- Title: F-A2907
- Summary: I AM AN AMERICANO: PUERTO RICO FIGHTS FOR INDEPENDENCE.
- Description:00:24:46 - MAN DIRECTS PAN AM PROP PLANE TO TAXI. 00:24:57 - PUERTO RICANS COME DOWN STEPS OF PASSENGER AIRPLANE AT AIRPORT 00:25:05 - PASSENGERS IN A CROWDED AIRPORT TERMINAL. 00:25:38 - EXTERIOR TRUMAN'S HOME IN WASHINGTON DC 00:25:43 - POLICEMAN TRYING TO KEEP BACK REPORTERS AFTER NOVEMBER 1950 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMAN 00:25:52 - PHOTOS OF DEAD BODIES. 00:25:54 - POLICEMAN STOPS MEN FROM WALKING TOWARDS TRUMAN'S HOME 00:26:29 - GUARD STANDS NEAR GUARD BOOTH OUTSIDE TRUMAN'S HOUSE 00:26:33 - INJURED MEN LYING ON STREETS OF PUERTO RICO. 00:26:45 - DEAD MEN LAYING ON GRASS AFTER SHOOT-OUT IN PUERTO RICAN CITY 00:26:51 - GUNSHOT HOLES IN CAR WINDSHIELD. 00:26:54 - RIFLE & AMMUNITION IN TRUNK OF CAR 00:27:27 - CROWDS OF YOUNG MEN IN CIVIL WAR DEMONSTRATIONS, RALLY IN PUERTO RICO. 00:27:40 - FDR & CHURCHILL MEETING ON BOAT. THE ATLANTIC CHARTER 00:28:49 - SHORELINE, WAVES OF PUERTO RICO BEACH 00:28:58 - FOGGY FOREST. 00:29:10 - RAIN IN JUNGLE. 00:29:14 - WATER FLOWS DOWN ROCKS OF MOUNTAINSIDE. WATERFALL 00:29:17 - STATUES OF SPANISH EXPLORERS 00:29:22 - OLD SPANISH RUINS, RUSTY CANNONS 00:29:27 - POV THROUGH TROPICAL RAIN FOREST 00:29:43 - OLD SPANISH RAMPARTS LOOK OUT OVER THE WATER. WATCHTOWER IN FORTRESS. 00:30:11 - 1898 FOOTAGE FROM THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR OF OFFICIAL PARADE OF AMERICAN ROUGH RIDERS? 00:30:26 - OFFICALS CEREMONY AS PUERTO RICO BECOMES POSSESSION OF UNITED STATES 00:30:56 - BOY RUNS AFTER TRUCK FILLED WITH CROPS THROUGH TOWN 00:31:04 - CU BOY CHEWING SUGAR CANE STICK 00:31:10 - HIGH ANGLE SAN JUAN CITY. 00:31:14 - PEOPLE IN POORER PART OF CITY BY STREET VENDOR'S CART 00:31:15 - MODERN STORE IN DECO STYLE. 00:31:18 - CARS DRIVING THROUGH INTERSECTION 00:31:20 - SLUMS, SHACK HOMES. GARBAGE IN PUDDLES OF WATER 00:31:38 - INTERIOR OF HOME AS FAMILY LIVES IN POVERTY. 00:31:46 - WOMAN CARRYING LAUNDRY BASKET THROUGH ALLEY OF SHACKS 00:31:50 - LAUNDRY HANGING ON LINE. 00:32:16 - FARM FIELDS 00:32:20 - HARVESTING CROPS. 00:32:23 - HISPANIC MEN. FARMERS & FARM WORKERS 00:32:32 - FARM FAMILY USING PRIMITIVE FARMING METHODS TO PROCESS WHEAT 00:32:44 - WORKERS HARVESTING CROPS 00:33:10 - CROWD OF MEN LISTENING OUTSIDE IN TOWN SQUARE 00:33:16 - PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, ADVOCATE OF PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE THROUGH VIOLENT REVOLUTION. 00:33:22 - TWO DEAD MEN ON STREET OF CITY 00:33:27 - MEN STAND AROUND INJURED MAN LYING ON ROAD 00:34:03 - OXEN PULL WAGON FULL OF STICKS UP HILL IN FIELD 00:34:10 - RICH MODERN PLANTATION HOME OF INDUSTRIALIST LUIS PERES? 00:34:19 - PERES IN BOW TIE ADDRESS CAMERA 00:35:09 - PAN ALONG RIVER OF POOR HOMES ON PYLONS. CHILDREN STAND ON DOCK 00:36:00 - WAR TIME INDUSTRY: MAKING TANKS & GUNS IN FACTORY. 