A tour of the city of Havana, Cuba in the 1930s filmed by Andre de la Varre. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
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@EricandSylvannaMeade16 жыл бұрын
Que hermosa ciudad. Soy argentina. No sabia que Cuba era tan hermosa. Pero en realidad, no me sorprende para nada. Vivo en Los Angeles y los cubanos que conozco son un reflejo de la hermosa ciudad. Gente fina, culta que encajan perfectamente con una ciudad asi. Deseo de corazon que algun dia Cuba vuelva a ser lo que fue.
@JorgeRodriguez-il6bv7 жыл бұрын
No reason for arguments. Architecture speaks for itself!!!!!
@Havanasleo14 жыл бұрын
@Fluor66 Thank you. The city became even better, always in that european stile, until the plague arrived in 1959.
@flinx6493 жыл бұрын
Watching this in July of 2021... I'm an American and so wish that the Cuban people will take back their country and restore it to its earlier days...What a beautiful place and i say thank you to the wonderful Cuban people that have contributed so much to the American culture.
@Gesus11116 күн бұрын
And the USA ruined it
@barnabyrt10122 жыл бұрын
Images speak louder than words! Gracias por compartir estos recuerdos. La gente está tan ignorante sobre lo que fue Cuba. 🇨🇺❤
@aos5014 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this, now i know the Cuba my Grandfather is always talking about!
@lucasbishop84372 жыл бұрын
Your grandfather was lucky he got to see this Cuba before it all went up in smoke
Espectacular! el Desarrollo de Cuba en los anios 30' la verdad que era la ciudad latinoamericana mas desarrollada de la epoca!! Me facina mucho la verdad
@armandoruiz438511 жыл бұрын
La radio en Cuba comienza transmisiones en 1922. En 1928 Cuba tenía ya 61 EMISORAS DE RADIO, 43 de ellas en la Habana, ocupando el CUARTO LUGAR DEL MUNDO, superada solamente por E.U., Canadá y la Unión Soviética. Fue Cuba, la PRIMERA EN EL MUNDO en número de emisoras por número de habitantes y extensión territorial. En 1959 contaba con 161 estaciones de radio. (Publicado en: The Leage of Nations Yearbook, hoy, The United Nations) Informes sobre el crecimiento de las naciones.
@kokimbambe15 жыл бұрын
Una joya este documental. Me hace recordar todas las cosas de las que me hablaba mi abuela con añoranza. Una Habana que pocos conocimos. Bella mi Habana!
@margaritaortega97197 жыл бұрын
mirando películas de que linda estaba mi país
@TheAlfonso5911 жыл бұрын
Viendo esas imagenes de la Cuba pujante explendorosa jovial llena de vida que invitaba a soñar y ver la realidad actual,donde abunda la sosobra la insertidumbre el pesimismo la verdad que dan ganas de llorar.
@ntnt196510 жыл бұрын
En 1930 habia mas trafico que ahora que pena eso dice mucho del sistema actual. Mas autos circulando que en 2014, todo bien cuidado y pintado, las personas vestidas con trajes que comparado ahora todo es un desastre
@alberbraz79793 жыл бұрын
Muchacho,lo caminho de lá democracia eres lo haiti ou una invasione estadunidense
@AG-vi2cu2 жыл бұрын
Ahora todo lo que se ve es destrucción miseria, mugre y tristeza.
@TheGuidongo13 жыл бұрын
Nací en 1935, no viví ese año 1930, pero veo a mis compatriotas con cuello y corbata, sombrero y las mujeres bien vestidas, todo parece indicar que vivian mejor que los de ahora. Es decir seguro estoy que hemos envolucionado bastante. Basta ver los video de la Habana Vieja actual y compararla con la de antes.
@aildoux10 жыл бұрын
Great historic film. Thanks for posting.
@JDB21314 жыл бұрын
Great video - thanks for sharing!
@starwarsrebel200615 жыл бұрын
I was in Varadero, Cuba for 2 weeks in April. I also visited Havana while I was there. Beautiful country with the most amazing beaches I've ever seen. Had a great time. I uploaded some videos of my vacation on KZfaq.
