https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ad2f0573-2b23-4a07-bdcf-17b7c745dd16 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “Adventures in Guatemala and Yucatan” is a 1950s silent home movie-style travelogue, in color, shot by Joseph F. Temrowski. Temrowski ran a real estate firm and opened the Joseph F. Temrowski Automobiliana Museum in Michigan. In these films, a small group of American tourists sightsee a wonderland of flowers and rugged country, Lake Atitlan, Antigua, Chichicastenano, Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, and Havana, Cuba. 01:15 Flying over clouds and Havana, Cuba. Passengers disembark the Pan American World Airways DC-4 Clipper Union, then fly to Guatemala. 03:29 A welcome sign for La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City and a stone marker reading K11 R.N.No 1 C.F.D.R. 03:42 Vista view of the mountainous Guatemalan countryside. 03:52 Iglesia San Francisco at Antigua. The tourists drive a 1948 Dodge Deluxe. Random shots of bushes, flowers, and the ruins at Iglesia San Francisco 04:56 Handcrafted pottery workshop and Merced Colonial Cathedral built 1680. 05:33 A Mayan textile factory, hibiscus flowers, Hotel Aurora and its fountain. 06:57 Ox-drawn carts crowd a country road. Traveling unpaved country roads passing locals with heavy loads on their backs. Narrow village streets past colorful homes and pedestrians 08:12 In and around a courtyard, women admire hibiscus and lilies. At the Hotel Casa Contenta, indigenous people, el Quiché, bring products to market. 09:10 Lake Atitlan and San Pedro volcano. A boatload of tourists venture the lake and waterfalls. 10:07 Narrow streets of Antigua, low buildings, chapels, a procession of indigenous people travel along a dirt mountain road, some carry loads on their heads and backs, through narrow village streets past rows of low, tile-roof buildings. 11:23 Thursday Market Day at Iglesia Santo Tomas, Chichicastenango where indigenous peoples in colorful ‘trajes’ adorned with beads, sell crafts, food, and textiles. Churchgoers swing thuribles of incense. 12:54 Vendors and customers barter and fraternize. Many carrying on their heads baskets, pottery, or hats for sale. 16:10 Four men play the marimba, a xylophone-like musical instrument. A colorful Scarlet Macaw cleans its feathers. 16:33 An outdoor market sells hand woven goods. Various street scenes in a small village. People carry bundles of Paja Toquilla straw, satchels, baskets, babies. 18:52 Along cobblestone roads and rural dirt roads, passing indigenous people, past undulating land lined with walking trails. Indigenous children pose for pictures. 20:33 Palacio Nacional de la Cultura in Guatemala City, Central Park, Metropolitan Cathedral. A group of women in traditional dress carry baskets on their head. 21:31 Monument to Christopher Columbus in Central Park. The Temple of Minerva and the Hippodrome Stadium. Views of the city. Kids play soccer. 22:01 At the Church of Cerrito del Carmen. 22:25 Estadio Nacional Doroteo Guamuch Flores, earlier known as Estadio Mateo Flores, built in the 1940s. 22:45 The Torre del Reformador, a 71 meter tower in Guatemala City. Also present are art deco homes. 23:08 Outside and inside the Musio Nacional. 23:34 Street scenes showing a pharmacy and a movie theater advertising June Allyson and Dick Powell in “The Reformer and the Redhead” (1950) and a theater announcing Chang the “magician of magicians.” A truck carrying men speaking through a loud bullhorn is followed by a crowd. 24:24 The tour group boards a Pan American World Airways DC-4 followed by aerial shots of Central America’s landscape and waterways 24:40 They arrive at Merida, Mexico in Yucatan. The group motors along broad avenues and narrow side streets, past colorful pink buildings, along paved country roads past grass-roof huts and through desolate flatlands. 25:15 They enter the Chichen Itza archaeological site, a large pre-Columbian city. Grand Ball Court structures, the North Temple, Temple of Kukulcán (El Castillo), the surrounding area and the Yucatec Mayan people. 26:46 Colonnade at Temple of the Warriors and various grass-roof huts, flowers, the ancient Mayan observatory at Chichen Itza, the Nunnery, The Kukulcan pyramid and native women. 28:13 In Havana, Cuba. Rooftop views of the city plus drives through city streets past Paulina’s Bidet Fountain (sometimes called Luminous Fountain) ending up at Rancho Boyeros Airport. 29:52 END 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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