https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ec47ae5-eaa6-4057-ab7b-d5cc40cc64d6 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film "Schley Ride to the West Indies" is the second part of a four-segment feature filmed by Wisconsin amateur filmmaker Norman Schley. An accountant by trade, Schley also founded a travel industry film company called Picturelogue. Like many of his other films, this one was intended to be screened in front of a live audience, while Schley read from a prepared script. So, you will note that it while the soundtrack contains a lot of music, no narration is heard. This portion focuses on Jamaica and the Bahamas. This segment begins in Montego Bay (:20) with a wide span of a golf course (:39). The Diamond Center offers accessories such as pearls and Buler watches (1:01) to the traveling pedestrian. After shopping, tourists enjoy sunbathing (1:22). Back in the downtown area, the Bank of Nova Scotia is spotted (2:28) as well as Barclay’s Bank (2:28). Tourists head to Sam Sharpe Square and peer at the center piece fountain (2:39). The film welcomes viewers to Ocho Rios (2:46). An advertisement for BWIA appears along the roadway (2:50). The vacationers take up lodging at the Plantation Inn; known today as the Sandals Royal Plantation Inn (2:52). Night rolls in at the resort (3:07) as a traditional Jamaican band plays for guests (3:07). A fire dance erupts on the floor (3:17). The film catches a view from the boat looking back towards a diminishing coast as tourists enjoy a motorized boat ride (4:33). A male tourist prepares himself for a snorkeling adventure (4:44). Footage shows the ocean floor as the man dives (5:00). A picturesque shot of the sunset (5:26) transitions the film to Nassau (5:37). A wing from a Pan Am passenger plane is captured through a passenger’s window in flight (5:42). The SS Yarmouth Castle sits docked in harbor (5:59) which sets this film back prior to 1965 as the steamship had been destroyed in a fire in that year. This accident later prompted new laws regarding safety at sea. The Nassau Harbor Lighthouse rises on the end of a small peninsula (6:04). Vacationers enjoy sunbathing along a narrow stretch of beach (6:15). A horse and buggy deliver tourists into the downtown area (6:23) and Parliament Square. A traffic cop guides cyclists (6:38). The Royal Bank of Canada appears at (7:13) as well as the Prince George Hotel (7:40) constructed in 1936. Jamaicans sell goods at an open-air market (8:01). Members of the Bahamas Branch British Red Cross Society sell raffle tickets to pedestrians (9:04). The stand for the American Women’s Club Raffle in Aide of the Red Cross follows (10:39). Other fair-goers enjoy a game of toss the ring for prizes (10:51). Vacationers take to a catamaran called the Tropic Bird for sight seeing and water play (11:30). The oldest church in the colony is the St. Matthews Church (12:05) and it’s cemetery is zoomed in on (12:11). Sir Henry Oakes statue appears (12:29). Oakes was an American born gold mine owner that moved to the Bahamas in the 1930’s. Blue Vista Luxury Apartments follow under construction (12:43) on Cable Beach (12:51). The film takes a brief tour at more rural areas (14:57) and heads to another resort on the island of Nassau (15:10). A cannon peaks over the decrepit walls of Fort Montague (15:56). This fort was constructed by Peter Henry Bruce in 1741. The Fort Montague Beach Hotel follows (16:26). A Jamaican band entertains guests (18:26). Tourists enjoy refreshments pool side (19:33) as one guest shows off her sketch book (20:40). Two women enjoy a game of shuffleboard (20:49). Some of the decadent meals enjoyed during the festivities are zoomed in on (21:47). The film wraps up with sped up footage of a sunset (23:01) as well as young boys attempting to climb Fort Montague’s walls (23:27). To continue to the fourth and final segment: https://youtu.be/DXNzIjE5g1w Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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