@Bigband7811 жыл бұрын
Thanks,very interesting to see the Cuba of old.
@mn633482111 жыл бұрын
Necesitamos el video en espanol por favor. Gracias
@nikosz6614 жыл бұрын
Fantastic ! Thanks for posting!
@ricardo36412 жыл бұрын
Me hace recordar a Lima en sus mejores tiempos...
@rosadelamanecer110 жыл бұрын
Esto es como un viaje el una nave del PASADO
@mmimtc4 жыл бұрын
thanks for this video!
@Ben123814 жыл бұрын
You know I went to film school down there in florida and I fell in love with the cuban population. Never have I met a more passionate people especially the cigar owners that are from Miami. As far as moving there i'm all for it and for having great neighbors.
@mayito71410 жыл бұрын
Wow, I just saw some of these places and the roads have pot holes you can fall into and pieces of cement cover the floors of these buildings as they have fallen off the walls & ceilings...How sad, they have no money for cement & paint.....
@mariterimedina30964 жыл бұрын
Mack Lack not only for cement and paint, but even for food. From being one of the richest country of the Antilles, and even South America, to a 3rd world country. That’s the “CHANGES” Communism bring everywhere it is practice.
@AlejandroInAustin13 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!
@Diana-yn2hoАй бұрын
Conocí una señora Mexicana que visitó Cuba en la década de los cuarentas. Me acuerdo que me dijo que lo paso muy contenta en la Habana; la gente muy amable y disfruto su viaje. Preciosa arquitectura clásica.
@lacujeb14 жыл бұрын
Muy bueno este video ,nunca habia visto a la habana asi, tan limpia ,las calles sin huecos, todo ordenado ,las personas bien bestidas ,todos los hombres con trajes,pero nada a quedado de esa habana tan bella,ese rejimen la tiene destruida ,o sino comparen ustedes mismo.
@Havanasleo14 жыл бұрын
"Donde hay muchos hombres sin decoro hay hombres que llevan en si el decoro de muchos" José Marti. Descanse en paz Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
@smplfi9859 Жыл бұрын
I looked up this quote, and it seems to have been bastardized as warning in favor of communism. rather than a warning against despot rule.
@ivonotei12 жыл бұрын
I wish i lived in Cuba at that time....how beautiful
@schoft14 жыл бұрын
great video, thanks
@commiessuckjaja12 жыл бұрын
Here's a UNESCO report on Cuba circa 1957: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class," it starts. "Cuban workers are more unionized". The average wage for an 8-hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent. 44 per cent of Cubans are covered by social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S."
@oswald23514 жыл бұрын
Las imágenes evidencian un nivel de vida y elegancia superior al actual; la época de mis bisabuelos Demetrio Foyo del Valle y Teresa Cuétara Salas, cuyos restos reposan en el conocido cementerio Colón de la Habana que se ha podido ver en el reportaje. Confío que algún día se recupere el bienestar perdido.
@henrypollack14 жыл бұрын
Thank you, as a Cuban, thank you for saying it like it is!
@cubaninla14 жыл бұрын
42trombone Thanks for your words of support for our people. God bless you!
@otto366313 жыл бұрын
@travelfilmarchive thank you for this - free people need this reminder
@ryuism65615 жыл бұрын
Make Cuba Great Again #MCGA
@zellagro14 жыл бұрын
Ver una Habana asi nos enorgullece como cubanos ¡qué triste habernos dejado perderla por haber sido víctimas de la Gran Estafa! Ojalá este video haga reflexionar a quienes están ciegos aún con promesas de los nuevos "Fidel Castro" de Amèrica Latina.., Quien ve esta imagen prerrevolucionaria y visita hoy La Habana no puede comprender lo que pasó en estos últimos 50 años ... los ojos se secan de tanto llorar. Por esas calles caminaron vestidos de trajes elegantes nuestros abuelos.
