And so has the price of airfares fallen since the time of this movie. Flying to these destinations in 1948 was pretty much only affordable for the well to do.
I really love these old films. My family is from Puerto Rico. I sometimes think about how it must have been back in those times. It sure looks beautiful. Im sure there were problems like any other eras but things just seemed simpler and more laid back.. I sometimes imagine myself going back in time and visiting my Grandfather when he was a young man growing up in Puerto Rico. Would be so interesting...
As an ex. PanAmer, I enjoy these old advertising movies ... I used to take care of those movies in our Pan Am office in Brussels (Belgium) ... Occasionnally I watched these movies in our projection rooms, where they were shown using a "Bell & Howell" sound projector. I worked for PanAm Reservation & Ticket Office and at Passenger services in BRU, from 1968 till 1991, and then for Delta Airlines after the PanAm takeover by them
20:07 _"Sleek motorcars in a steady stream speed along wide boulevards past buildings of other centuries . . ."_ Hey! Thats right, *those same sleek cars* are still, to this very day, doing the same! I guess Cuba never changes, it's a living museum in Technicolour.
That's difficult for young folks to believe, but I have been there...i sailed to Havana harbor in the late 90's, and took a trip to Santiago de Cuba high in the mountains. Awesome place!! If you ever get the opportunity to go there, you won't regret it. Do a little research first. 😉
@@scowler7200 for the most part, they either fix what's broken with whatever they have on hand. There are many maintenance shops over there that fabricate obsolete parts. They're very resourceful people.
It is hard to believe things were once like this, sure things were not perfect but.. compared to our "modern time" I wish I could go back and relive this time.
It’s hard to believe you can watch a film and think “things were once like this”. Every bit of this was staged and scripted. This vacation would have been far too expensive for the vast majority of Americans at that time.
@@VideoNOLA True, not to mention back then you could hitchhike without being raped and a mysterious handsome stranger like in the film might actually be a nice guy rather than, as today, a lying pervert serial killer.
@@raylopez99 That's not an accurate view of the past. Back then a hitchhiker or hobo disappeared and that was the end of the story. Now in the age of cell phones, security cameras and a 24-hour sensationalist news cycle you hear of abductions on a daily basis. That's the difference...you hear about it.
....When the children of the Industrialists that made bank in the War effort could afford to fly on 2 week vacations. The 50's were particularity all about style, even if there may not have always been substance, to go with it.
This is a seductive glimpse into a lost, somewhat imaginary post-war Caribbean world framed for the camera ... and the purchase of airline tickets. (It wouldn't take long before the natives became restless of the economic disparity brought about by the 'touristas'. )
Arriving at SIG (now Fernando Ribas Dominicci) 2mi. from the center of Old San Juan, not at SJU (Luis Muñoz Marín, open in 1955, named anew since 1985) a few miles NE... (the airport still exists in 2021)
I hope people realize that my comment was as much wishful thinking as fact, yeah I know this was scripted, it is the spirit of the past I am referring to, don't we all like to think once upon a time life could be like this.
In the mid and late 1940's American travel agencies focused on and promoted Caribbean vacation travel instead of what they used to promote and advertise prior to WW2 which was European travel. This was because most of Europe was in a depressed state psychologically and financially to say nothing of its destroyed infrastructure.
Yes Haiti was not always bad and it is very nice, don't listen to the media. Lol if you are thinking like that you would want to avoid any Caribbean nation.
Neither. They were better off under Socarras, when this film was made. According to Wikipedia, a middle class was forming, and vast investments were coming from the outside. From what I can tell, the leadership there has never been ideal, constant violent rotations in power, sometimes with outside influence, just revolution after revolution. I guess anything before Castro was better than before, because tourism and outside money could uplift some of the people, but really the corruption has always been a problem.
