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Haiti in the 1950's. Archive film 99431

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Channel: HuntleyFilmArchives · 2017 · Education

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Missionaries Francais aux Antilles or French Missionaries in the Caribbean 1950's
Port-au-Prince in Haiti.  Several shots of students and buildings at the University of Haiti.  Students entering a building marked 'Anatomie'.  Anatomy.
L'Observatoire du Seminaire-College Saint Martiale.  Observatory.  View of missionary brother taking notes beside a wind-gauge; another brother looking through a telescope.  A brother descends the circular staircase from the top of the observatory.  Several shots of brothers sitting at desks and taking notes. One brother checks readings of a number of scientific instruments (probably barometric pressure and moisture content of air).
Archbishop of Haiti greeting (handshakes) dignitaries visiting Haiti.
A group of adolescent boys, accompanied by a missionary priest, walks through a plantation in Haiti.  The boys inspect a man-made water channel.  A woman leads a donkey loaded with materials on its back down a road.  View of a sugar-cane field; camera pans across a field, to a road and stone wall.  In the countryside, men walk alongside oxen pulling a loaded cart.  Shot of a plantation.  A bell, suspended outside, near the plantation fields.  Close-up of bell, with words cast on its exterior.  A (non-functioning) fountain in a field.  A priest with Haitian boys in the countryside.  Women walking in the rugged countryside, bundles on their heads.  Shots of 2 former colonial French forts in Haiti.  Shots of cannons and cannonballs preserved from colonial times, in a field.  A cemetery, showing the tomb of a former colonial governor of Haiti.  The Capetian Hospital in Haiti.  Shot of nursing sisters and a man walking in the hospital.  5 shots of churches in Haiti.  2 shots of the Isle de la Tortue, its coastline as viewed from an airplane.  Panning shot of rugged, mountainous Haitian landscape.
Panning shot of a town in Haiti, ending with a view of people outside of a church.  Lines of Haitians walking through a town.  Women and children walking in a religious procession, behind a banner, along a street and into a church in Haiti.

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