00:36:08 - PAN DOWN SEMI-CLOUDY SKY 00:36:11 - FLOCK OF VULTURES ON GROUND 00:36:16 - VULTURES FLYING IN SKY 00:36:19 - PERISCOPE STICKS OUT OF WATER. 00:36:21 - GERMAN SUBMARINE SURFACES 00:36:26 - POV SUB'S BOW AS IT TRAVELS THROUGH WATER 00:36:28 - GERMAN SEAMAN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS 00:36:29 - BINOCULAR VIEW OF SHIPS ON WATER 00:36:30 - VIEW OF DECK GUN AS WATER COVERS IT AS SUBMARINE SUBMERGES 00:36:32 - GERMAN U-BOAT INTERIOR. SEAMAN ADJUST GUNS, LOOK THROUGH PERISCOPE 00:36:35 - VIEW OF SHIP AS SEEN THROUGH PERISCOPE VIEWER 00:36:36 - THREE SHIPS IN WATER EXPLODE AS SAME TIME 00:36:39 - SMALL PUERTO RICAN BOAT SINKS AFTER BEING HIT 00:36:55 - MONTAGE UNDERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN PUERTO RICO LIVING IN SLUMS 00:37:37 - UPSET MAN LEANS DOWN TOWARDS BLOODY BODY IN STREET. 00:37:43 - LITTLE BOY LOOKS AT DEAD BODY IN THE STREET. 00:37:48 - PEOPLE LINE STREET AS THEY LOOK DOWN AT GRUESOME SCENE OF BLOODY DEAD MAN 00:38:49 - CU POOR HISPANIC MAN STARRING INTO SPACE 00:38:54 - CU SLEEPING BABY IN HAMMOCK. 00:39:01 - AERIAL VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY CIRCA 1940s. 00:39:05 - TRAVELERS STAND ON SIDE OF FENCED AREA WAITING FOR THEIR LUGGAGE 00:39:07 - CU HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS. 00:39:11 - CLIPPER PLANE ARRIVAL BOARD 00:39:12 - PUERTO RICANS GETTING OFF AIRPLANE 00:39:14 - NICELY DRESSED MAN IN BOWTIE GIVING HIS INFORMATION TO OFFICAL 00:39:17 - GHETTOS OF NEW YORK. LAUNDRY HANGS ON LINE BETWEEN BUILDINGS 00:39:23 - CROWDED SIDEWALK IN SPANISH HARLEM. 00:39:25 - SIGN PAINTED ON SIDE OF BUILDING ADVERTISING CHEAP MODERN APARTMENTS 00:39:34 - CU DOOR TO APARTMENT OPENS TO REVEAL POOR LIVING CONDITIONS. 00:39:37 - CROWDED ROOM FILLED WITH CHILDREN 00:39:40 - SLUM KITCHEN WITH PEELING PAINT 00:39:44 - CU CEILING WITH PEPSI COLA METAL TIN PATCHING ROOF 00:39:49 - CROWDED APARTMENT, BEDS IN HALLWAY 00:39:55 - CU LITTLE GIRL WITH PACIFIER. 00:40:07 - BUGS CRAWL ON WALL. 00:40:13 - CROWDED SIDEWALKS OF SPANISH HARLEM 00:40:16 - YOUNG HISPANIC BOYS IN STREET CHOOSE UP FOR STICK BALL BY PLACING HAND OVER HAND. 00:40:39 - TRUMAN WALKS DOWN STEPS OF MILITARY PLANE, PAST SALUTING SAILORS & SHAKES HANDS WITH FIRST GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO, JESUS PINERO 00:40:51 - TRUMAN WAVES AS HE WALKS PAST CROWD OF APPLAUDING PUERTO RICANS 00:41:02 - TRUMAN STANDS RAMPARTS OF OLD FORTRESS LOOKING DOWN INTO WATER WITH MILITARY OFFICERS 00:41:16 - TRUMAN WALKING DOWN RAMP AT FORTRESS, PHOTO OP 00:41:22 - TRUMAN HOLDS UP HAT AS HE POSES ON DECK OF FERRY WHILE VISTING PUERTO RICO 00:41:26 - LUIS MUNOZ MARIN HUGGING OTHERS BEFORE HE MAKES SPEECH AFTER BEING ELECTED GOVERNOR IN 1949 00:41:31 - CROWD OF PUERTO RICANS APPLAUDING AT BEACH 00:41:32 - CU MUNOZ MARIN & WIFE 00:41:35 - PAN FROM OFFICALS TO MILITARY PARADE AT INAUGURATION 00:41:41 - LUIS MUNOZ MARIN TALKS ABOUT BROADINING THE ECONOMY. OPERATION BOOTSTRAP. 