At a time when airlines treated passengers like treasured family guests. Now, you are treated like an animal, you're just paying freight, packed in like rats,
Hola una mujer topmodel pin uo girl como sobre las imagenes de gil elvgren...👠👠💕⏳👭el mio corazon reyendo en percibir este feminidad con belleza increible!!! La havana con propliner...dc-3...dc-4...dc-6...dc-7...y todas las coches rusticas sobre la calle✈🛳🚋🏜🏝🚂🚗⛽...las chicas y los chicos en el tiempo pasado...el paraiso dios mio...musica audible...sentimientos angelicos....muchas gracias para la vivacidad!!
@@michaelcap9550 What would surprise him? This is an ad for plane travel as if the average American in the 1950's could or would want to fly to 10 places in 2 weeks.
Those years are nothing like the horrible dictatorship they have now... most Cuban would love to go back to those days... I know, I escaped on a boat in 1980....
@@luistpuig google "anecdotal evidence and why its unreliable". Your side lost and got its ass kicked if Cubans didn't like Fidel you wouldn't have been massacred at the Bay of Pigs.Of course some people don't like him. 40% of Americans don't like Biden and even more don't like Trump.
It was a much better time. No cell phone, no laptop, no email, no fax. You could actually go on vacation and enjoy and socialize with people! Oh sure there are upside but also downsides.
Way back in the day, When Fidel Castro took over, the flights to Havana Cuba were prohibited so then PanAm, started flying to an unknown island, that you could barely see in the map, that island known as San Juan Bautiista, is Puerto Rico, there are a lot of similarities between Cuba & Puerto Rico, like the forts with the sentry boxes,
In addition to this beautifully produced travel inducer, Pan American made some of the most pleasing, colorful, and artistic travel posters that could be seen at their sales locations, as well as in many travel-agent store fronts. Now that Pan American is sadly gone, the remaining airlines shame and harangue travellers about an ill-defined bug that may, or may not pose any danger. Burma-Shave.
Your comment could have stood without offering your ignorance regarding the “bug”. We can’t travel freely because of people who refuse to accept basic science and allow themselves to be deluded by political charlatans - not because the airlines are being mean or the disease is “ill defined”.🙄
@@jacksons1010 Oh, there you are. There always has to one jackass that pops up crying "The science... oh the science, the science!" Nobody cares any more about your opinion than you do about his or mine. If your science was any good it would be obvious and you wouldn't have to threaten people into OBEYING.
@@johnmagill1011 Obeying? It's clear by the continued spread of COVID 19 the population, as a whole, is incapable of making the right choices. Because of ignorance, stupidity, selfishness, and indifference we now have variants of COVID 19 which have and continue to evolve in an attempt to beat our vaccines and therapies. Why do you think we're forced to shutdown? We must shutdown because people refuse to take simple measures to ensure the safety and well-being of themselves and others. Instead of trying to understand the simple science and follow common sense measures, people use their energy to deny the obvious whole screaming their rights are being trampled upon. I find it all so infuriating. Particularly those refusing the life saving vaccines. The worst part of this is how easily avoidable continued spread is. I miss my life. Rather than being out and about enjoying life, I'm still stuck at home 18 months later.....doing my part to prevent further spread. While I am bored at home doctors, nurses, first responders, and others within and supporting the medical system are overwhelmed trying to save the lives of mostly the ignorant, selfish, and foolish. The others fighting to survive are victims. Victims of those either deny the virus or those denying to do their duty for their country and fellow citizens. @Miata149 Perhaps we need to criminalize transmission of the virus. We hold those responsible for injuring others... Why should this be any different. Accidentally shooting someone is a crime. Giving them COVID 19 whether they die or not should be a crime. Child neglect is a serious crime. Why is denying a child the vaccine or a mask any different? Stop the insanity....
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!! (as in any choreographed commercial doc back then) You don't see the amount of napkins and towels needed to dry those faces in between takes..
Where did you get the idea that passports weren’t required? Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, yes…as an American you don’t need a passport, but everywhere else in the Caribbean you did (and still do) even if never asked to show it.
@@simonf8902 You're right, and it leaves me wondering how that worked at the time. I'm going to suppose that the travel agent was arranging visas on your behalf, as the narration does suggest there was a need for prior arrangements. Today you have to show your passport before travel (e.g. a cruise) but you don't have to present it upon arrival on most Caribbean islands.
