JAMAICA
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Year Published: 1974
Format: 16mm
Description: 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).
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this is Jamaica [Music] it was never like this we have entertainment we're building convention size hotels be fine just what you'd wish to find right here in Jamaica and when Jamaica became independent we had a feeling of am what you call and togetherness or our own we have groups like Baron de accidentes probably wife and the best in entertainment The Rolling Stones came here because they had heard a lot of reggae music the cosmic jaga have been comment to Montego Bay and he heard it on the radio and he said let me come into the studios to get a sound especially a reggae sound with a sound which which which from reggae could sort of enhance his music or give it a little change or the twist and he came in with all his men and they spent six to eight weeks here recording they've come out with a new album called goat's head soup which the single Angie Isola here no 3 million there are other things that I carry on in Jamaica to stop any supported story dancing on the staff for the casualness of it that is not the feeling yes yes jamaica does offer lighting and the exotic package you've got to be adventurous and try them good evening folks welcome to the club rolling over in Jamaica we're going to have a vote tonight yeah silver legacy they're back at twelve o clock we have our big feature we have a laser to make upload show as well the cane is employed not to see this one a Jackson see it's okay we have sweet mustache salmonzilla plan to use a waste so till there's more [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay okay all right actually have all three qualities going it was an old fort when the owners came in the guns were still on the seafront they found cannonballs in the water we have done a lot of research and we find that there is very little we can dig up the most interesting aspect of it was that there is a cave running under the outside pool at the moment we believe that it was used smuggling in its time now some of you must have read about Sir Henry mother the one time pirate sir henry modern living just to Milo here [Music] three off one thinks of Jamaica as a land of sunshine and time region there's a lot of truth in that however is a lot more to Jamaica get out and see a bit of the countryside eat people [Music] nah [Music] [Music] [Music] in order to really get to normal country it is important that wanting to meet the people is important that you keep someone living in the country in jamaica tourist boards recognized as factor and a few years ago started amid people's program this program gives visitors a chance meet average interesting to make give them a chance give your home to eat them to live exactly like a jamaican live not just be sheltered in beautiful hotel room but you really go out in the countryside and really get a feel of Jamaica I verte you're talking to Jamaican banana and coconut here is like that there is no season for death and there is no season number nine is incoherent it's a continuously thing all year round every week when we call it four or five thousand seminara like this we have to send them all to the boat so how do we get them down from the gross margin is involved and over here this is Jamaica [Music] [Music] in Jamaica or mater is out of many one people a tourist won't have to attend a special place to meet Jamaican they can just have one on the street and culture of the BAM although the older Jamaica intend to a little bit shy and I'll tow it into a little bit shy also but I'm once one gets started and they get boost up you have to take a la conchita scrapping unbearably and at a reggae music you just heard I am definitely oven my name is your opinion come here at seven years ago as a guide i'm sam smith from alberta i am joe james jamaican artist right here in Rio bueno jamaica one of these on discovered acting for of the tourists in Jamaica is the Jamaican are so many talented TARDIS is in Jamaica and I think the doors should really go out to see some of the they have a varied types of work from sculpture painting you know and if one doesn't look for them you just won't find them came to Jamaica eight years ago and discovered the gemstone of Jamaica and decided to start a gem cutting factory they are slicing the stones with a diamond song the diamond saw has more than half a million little diamonds around the outer perimeter the surface of the stone should be flawless after they're cut and polished we then set them into gold and silver to make rings earrings cufflinks type text almost anything that you could set a gemstone into we do it here we also think our own fabric here in Jamaica there's a few screen printing outfit and you could have designed on anything from soup to come to linen stores are all around and here I would introduce challenge heavenward applies the beach cover-up which is machine washable and very easy to care under this she wears a locally produced Italy this is a dress designed by me and which we find most popular with visitors to Jamaica and here for a very formal evening I show you an evening gown yards and yards of chiffon shuttle skirts as you can see dissertation and very feminine this gown is ideal for that special evening for your holiday in the Sun Jamaica is in the tropics and II recognize that jackets and ties are impractical the casual shirt Jack's I was recognized at I of the day or evening five years ago the government of Jamaica in collaboration is Jamaica Tourist Board recognized the need for improved service in the hospitality industry as a result of this Jamaica hotel school came into existence in Jamaica it is possible to find just about any type of accommodation that you might dream up intimate villas small hotels and we've got hotels with well over 500 rooms at the same time price it's definitely not a deterrent in Jamaica a visitor coming to Jamaica means were too much about what they'll get to eat [Music] before dinner it is not sure that you take some drink worried about the kids I bring them along recently the Jamaica Tourist Board introduced what is now known as the nanny program this program provides trained help to take care of the children when you go for night fun [Music] you bout to burn it up light up when I was until you also big on fire notional like a liquid garage yeah buddy mineralogy you don't disown alongside you burning up fire there's mrs. you are no flicker one yeah buddy me no one will be you don't find you here I've seen this music go through different changes music that is indigenous to our island of Jamaica I which is far with comment a hit on international scheme which started to gain prominence just as about the same time that Jamaica got independence between accounts at all yeah tell me you wanna flip oh yeah we don't [Music] thank you could be a clear day you can be difficult electrical connectivity you get an extra burden to connect and learn to make a copy and epic and if you continue and continue cooking a community and comedian significant you like to come to local community college until a beautiful thing if you don't we make it the fingers can computable significantly better yet you can do it and you can continue communicating
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