https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/39a66e10-24eb-4878-b687-e2299f683fe2 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This 1974 color film from Global Communications Limited offers a loose travelogue look at Jamaica’s offerings for a burgeoning tourist industry, including beachgoing, scuba diving, dining, resort hotels, and a flaming limbo dance. Ska/Calypso/Reggae legend Byron Lee of the Dragonaires appears in interview footage and lends music to the soundtrack (TRT: 22:33). Opening tile, “Jamaica” over a river. Water rushing over a rocky hillside. Narration: “This is Jamaica” (0:07). A montage of beaches and women sunbathers in bathing suits. Reggae music plays over a woman dancing, a water skier, a woman shopping for hats at a market, a man using a machete to cut a tree, golf, a sign for “Swamp Safaris” and an alligator (0:37). Interviews in montage. A woman models a colorful dress. Urban hotels. A cow. Beachgoers (2:21). A panorama from a scenic overlook (3:13). Byron Lee speaks about Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones recording of “Goat’s Head Soup” in an interview (3:44). A swimmer and a stone dock. Inside a nightclub: Tourists, watermelon, a pot of rice (4:08). A floor show begins with a dancer jumping between moving sticks. The pace accelerates and a blonde volunteer from the audience joins in (5:01). Palm trees sway in the wind. Historic battlements of Port Charles in Port Royal (6:38). A scuba diver uses gloves to gather sand dollars and play with fish underwater (7:18). Young people fly kites on a beach to the tune of Byron Lee’s “Flying Machine.” A sign for “Ocho Rios Boonoonoonoos Kite Flying” (8:58). A sailboat, a swimming pool, a jet airliner. A Jamaican flag. A water wheel and a natural stream (9:30). A hollow carved figure. A waterfall. A man walking with oxen. A shipbuilder sawing wood for a handmade boat (10:14). An artisan woodcarver (11:18). Women tourists visit a fruit market. A woman works on embroidery at an open air market (11:38). A tractor takes a group on a “Plantation Tour” of the Brimmer Hall estate. Banana harvesting is demonstrated by a man with a pith helmet and a machete (12:07). A crossing guard directs traffic (12:40). A fire breathing performance. A mansion on a large estate. Swans on a pond. A couple on a river raft tour (13:07). A woman carries a basket of fruit atop her head (14:08). Artist Joe James of Rio Bueno chisels wood, forming a traditional figure. Sculpture and paintings by Jamaican artists. A sign for wood carvings (14:31). Sam Smith from Alberta speaks about his gem cutting factory. Polished precious stones and a variety of jewelry (15:20). Daphne Lobin, proprietor of a printed clothing store, “Temptation.” A model named Helen shows off a lace coverup and a locally made bikini, a floral evening gown (15:55). A representative of the Jamaica tourism industry speaks of a hotel school over a montage of hotels and beachfront resorts (17:10). A montage of dining options, including roast pig and pineapple. Tropical cocktails and sunbaked tourists on lounge chairs (17:58). A “nanny program” is introduced. A Jamaican woman builds sandcastles with tourist children (18:43). More footage of the nightclub floor show with a flaming limbo act (19:12). A young woman in a bikini walks away from the camera at a sandy beach (20:55). End credits: Director Randy Torno; Camera Don McMillan, Sound John MeGill; Editor Arden Rynew; Music by Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires (sp), Paul Zaza; Produced with the Assistance of the Jamaica Tourist Board; Air Transportation courtesy of Air Canada; Executive Producer Robert Baum; A Global Leisure Production. Global Communications Ltd. (21:07). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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