@@jacksons1010 , There were some wierd arrangements between Cuba and the United States of America at the time. Traveling to and from Florida to Cuba was so common for the wealthy in Florida that thier passports would easily fill up in a year or two. Thus, the no passports agreements that existed for a short time after WW2.
I just watched the beginning. Had to watch the rest to see what you were talking about. She just met the guy and jumped on a plane with him to Cuba. That’s how you get sold into sex slavery.
Goo old days when women in the commercials were actually great looking. Today they must be ugly as a requirement (if not actually not-woman at all). i suppose it is a PC, try to avoid making ugly people feel bad, realizing they are not good looking.
IF Batista hadn't been such an idiot and incompetent Castro never would have had as much support as he did back in the 1950s. As Castro pointed out, he gave the poor farmers most of the paved roads they needed to support farming instead of the rutted mud roads that they had to use under Batista. He provided basic literacy and mathematics schooling to those farmers children so they could survive in the modern world of the 1950s. It cost Castro a teeny tiny percentage of the GDP of Cuba to do that, but it gained him a huge following. Batista never figured out what caused him to be so hated. He was an oblivious stooge wedded to the gambling interests and many USA corporations. To think that basic civil infrastructure improvements and public service improvements might have headed off Castro and the entire Cuban mess that has existed for 65+ years.
WOW! The early history lesson and the liberal use of Cristopher Columbus's name--OUCH! All the tar and pitch would be used on YOU if you said that now!
The entire film exudes class......a time where an unspoken decorum existed in travel and public places.......Sadly,how far we have fallen.........
And so has the price of airfares fallen since the time of this movie. Flying to these destinations in 1948 was pretty much only affordable for the well to do.
I really love these old films. My family is from Puerto Rico. I sometimes think about how it must have been back in those times. It sure looks beautiful. Im sure there were problems like any other eras but things just seemed simpler and more laid back.. I sometimes imagine myself going back in time and visiting my Grandfather when he was a young man growing up in Puerto Rico. Would be so interesting...
Yes, my mom that is 94 years old tells me many stories about the past in Puerto Rico. Greetings from Puerto Rico by the way.
I love it soo and i wish wi have a Time Mashine.
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 Greetings from NYC 🙏🏼💝💐
As an ex. PanAmer, I enjoy these old advertising movies ... I used to take care of those movies in our Pan Am office in Brussels (Belgium) ... Occasionnally I watched these movies in our projection rooms, where they were shown using a "Bell & Howell" sound projector. I worked for PanAm Reservation & Ticket Office and at Passenger services in BRU, from 1968 till 1991, and then for Delta Airlines after the PanAm takeover by them
I can smell the fresh flowers on the streets, oh my poor Havana
An amazing walk down memory lane of the Caribbean.
What a beauty! A vision from a bygone era.....
Periscope Films are some of my favorites... I could watch them all day.
HAHAHA that little character on top of her tv... Is that an airplane in your pants or are you happy to see me?"
I see that Cliff is really excited to see her!!
20:07 _"Sleek motorcars in a steady stream speed along wide boulevards past buildings of other centuries . . ."_
Hey! Thats right, *those same sleek cars* are still, to this very day, doing the same! I guess Cuba never changes, it's a living museum in Technicolour.
Beat me to the punch!
That's difficult for young folks to believe, but I have been there...i sailed to Havana harbor in the late 90's, and took a trip to Santiago de Cuba high in the mountains.
Awesome place!! If you ever get the opportunity to go there, you won't regret it. Do a little research first.
😉
I wonder if they're machining replacement parts or smuggling them in...
@@scowler7200 for the most part, they either fix what's broken with whatever they have on hand. There are many maintenance shops over there that fabricate obsolete parts. They're very resourceful people.
@@johnorlitta
Thought so. Probably order repros from Asia too...
It is hard to believe things were once like this, sure things were not perfect but.. compared to our "modern time" I wish I could go back and relive this time.
It’s hard to believe you can watch a film and think “things were once like this”. Every bit of this was staged and scripted. This vacation would have been far too expensive for the vast majority of Americans at that time.
