Film Record: Around South America

Still image from Around South America.

Date produced: 1957

Filmmaker(s):

H. Lee Hansen

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:51:00

Length:

1900 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

UC San Diego Library list of titled amateur films

Description:

Travelogue that visits tourist destinations across several countries in South America.

Resources:

Record of the film at ArchiveGrid.

This film is a part of the H. Lee Hansen Collection held by the UC San Diego Library.

Locations:

• Chile (Filming)
• Ecuador (Filming)
• Peru (Filming)
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Filming)

Subjects:

• Art and Recreation
• Indigenous peoples
• Nature
•      Geography
• South America
•      Manners and Customs
•           Country life
•      Transportation
•      Travel

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Feature

Tags:

Repository:

H. Lee Hansen Collection, UC San Diego Library

Viewing Notes:

"Tourists boarding and unboarding airplane, local landscapes and people, train, large city, city scenes, river, Ecuador, Peru, aerial shots, plane interiors, native costumes, lamas, mountain landscape and roads, ruins and tourists, market day, street vendors, religious procession, dancing, masks, exposition of blessed sacrament, Chile, army on parade, city traffic, harbor scenes, Brazil, snake exhibit, street cars,Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana, beach scenes, aerial gondola ride," via UC San Diego Library.

Video Link:

• via UC San Diego Library

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