@funguy797914 жыл бұрын
thanks for the compliment. Well said.
@mkrulz7714 жыл бұрын
i don't wanna sound ignorant but im from puerto rico and i think that us and cubans are so much alike, maybe thats why i get along with them so well.
@ocabezon12 жыл бұрын
Querid@s cuban@s: Feliz Año 2012 y NO olvidéis nunca que, pase lo que pase en el futuro, lo mejor que ha tenido, tiene y tendrá Cuba es SU GENTE: un pueblo envidiable y digno del respeto y la admiración del resto del mundo. Un abrazo.
@Manuelvazquez-tf6oz9 жыл бұрын
Este DIABLO nos destrozo la vida
@dimitrieke313 жыл бұрын
@manuel1964ism how many times a year you visit Cuba?
@henrypollack14 жыл бұрын
Right ON!!! I couldn't have said it better. Viva Cuba Libre!!!
@ichlugner10 жыл бұрын
Great documentary! It's almost unbelievable that Havana was such a sophisticated city back then! But one thing I woukd like to point out, that whether it's because of tourist influx or whatever, the grandeur of Havana has been almost restored. It's pretty much the same now from historical point of view. But I admit that still there are many parts of the city that require attention.
@deutsch2k510 жыл бұрын
Could be such a great place. Tourism, plantations, exports. But, greatness was denied. Too bad.
@deutsch2k510 жыл бұрын
Fidel...what a great man, eh? These people in the video look so desperate and sad, unlike today. (sarcasm)
@boucoupthick50413 жыл бұрын
Very informative. Cuba seems beautiful. I wish to travel there one day but because I am American, it's very difficult to do so.
@bobcheckingin14 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, surprised by the quality of this vintage film.
@henrypollack14 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind comments about Cuba before the revolution. It is rare that anti-Castro Cubans get such nice and thoughtfull support as yours. Sometimes, we feel alone in this, thanks for showing us we are not completely alone!
@abelraymond20128 жыл бұрын
esto video lo converti y algun listo lo colgo, me meti en un lio pero al carajo, hay que verlo
@cubaninla14 жыл бұрын
henrypollack From one Cuban to another. YOU'RE WELCOME!!! Ya me tiene boracha este delirante con tantas anormalidades que dice. BTW, Love your video of Cuba.
@arcelioba11 жыл бұрын
Se ve claramente que La Habana de los 30 estaba habitada por blancos, digo, si la comparamos con la habana del siglo XXI donde se ve obviamente un mestizaje más marcado. La ciudad se veía en muy buenas condiciones comparada con la de hoy día.
@ernestomontoto31284 жыл бұрын
arcelio ballesteros por este tipo de racismo los cubanos terminamos con Castro.
@garciadelacadena3 жыл бұрын
Son hispanos.
@juanpablomontoyavega531010 ай бұрын
Que tristeza, hoy en día, parece que por Cuba paso un tornado y lo arrazo todo.
@seliva1111 жыл бұрын
QUE BELLA ERA CUBA Y QUE ADELANTADA ESTABA, LA HAN ATRASADO 3 SIGLOS
@Havanasleo14 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@mariosantamaria357910 жыл бұрын
nos jodimos en otras palabras nos toco bailar con la mas fea y los que no lo vean de esa forma que elegua les ayude.
@RAINBOWLIZY33313 жыл бұрын
Wow, me quede con la boca abierta cuando vi este video, pues no tiene nada que envidiarle a la Costa Azul (Côte d'Azur), en el sureste frances también conocido como la Riviera francesa, My tierra, was truly more AMAZING, than I ever imagined. Wish I've been in that era, before, Fidel came to destroy it!
@dearmalika14 жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic video! Great work! Thanks so much for sharing this!
@VIVIANAACACIA11 жыл бұрын
totalmente con el Sr Oscar Rodriguez.Muy Buena respuesta Sr.
