https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b997cde8-eb88-4f82-842a-2207f678d56e Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shot surreptitiously by a U.S. Navy sailor at or near the Gold & Silver Bar, this 1950s silent home movie presents a rare look at pre-revolutionary Havana's red light district. This is the Cuba of dance halls, slummy bars and working girls, where booze flowed for sailors on leave, and dollars quickly changed hands in exchange for intimate favors and tourist trinkets sold by street urchins. Although the material is frustratingly hard to assess due to its poor exposure and sloppy camera work, this film nevertheless presents a fascinating glance back at the Bautista era. 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. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOtvefOitps Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b997cde8-eb88-4f82-842a-2207f678d56e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.