The Royal Tour - Technicolor (1966)
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2014
- This item is shot in Technicolor.
British Guiana (Guyana).
Various shots of the Orinduik Falls in British Guiana. Several shots of large sugar plantation with men working on it. Several long shots of a village, Dogs, chicken, monkeys etc.
Several shots of Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana. Royal yacht Britannia in harbour. Close up shot of Royal Standard. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, arriving on shore and are greeted by the Governor Sir Richard Luyt and wife. Press taking photographs (mostly black men). Several dignitaries presented to the Queen.
Queen and Duke driving in the open car through crowded streets, people cheering loudly. Queen and Prince Philip waving from the balcony of Parliament building. Mass crowd cheering.
Queen and Prince Philip unveil portraits of themselves in legislative chamber, dignitaries looking on. Queen and Prince Philip driving in the open car to Promenade Gardens, large crowd cheering.
Various shots of the Queen meeting various dignitaries and their wives at the party at Promenade Gardens.
Train arriving to station in the village of Plaisance, large crowd cheering. Queen, Duke and Prime Minster leaving the train. Calypso band playing. Queen and Duke leaving on the train, they wave, crowd waving and cheering.
FILM ID:1785.24
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I agree with you! I was thinking the same thing how much more beautiful it looked.
Guyana looked more beautiful than modern day . Friday September , 9 , 2022.
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So true
yeah. no more trains for one thing... independance hasn't been completely kind to Guyana
Heres a couple of very weird things about the video.
1. the music : alot of this music throughout includes alot of horn/trumpet - which is NOT something you get in Guyana. (I realise that this video was made by the British - so they just stuck in whatever music occurred to them - since theres very little spanish influence in Guyana it makes that music here odd - although maybe it made sense to do it at that time?)
2. The population of Guyana is about 40% Indian!!! and then about 30% Afro-Guyanaese (ie Black), about 20% Mixed (mostly Dougla) and about 10% Amerindian
If you were to judge by this video it would seem the population is 95% Black.
I would suspect thats because in 1966 there was still alot of division between black and indian - and at that time the political parties had strong followings based on race - Guess who was in power in 1966?