@ivonotei10 жыл бұрын
Cuba era, como se decia en esos tiempos, UNA TACITA DE ORO, entonces todo el que tenia medios, iba a Cuba a iniciar su negocio, cosa que daba trabajo a muchisima gente, y asi ocurria con muchas familias cubanas pudientes, que tambien tenian sus negocios. Eran fabricas, grandes monopolios, industrias de todo tipo, en fin, todo tipo de negocios que hacian de la vida del cubano de entonces, algo agradable, tenian trabajo, tiendas, bodegas y almacenes repletos de todo tipo de mercancias, lo mismo ropa, que tela, articulos domesticos, en fin, de todo. Habia pobreza, por supuesto, como en todos los paises del mundo, litigios politicos, gobiernos de quita y pon, golpes de estado, y gente rebelde que protestaba, quemaba guaguas, hacia marchas, etc. COMO EN TODOS LADOS DEL PLANETA. Llego la desgracia desde la Sierra Maestra a formar el caos con la promesa de que todo seria para el pueblo, hubo intervenciones, nacionalizaciones, gente sin trabajo, LOS GRANDES CAPITALISTAS SE FUERON DEL PAIS Y AQUELLO FUE LO MAS HORRIBLE QUE PUDO SUCEDER JAMAS. EL ESTADO, PROMETIENDO VILLAS Y CASTILLAS, ENGAÑO Y TRAICIONO AL PUEBLO QUE LO ACLAMO. y aquellos negocios, al pasar al Estado, con interventores que llegaron a todo lo nacionalizado e intervenido a LLEVARSE TODO LO QUE PODIAN, pero resulto que fue peor el remedio que la enfermedad. Conclusion: Que es Cuba en ese sentido hoy en dia? TODO VOLVIO A LA EDAD DE PIEDRA....
@ayameyxii88875 жыл бұрын
It make me so SAD, that the country I was born in was so BEAUTIFUL!! I LOVE MY CUBA!!!😤
@gloria305vacaciones11 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Beutiful!!
@marcokull11 жыл бұрын
thank you
@patrickmccarron505910 жыл бұрын
Cuba was such a nice place before Castro.
@lasuperchica5910 жыл бұрын
For some, yes. Certainly the tourists that used it as their playground and the richer white Cubans and a few, select others. Most of the black population was impoverished. Or do you think Castro won because the populace was so happy and faithful to the existing regime under Batista, aka. El Carnicero (The Butcher)? Is Cuba right today? Nope. Lots of problems. But it was no panacea before Castro either. Nothing is ever that simple.
@patrickmccarron505910 жыл бұрын
*****, Cuba is a disaster zone. Socialism is a system of failure and robs people of their freedom, property, and creativity. It is a horrible system to be forced to live under. Communist Germany was held in by a wall. Communist Cuba is held in by shark infested Atlantic Ocean. Escape is not easy, especially now that America has a policy of returning Cubans attempting to escape and caught at sea. Don't see any Americans trying to escape to Cuba, not even the poor in Haiti have any desire to escape to Cuba. It is a miserable place to live.
@Charlescarey99410 жыл бұрын
Patrick McCarron You are right! I have been there two years ago. I saw one of the saddest situation I've ever seen. People so poor.
@mayito71410 жыл бұрын
Patrick McCarron Well said Patrick. Its amazing to me how some ppl who have never been to Cuba or had a conversation with Cubans can believe the propaganda that communist regime spews out...
@davidl63327 жыл бұрын
not for everybody...
@ivonotei10 жыл бұрын
when Cuba was great!!
@ildarkindibulatov5 жыл бұрын
Cuba was great when it kicked US out.
@DNT9124 жыл бұрын
@@ildarkindibulatov Yeap, they kicked the US and then they turned into the great holeshit of the world. Please don't bark anymore, u dog commies.
@USAHavana14 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I LOVE THAT IDEA!!!
@foxpawz14 жыл бұрын
i love cuba. cubans are soooooooooooooooooo nice ! great people. beautiful vibrant country. and i don't know much about politics, but even if they are poor, there is no poverty like u see in mexico or the us where people kill for 5 bucks. people seem happy in cuba with what they do have and just always vibrant and inviting and smiling and rich in ways our america/nort america can never accomplish.