Part of the allure, I assure you, is that there were only half as many humans alive at the time.
@@VideoNOLA True, not to mention back then you could hitchhike without being raped and a mysterious handsome stranger like in the film might actually be a nice guy rather than, as today, a lying pervert serial killer.
Hundreds of years of slavery and 2 world wars didn't destroy cultures as well as the hyperconsumerism and mass media control of next 6 decades.
@@raylopez99 That's not an accurate view of the past. Back then a hitchhiker or hobo disappeared and that was the end of the story. Now in the age of cell phones, security cameras and a 24-hour sensationalist news cycle you hear of abductions on a daily basis. That's the difference...you hear about it.
“Small odor of brimstone”. I’m from PR. Those sentry boxes in Old San Juan are called garitas and they smell like “urine”..LOL
From all the drug addicts that shoot up in them? LOL
There's a great place in Havana that Johnny Ola told me about.
Good catch!
1948
Think about that for a moment.
Only 3 years removed from WW2
Yeah when America didn't fight 20 year unwinnable wars!
@@gaywizard2000 Well that’s what happens when you try to fight politically correct
McConaughey and Monroe lookalikes having a ball in America's playground while a youthful Fidel thinks otherwise.
This Cuba i hear, is an island paradise, where everyone drives vintage American automobiles. Like the one we see at 7:43.
No, most are from later on in the middle 1950s, not the late 1940s.
Wow the days when people dressed up to fly.
....When the children of the Industrialists that made bank in the War effort could afford to fly on 2 week vacations. The 50's were particularity all about style, even if there may not have always been substance, to go with it.
Yea flying was for the upper-class only in that era.
No sweatpants in sight.
@@AirWolfAT6 Nope, just lots of servants sweating...
23:00, what a beautiful sight!
1:43
Freud would have had a lot to say about that forward fucilage extension!
Too PHALIC for my taste.... 😲🥒🍆
Enjoy those cars Cubo's, gonna have em for a bit 👉🤣
Awesome thanks
He forgot to pack her underwear. And man that airplane on him!!!!
I wish I'd been born sooner, so I could have enjoyed the World as it once was.
m'encanta/que rico!
This is a seductive glimpse into a lost, somewhat imaginary post-war Caribbean world framed for the camera ... and the purchase of airline tickets.
(It wouldn't take long before the natives became restless of the economic disparity brought about by the 'touristas'. )
El CARIBE Y SUS ISLAS SIEMPRE HAN SIDO, SON Y SERÁN UNICOS. David G Valecillos V. (Venezuela)
San juan of Puerto Rico ❤❤
Arriving at SIG (now Fernando Ribas Dominicci) 2mi. from the center of Old San Juan, not at SJU (Luis Muñoz Marín, open in 1955, named anew since 1985) a few miles NE... (the airport still exists in 2021)
Let’s go!!
I hope people realize that my comment was as much wishful thinking as fact, yeah I know this was scripted, it is the spirit of the past I am referring to, don't we all
like to think once upon a time life could be like this.
In the mid and late 1940's American travel agencies focused on and promoted Caribbean vacation travel instead of what they used to promote and advertise prior to WW2 which was European travel. This was because most of Europe was in a depressed state psychologically and financially to say nothing of its destroyed infrastructure.
".... the Indians died off ..."
Yeah, facepalmed at that one.
HAITI???!!! Was that place ever somewhere to "visit"? "Clip" obviously likes this blonde.
Yes Haiti was not always bad and it is very nice, don't listen to the media. Lol if you are thinking like that you would want to avoid any Caribbean nation.
They are still driving the same cars.
They haven’t been able to afford new ones since Castro took over.
Can anyone answer this question?Were the Cuban people better off under Batista or Castro?
Neither. They were better off under Socarras, when this film was made. According to Wikipedia, a middle class was forming, and vast investments were coming from the outside. From what I can tell, the leadership there has never been ideal, constant violent rotations in power, sometimes with outside influence, just revolution after revolution. I guess anything before Castro was better than before, because tourism and outside money could uplift some of the people, but really the corruption has always been a problem.
