https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/07cec0e0-7a4d-46a6-be20-c4b0efc2c42d Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black & white educational film is about a trip to Africa and South America by ship - and its in French. This is circa 1939/1940. Opening titles: Une Production et Realisation de Robert Mariaud - Le Mervelleux Voyage aka The Wonderful Journey (:08-:45). A hand turns a globe. Newspaper reads: "Cecile Sorel." Pictures of palm trees and horse riding gauchos in Argentina. The ad reads as: "A film will be made on this trip" when translated. A tailor dresses a woman. She parades around in various outfits. A train quickly goes down the rails. Close on the wheels and the track (:46-2:10). Cranes oversee the dock at Marseille. An ocean liner the SS Florida awaits. Stevedores load the SS Florida. Boxes are hoisted onto it. People enter the ship. A woman enters wearing a stylish hat. Smoke billows from the ship's smokestack. The ship gets ready to set sail and then starts to leave port. The famed Marseille Transporter Bridge starts to close. Birds fly in the sky overhead (2:11-3:48). Clouds fill the sky. The ship sails, crewmen mill about. A man surveys the sea. An animated map shows Spain. As waves rush by, the ship sails onward. People look over the side of the deck. Two men lounge and talk near women. Some women do flips, two men practice circus like maneuvers with another woman. A man does a handstand. A woman stretches on deck. Sun starts to set at sea (3:49-5:36). The ship sails onward. People talk on deck, dressed well in suits. The Captain in his office reviews paperwork. Smoke billows from the smokestacks. A man is ill in bed. An animated of Africa. A tiny boat sails nearby. People on the deck of the ship. People swim in a pool. People disembark the ship. A visit to Africa. Africans walk around. An African marketplace at Dakar, capitol of Senegal. Back at sea (5:37-8:02). Rough waves as the ship sails on. A book reads: Bapteme de la Ligne aka Baptism of the Line. People walk on deck. People celebrate crossing the Equator and are baptized with water, they dance and are joyous. Smoke billows from the stacks into the sky (8:03-9:02). Waves at sea. A woman relaxes on deck. Clouds. Palm trees and a beautiful island. A picturesque island. Sun through the trees (9:03-10:04). A small tugboat is alongside the ship at it reaches Buenos Aires in South America. People look over the side. The ship is docking. The woman leaves the ship. A close on a map. Numerous aerial shots of a city. A bus rides down a street as people walk by. Statue of people pulling a rock. People are excavating. A building is being built. Scaffolding surrounds it. Statue of a man riding a horse. Palm trees. Exterior of an apartment building. People dine and dance in a nice hall (10:05-13:24). Aerial shot of at dusk. Sign for the La Vadascongada as a horse/buggy walks by. The buggy continues onward. A mailman delivers milk. Milk left at doorsteps. Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Argentina, El Salvador on a map. The Rio De La Plata. Boats sail. A group of people sail slowly in a small craft. Lots of boats in a small area (13:25-14:44). A horse statue in Buneos Aires, Argentina. Flags fly. People gather at a horse racing track, shots of the track and the people. The horses line up and then start to run. Plane called the 'Halcon' aka the Hawk. The horse race is in full swing, down the stretch the horses come. Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Argentina, El Salvador on a map. An Air France Potez 62 passenger plane marked HALCON, readies itself on the runway. This plane was part of Golden Clipper service across the Atlantic, and was designed by Henry Potez in 1934. The shadow of the plane races down a runway. Aerial shots of the countryside and the plane's shadow on the ground below. Parts of the plane in the air. The plane is coming in for a landing (14:45-17:20). Palm trees outside of a house. A man rides a horse and rounds up cattle. Men start to round up and herd the cattle. An 'auction' flag flies. The herd is rounded up. Cattle is rounded up and placed inside its fences. Meat is cooked at the campfire (17:21-19:17). Map of South America shows Bolivia, Argentina, El Salvador. The Andes are pointed out on the map on the borders of Chile. Flying over the Andes Mountains, snowcapped mountains. Aerial shots of the Andes. The propeller of the plane as it flies (19:18-20:57). Back on the ship, the ship sails off. People look over the deck. A woman wears a cape on deck. A man hangs on the side of the ship and goes over to a smaller boat nearby. Water flows on the sea (20:58-21:36). End credits (21:37-21:47). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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