@LUIS-ox1bv2 жыл бұрын
Right. And that is the reason why millions are crossing our Southern border illegally. They have a strong desire to be miserable in America.
@gunsh0tl0ve13 жыл бұрын
This film brings me back to the stories my grandparents used to tell me about a beutiful city full of happy proud people that had worked very hard to build and maintain this City.It reminds me of my hard worker middle class grandfather who lost everything he had worked for , to a bunch of parasites that destroyed his rightfully earned properties in a blink without regards.
@dannmm67456 жыл бұрын
Hay que independizarse de España para ser libres!!! 120 años después no parece que fuera buena idea...
@albertonavarro17825 жыл бұрын
100% de acuerdo,viva Cuba española!!.
@Sibanicul5 жыл бұрын
Eso mismo pensé yo cuando visité Cuba este verano. Ahora podrían ser parte de la UE, a parte de tener todo de lo que presumen del sistema comunista: educación y cobertura médica universales, así como seguridad social. Que España hizo cosas mal, por supuesto, pero a mi modo de ver, es obvio que habría sido más ventajoso para Cuba seguir perteneciendo a la corona española.
@mariajosemartin46633 жыл бұрын
Sería una autonomía más a los catalanes y vascos no les va nada mal
@iluminadita10014 жыл бұрын
Agreed‼
@funguy797914 жыл бұрын
I hope so too trust me. My parents were born there and I have visited on several occasions. It's one of the most depressing and beautiful places I have ever been to. If it ever does you and me can move there and be neighbors.
@puertorico59011 жыл бұрын
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA ERAN BLANCOS TODOS JAJAJAJA
@mariaa.castro.keywest61759 жыл бұрын
LA HABANA ERA SUPERIOR A TODOS LOS PAISES DE LA ZONA INCLUIDO ESTADOS UNIDOS ......ESA ENVIDIA SE CONVIRTIERON EN COMSPIRADORES
@danielestrada82195 жыл бұрын
No entiendo qué quieres decir con ese comentario.
@ranthonybab867011 ай бұрын
I'm a New Orleans resident and The French Quarter looks somewhat similar to Havana. Now understand most of the original "French Quarter " burnt down. Most of the architecture you see there is Spanish.
@DjCarlosSonic11 жыл бұрын
VERY TRUE MY FRIEND.
@all4musica7 жыл бұрын
Brings much nostalgia as to how the Cuba before Castro lives only in memories and what was filmed before 1959, Castro's take over....tyranny for decades...
@mambisa11 жыл бұрын
No. No todos eramos ricos. Pero se vivia con felicidad y en familia. Tengo recuerdos bellos de mi niñez que guardo con afecto. La diferencia es que hoy se acabo la riqueza de un pais que un dia fue una joya del caribe. Queda una nacion indigente y opresa. Comentarios como el suyo nacen de su ignorancia. Lo que sucedio en Cuba es una tragedia que ha durado demasiados años. Es el cancer que ha destruido mi patria, y continua haciendo estragos. Eso es lo que usted encuentra chistoso?
@normanwells27558 жыл бұрын
Was the narration done in the 1930s as well?
@megaswenson6 жыл бұрын
I have elderly relatives who sound EXACTLY like the narrator. Finishing schools and boarding schools (where Elocution was taught) had a great deal to do with that mode of speech, I'm sure. Is there a name for that accent?
@seafoodsofalaska4 жыл бұрын
transatlantic accent
@saulnoriega87148 жыл бұрын
El comunismo fue una mala apuesta para Cuba
@Corsair082910 жыл бұрын
La cagaste Fidel !!!
@juanbosco3114 жыл бұрын
Feliz Cimpleaños Manolo Alonso the best director de cine cubano !! en tu cumpleaños
@TheAlejos10012 жыл бұрын
A mi me hace acordar a Montevideo en esos mismos años. Tengo fotos de Montevideo de los años 30 y era PARECIDA a La Habana de esos años.