Both had their pros and cons
I don't know where to start. 😬
Around 2:00 - drives me crazy! They keep switching between showing a Connie and a DC-4. Love the film though.
At a time when airlines treated passengers like treasured family guests. Now, you are treated like an animal, you're just paying freight, packed in like rats,
well you definitely don't pay what those ppl used to pay to travel back in the days
Some pilots refer to passengers as "human cargo" . . . .
Travel like that was for those with relatively high percentages of discretionary income, not for the common USA laborer.
In 1948 there was only one class: FIRST CLASS, of the kind international airlines outside the US still give their most affluent passengers.
Hola una mujer topmodel pin uo girl como sobre las imagenes de gil elvgren...👠👠💕⏳👭el mio corazon reyendo en percibir este feminidad con belleza increible!!! La havana con propliner...dc-3...dc-4...dc-6...dc-7...y todas las coches rusticas sobre la calle✈🛳🚋🏜🏝🚂🚗⛽...las chicas y los chicos en el tiempo pasado...el paraiso dios mio...musica audible...sentimientos angelicos....muchas gracias para la vivacidad!!
Back then Cuba was ruled by the _right_ dictatorship, that being a dictatorship favorable to U.S. corporations. Hence, no U.S. trade embargo.
Michael Moore needs to watch this.
@@michaelcap9550 What would surprise him? This is an ad for plane travel as if the average American in the 1950's could or would want to fly to 10 places in 2 weeks.
Those years are nothing like the horrible dictatorship they have now... most Cuban would love to go back to those days... I know, I escaped on a boat in 1980....
@@luistpuig google "anecdotal evidence and why its unreliable". Your side lost and got its ass kicked if Cubans didn't like Fidel you wouldn't have been massacred at the Bay of Pigs.Of course some people don't like him. 40% of Americans don't like Biden and even more don't like Trump.
Batista was corrupt the country was controlled by the mafia and American corporations, but Castro's goverment was helpful and corrupt in its own ways.
Anyone know who the babe is?
“ lusty buccaneers “ !!!! Lol
It was a much better time. No cell phone, no laptop, no email, no fax. You could actually go on vacation and enjoy and socialize with people! Oh sure there are upside but also downsides.
Way back in the day, When Fidel Castro took over, the flights to Havana Cuba were prohibited so then PanAm, started flying to an unknown island, that you could barely see in the map, that island known as San Juan Bautiista, is Puerto Rico, there are a lot of similarities between Cuba & Puerto Rico, like the forts with the sentry boxes,
"Before both our time!" I.barely made it ? 🙏
Pobre cuba.....
07:05 that pilot is a G.
If you watch the movie "Aviator "it was the CIA that needed to beat Howard Hughes
Did the narrator say the savage carribs??? What an insult!
Well, they were cannibals …
Commercials every 5 minutes and then pop up ads during the film. How much money does Periscope Film need?
In addition to this beautifully produced travel inducer, Pan American made some of the most pleasing, colorful, and artistic travel posters that could be seen at their sales locations, as well as in many travel-agent store fronts. Now that Pan American is sadly gone, the remaining airlines shame and harangue travellers about an ill-defined bug that may, or may not pose any danger. Burma-Shave.
Your comment could have stood without offering your ignorance regarding the “bug”. We can’t travel freely because of people who refuse to accept basic science and allow themselves to be deluded by political charlatans - not because the airlines are being mean or the disease is “ill defined”.🙄
@@jacksons1010 Oh, there you are. There always has to one jackass that pops up crying "The science... oh the science, the science!" Nobody cares any more about your opinion than you do about his or mine. If your science was any good it would be obvious and you wouldn't have to threaten people into OBEYING.
@@johnmagill1011 Obeying? It's clear by the continued spread of COVID 19 the population, as a whole, is incapable of making the right choices. Because of ignorance, stupidity, selfishness, and indifference we now have variants of COVID 19 which have and continue to evolve in an attempt to beat our vaccines and therapies.
