Cuban Revolution, 1960s

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Cuba. Funeral procession; crowd waving Cuban flags. Coffins floating in the sea. Painter abseiling down mountain to create revolutionary painting on rockface. 'Vacation village': girls running alon...

Cuba. Funeral procession; crowd waving Cuban flags. Coffins floating in the sea. Painter abseiling down mountain to create revolutionary painting on rockface. 'Vacation village': girls running along wooden bridges amongst trees. Revolutionary with gun calling villagers and factory workers out. Fires burning in the cane fields. Troops watching the coast on the second anniversary of revolution. Procession marching down street. Military drumming and nervousness turns to carnival and salsa music. People dancing in the streets. Others joining in with maracas, bongos and banjos. Montage of newsworthy shots from around the world: saloon cars racing then skidding and crashing, doctor measuring man's nose, models, Queen Elizabeth riding on the back of an elephant in India, JFK, the war in Congo and Laos, South African apartheid, boxer celebrating victory, pop group performing on stage, audience fighting, dolphin swimming and matador being gored. Cuba. French newspapers quoting New York Times about expected invasion of Cuba. Car driving along coastal road. Camera panning across Las Villas where the landings took place. Men working on villas. Crocodiles lying in wait. Fidel Castro giving orders on telephone. Images of fields burning.

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