00:42:19 - CU SIGNS IN ENGLISH & SPANISH EACH READ: "STOP", "LOOK", "LISTEN" 00:42:24 - CU MUNOZ MARIN TALKING IN MEETING 00:42:32 - CU FARM WORKERS CUTTING DOWN STALKS. 00:42:46 - LOADING SACKS ONTO STEAMSHIP. 00:42:52 - FILLING BURLAP SACKS IN FACTORY. 00:42:54 - PUERTO RICAN INDUSTRY. PROCESSING SUGAR CANE OR PULP IN FACTORY. 00:43:02 - PAN PAST LOW COST HOUSING BUILT. PILES OF LUMBER 00:43:06 - AERIAL NEW AIRPORT RUNWAYS 00:43:09 - WORKERS BUILDING RAILROAD AS PUBLIC BUS DRIVES PAST 00:43:11 - DAM. 00:43:15 - NEW HOTEL AERIAL TO ATTRACT TOURISTS. 00:43:23 - PLAYING SHUFFLEBOARD AT RESORT. 00:43:25 - AERIAL STRANGELY-SHAPED POOL 00:43:27 - DIVING INTO RESORT POOL 00:43:30 - NIGHTTIME WATER SKIING AS SKIIERS HOLD FLARES 00:43:39 - NIGHTCLUB SHOW PRODUCTION NUMBER WITH DANCERS 00:43:47 - ROMANTIC BEACH SCENE AS SILHOUETTE OF COUPLE ON BEACH AT SUNSET TOAST CHAMPAGNE GLASSES 00:43:50 - WORKERS HARVESTING FIELD WITH FACTORY SMOKESTACKS IN BGKD 00:44:08 - WORKERS ON FARM 00:44:12 - CU MEN WAITING TO FIND OUT IF THEY WOULD BE PICKED FOR LAND LOTTERY. (COULE BE USED AS WAITING FOR WORK) 00:44:22 - CU HAND PICKING PIECE OF PAPER OUT OF STRAW HAT 00:44:23 - CU HANDS UNFOLD PIECES OF PAPER 00:44:29 - MONTAGE MEN WORKING THEIR OWN SMALL PIECE OF LAND. SMALL HOUSES 00:46:15 - POLICE & ARMY CONTROLLING CROWDS IN STREETS OF PUERTO RICO AFTER COMMONWEALTH SITUATION SIGNED 00:46:24 - MEN TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE WITH BILLY CLUBS & RIFLES AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON MUNOZ MARIN. ARMED UPRISING PROTESTING U.S. REFERENDUM. CROWDS OF PEOPLE STAND AROUND, RIOTS 00:46:39 - DEAD MAN ON STREET 00:46:42 - CU LOGO OF PAN TIERRA-LIBERTAD 00:46:44 - PUERTO RICANS GO TO POLLS TO VOTE. 00:47:14 - PUTTING BALLOT INTO BALLOT BOX 00:47:24 - PUERTO RICAN FORTRESS LOOKING OUT OVER WATER 00:47:34 - MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS. PUERTO RICO COUNTRYSIDE 00:47:40 - FIELDS ON SIDE OF HILL 00:47:46 - CU CUTTING DOWN SUGAR CANE STALKS 00:47:49 - CU MEN WITH MACHETES. 00:47:54 - TRAIN FILLED WITH SUGAR CANE SLOWLY TRAVELS ON TRACKS 00:47:59 - DUMPING SUGAR CANE IN BIN IN FACTORY. 00:48:02 - SUGAR CANE PROCESSED IN FACTORY 00:48:07 - LUIS MUNOZ MARIN 00:48:11 - FACTORY MANUFACTURING DISHES. 00:48:17 - SPINNING SPOOLS OF THREAD IN TEXTILE FACTORY 00:48:20 - MODERN RESORT OF CARIBE HILTON IN SAN JUAN. 00:48:21 - MEN LOOK AT BLUEPRINTS OUTSIDE HOTEL. 00:48:22 - CU MULTIPLE BALCONIES OF RESORT 00:48:24 - MANY DIFFERENT FACTORIES. GLASSES BOTTLES BEING FILLED 00:48:27 - PUERTO RICO MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. 00:48:33 - WOOD FURNITURE FACTORY 00:48:39 - AMERICAN FLAG BEING RAISED ON ROOF FLAGPOLE 00:48:49 - AMERICAN FLAG BLOWS IN THE WINDOW. 00:49:07 - CU PUERTO RICAN FLAG RAISED TO COVER UP AMERICAN FLAG
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1898
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: F-A2907