Lima to Rio Holiday (1959)

Produced by the Dallas-based Jamieson Film Company for Braniff International Airways, this 1959 promotional film highlights the company’s routes to South America and its new fleet of Boeing 707-227 jetliners—known as the El Dorado Super Jets—used to get there. In the film, actress Dorothy Malone first flies to Peru, where she tours the capital city of Lima. Next, Malone travels to Brazil to meet up with her husband and fellow actor Jacques Bergerac. In Rio de Janeiro, the couple shops for jewelry, dines at a churrascaria, and climbs to the peak of the Corcovado mountain. Therein highlighting the benefits of Braniff travel agents, the film functions as much as a tourism film for Latin America as a promotional film for the airline.