@Da_Fonz8 жыл бұрын
Fidel Castro = Obama
@ivonotei12 жыл бұрын
to all those people who posted comments on cubans being racist towards black cubans, well as a white cuban let me say that we LOVE the black and mulato cubans the same. My best friend throughout my entire childhood was a black cuban. In cuba people dont diferenciate between races, its like one big family and we just see people as "Cuban" not by color. I cant speak for everyone but that is how it is in CUBA, not USA, its dif. here.
@maber1514 жыл бұрын
NUNCA HABIA VISTO A CUBA COMO ERA, Y QUE BARBARO ESTABA HERMOSA QUE LASTIMA AHORA. Y AUN ASI TENGO GANAS DE IR A CONOCERLA.
@mraphel14 жыл бұрын
@cucarachavengadora Y tu, de donde eres?
@LuisVuiton14 жыл бұрын
from romania it is a pleasure to see cuba you hawe a beutifoul country maybe someday i will visit this beutyfoul country :)
@gladysalex93493 жыл бұрын
The good Cuba is gone with the communist regime Fidel Castro. Castro destroyed Cuba. #Google Cuba now.
@hebneh12 жыл бұрын
If you tour Havana today, you'll get taken to see all these same sights. And most of them look the same now as they did then, although much of Havana is very rundown. Almost no new large buildings have been built since 1958, so the old buildings haven't been replaced. You won't see any well-stocked store windows today, like at 3:52, nor any of the large signs. The USS Maine monument is still there, but the American eagle at the top (6:14) was symbolically demolished in the early '60s.
@gmg90104 ай бұрын
When exactly was this filmed or do we not know? Cause my Great grandfather Leo visited Havana in 1933 I think.
@Lockbar13 жыл бұрын
That traffic cops hat is CRAZY!
@hugodevara10 жыл бұрын
muy buen recuerdo
@MrCrojeda13 жыл бұрын
@empressofthefrench Good to know that. My maternal greatgrandfather was Cuban. I have many Cuban friends and I also hope to go there one day. God bless Cuba.
@claytonthomas53417 жыл бұрын
videos. de estos tuvieran gue poner aya aber si abren parte de sucelebro. para gueseden cuenta gue lo gue haneho
@henrypollack14 жыл бұрын
En La Habana había una docena de casinos, y el país tenía un bajísimo índice de enfermedades venéreas, lo que demuestra que no podía ser un prostíbulo de nadie. No obstante, como viejo y activo puerto de mar, la capital tenía una zona de tolerancia semejante (aunque menor) que la que hay en Barcelona. El turismo de EEUU, por otra parte, solía ser familiar.
@gv40411 жыл бұрын
Oh last tid bit. Between staying with family we stayed at a hotel... Btw lovely 56k to send an email to my family in PR, anyways one day there was toilet paper and shampoo and the next none to be seen. When we asked they said "Se acabo" she explained that once it runs out it runs out until the next boat with supplies comes in. There is no abundance and life is tough. I really do hope for a free Cuba soon so I can go back and live on that BEAUTIFUL country.
@mraphel11 жыл бұрын
Glad to read your point of view. As for me, I will not return while the reason for leaving Cuba is still there. It pains me because I may die without seeing Cuba again and my grown children and grandchild will never know it. I left in 1961.
@wsalinas111 жыл бұрын
La Habana es un apasionante estudio nos muestra una ciudad llena de lujos, de música, de una fastuosa vida nocturna, entre casinos, burdeles y cabarets, y el más delirante tráfico de drogas y la iseria material del pueblo cubano. Una Habana conocida como “El Paris del Caribe”, frecuentada por célebres estrellas de Hollywood y temibles mafiosos. Una ciudad dominada por las estructuras delincuenciales de Meyer Lansky, el financiero de la mafia norteamericana, Lucky Luciano.Anastasia y otros.
@lastcommodore207111 ай бұрын
Not only the scenery, but the people then somehow looked different than the people in Cuba today.