Why do you think we're forced to shutdown? We must shutdown because people refuse to take simple measures to ensure the safety and well-being of themselves and others. Instead of trying to understand the simple science and follow common sense measures, people use their energy to deny the obvious whole screaming their rights are being trampled upon. I find it all so infuriating. Particularly those refusing the life saving vaccines. The worst part of this is how easily avoidable continued spread is. I miss my life. Rather than being out and about enjoying life, I'm still stuck at home 18 months later.....doing my part to prevent further spread. While I am bored at home doctors, nurses, first responders, and others within and supporting the medical system are overwhelmed trying to save the lives of mostly the ignorant, selfish, and foolish. The others fighting to survive are victims. Victims of those either deny the virus or those denying to do their duty for their country and fellow citizens.
@Miata149 Perhaps we need to criminalize transmission of the virus. We hold those responsible for injuring others... Why should this be any different. Accidentally shooting someone is a crime. Giving them COVID 19 whether they die or not should be a crime. Child neglect is a serious crime. Why is denying a child the vaccine or a mask any different?
Stop the insanity....
@@J.Cameron.Stuart.Adams. Well said Cameron!
1948, COVID-19 was unknown then, but there was, as I remember, “Polio Season”.
Wow, who knew that Clippy had an even creepier and more punchable cartoon namesake?
No one is wiping sweat, how is this possible
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!! (as in any choreographed commercial doc back then)
You don't see the amount of napkins and towels needed to dry those faces in between takes..
"El Morro crowns it's jutting promentory, rigid, forceful as a male...fist!" LOL who wrote this stuff?
I ran that back, too, with "what was that, now"? Actually, he said "mailed fist", as in chain mail (armor).
No passports.
Where did you get the idea that passports weren’t required? Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, yes…as an American you don’t need a passport, but everywhere else in the Caribbean you did (and still do) even if never asked to show it.
2:00
@@jacksons1010 just quoting the movie.
@@simonf8902 You're right, and it leaves me wondering how that worked at the time. I'm going to suppose that the travel agent was arranging visas on your behalf, as the narration does suggest there was a need for prior arrangements. Today you have to show your passport before travel (e.g. a cruise) but you don't have to present it upon arrival on most Caribbean islands.
@@jacksons1010 ,
There were some wierd arrangements between Cuba and the United States of America at the time. Traveling to and from Florida to Cuba was so common for the wealthy in Florida that thier passports would easily fill up in a year or two. Thus, the no passports agreements that existed for a short time after WW2.
That lady must have had some good drugs.
Good drugs or not, it looks like she snagged a good man!
I just watched the beginning. Had to watch the rest to see what you were talking about. She just met the guy and jumped on a plane with him to Cuba. That’s how you get sold into sex slavery.
What is this futuristic utopia?
The 20th century
Goo old days when women in the commercials were actually great looking. Today they must be ugly as a requirement (if not actually not-woman at all). i suppose it is a PC, try to avoid making ugly people feel bad, realizing they are not good looking.
Mr. Reed is a drug dealer. The mook pilot hands her right off to him like a chump.
women today pay big money to plastic surgeons to try and look 5% as pretty as this woman
I guess the Dominican Republic is not part of the caribbean
Boy and Castro ruined it all for them . To then live in misery, Better watch out what YOU say!
IF Batista hadn't been such an idiot and incompetent Castro never would have had as much support as he did back in the 1950s. As Castro pointed out, he gave the poor farmers most of the paved roads they needed to support farming instead of the rutted mud roads that they had to use under Batista. He provided basic literacy and mathematics schooling to those farmers children so they could survive in the modern world of the 1950s. It cost Castro a teeny tiny percentage of the GDP of Cuba to do that, but it gained him a huge following. Batista never figured out what caused him to be so hated. He was an oblivious stooge wedded to the gambling interests and many USA corporations. To think that basic civil infrastructure improvements and public service improvements might have headed off Castro and the entire Cuban mess that has existed for 65+ years.
Disgusting ads
WOW! The early history lesson and the liberal use of Cristopher Columbus's name--OUCH! All the tar and pitch would be used on YOU if you said that now!
Havana,Cuba was where I was born. If there was no Batista there would be no Castro. And I would be doing I know not!