Coast, surfers can be seen riding the Indian Ocean’s waves (10:44). In Zulu, the annual parade begins (11:17). The winding modern roads to Swaziland are considered a major feat (11:35). Natives wash up along river rocks and prepare for the ceremonial Reed Dance (12:00). The young women collect and drop their contributions of reeds in a flurry (13:02) and dancing begins. The final adventure will be big game fishing (13:54) and it begins with a picturesque shot of the coastline (14:35). From the dock (14:42) they are headed for the South Atlantic Ocean (15:21). A fishing line is pulled taught and it is a tunny (17:03). All around porpoise leap in and out of the water (17:03). As his adventure and the film draw to a close, images such as the elephant, the lion and his catch are depicted (17:25).
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The sixties were so classy in every way.
not for black people
And still racist...
@@jeep19There is no such thing.
@@aheat3036what do you mean " no such thing"
Bigotry is not so classy.
Now that's air travel at it's best. Wonderful . Never seen this SAA movie before
7:00 44 Main St Johannesburg. That's the head office of Anglo American/ De Beers. I flew from London to Johannesburg in 1986 as a fresh 21 year old to take up my first job in the mining exploration industry. I visited 44 Main St several times for meetings. The journey wasn't as romantic though. Overnight on a SAA 747. Refuelling at Ilha Do Sal in the Atlantic, as SAA weren't allowed to overfly mainland Africa then due to Apartheid.
Gorgeous score. Can’t have music that just sounds plain mellifluous be the most popular. Need “pop-stars” with tattooed faces to irritate mom n dad!
Thank you for sharing, wonderful memories 💞
Few things to note
‘London Airport’ there’s no distinction due to Heathrow being the main London airport. Although Gatwick was opened in ‘58 so I’m not sure maybe it just wasn’t big enough so maybe ‘London’ meant Heathrow and you had to say ‘Gatwick’ to go there
‘Salisbury (in the airport announcement’ old name for Harare, Zimbabwe (Then called Rhodesia)
‘Jan Smuts Airport’ which was renamed ‘Johannesburg International Airport’ in 1994 when the ANC came into power and then ‘O.R tambo airport’ which is its current name in 2006
‘Visiting Swaziland’ now called ‘Eswatini’ although this change happened very recently in 2018
Believe pilots still use the title "Smuts" when flying into Johannesburgs main airport as a tower sign in.. Is this still true in 2022?
Joburg did not exist 70 years in the movie - this is proof its not 60s, that would make this movie date back to 1956 or earlier as Joburg was founded in 1886. That seems right, all the cars seem 50s or earlier and none after the mid to late 1950s with plenty of post war ones. The plane is a very 1940s style early jet prop.
The latest model I could see at a glace was a 1956 Chevy @ 06:50 and another (nomad) @ 11:46. The Austin-Healey 100 @ 13:54 is probably of the same vintage.
Your maths is lacking, from 1960 til 1886 is 74 years. The DC7 was the last aircraft to use piston engines.
I agree on the cars, especially in London, all 40’s or early to mid fifties models. This movie is probably from the 1950’s, rather than the sixties.
Propellers,good English spoken and cleannnnn.!
Unlike Americas, Australia, new Zealand total colonization failed in Africa. We are are here for the long run. I imagine 1000 years from now
😂 Johannesburg a super civilized metropolis?… Looks that way back then but certainly not now!
A side by side of today could be interesting
Opposite ends of the world as it stands today. But what can you say....It is what it is.
More like a wake up to the dystopian now...
@@zargonfuture4046 I was being a bit facetious
Lol I know you are, but man it's nice to rub it in the present kleptos faces.. For some real nostalgia check out ads like Gunston cigarettes.. It was a great country....
@@zargonfuture4046- without looking it up, I can ALREADY hear the Gunston music in my head😀
11:54 that scared me for a second
Wow 7:00 amazing to see those buildings still standing today. Check google maps.
When we thought we where the best...
You were then
We not only thought we were the best we're still are.
Looks like it used to be a nice place
A nice place for whites but not everyone else
Yeah for Whites only but for Blacks its was hell.
It’s more hell for blacks now, unless you’re an ANC klepto. Life expectancy going down, poverty going up, health care deteriorating, infrastructure crumbling, no electricity, 90% of black Africans wanting to move to white countries…
Yep, unfortunately not much left of it.
Yeah if you oil drills in a meadow.
My word! "Gay social events" certainly have changed since this was made! Tourist tat seems much the same. I reckon this was more like the mid-1950s, judging by everything in the entire film. Nothing 1960s about any of it.
I thought the same, right from the old DC-7 in which he flies with about 5 stops to Johannesburg. That pre-dates the jet age.
Well… the post ‘94 government really stuffed that up!
Think 🤔 of what it could've been, what they could've built if the hearts and minds of the whites weren't so full of hate and racism 🤔
Just like the Afrikaner Government Stuffed up during the Apartheid Era.
The days before ANC MK Swapo took over SA to destroy everything they touched😢
London looks too white ,clean and organised Im so glad its changed for the better.
White South africa❤️
Definitely not the 60s
@Giacomo Why do you say that?
Swati people were advantageous at that time while we were dying but today we advanced more than them
nice bs
I can't recommend being born in 1960 in South Africa
@Vicasso Fourie Wonderful for whites, but it was a delusion.
@Vicasso Fourie for white people yes
I certainly can. There was no crime and everything worked properly and efficiently with little corruption. Unlike today.
@@guylaurie819 yea lovely ... Group Areas Act, Forced Removals, Immorality Act, Censorship, brain washing Christian National Education, etc etc .. and there was Corruption with Afrikaner entitlement ... Muldergate ring a bell? Not too mention the Broederbond inner circle for the handing out of state contracts.
@@guylaurie819 yes apartheid was very efficient in oppression and making sure only white people are safe ,Ill take dirty cities anytime over being treated as a sub human in my land of birth and being made to live life with my capabilities being limited .
Analysed, this film encapsulates the failings of British culture. It is the complacency, smugness, the lack of imagination and self indulgence suggested by the narrative that underwrites the failure to invest, to anticipate the future tht has led us to the industrial decline and economic failure that led us tp Brexit. And tyhat is a failure of imagination of ever there was.
If you say so...
.. I'd think it's more to do with western liberalism that pulled away from the absolute certainty of developing the world to a better and higher standard of development... Being proud of developing the world is not smugness...
Maybe a lack of imagination and confidence led to the abandonment of the Empire and entry into the EEC. The mistakes were made when there were still choices, not once those choices had been squandered.