Cuba

Long Live Cuba

1962 16mm 20 mins bw ec

Post Revolution, militia training camps, arrest on Contras, interception of US air drop, US planes seen through streets, bombing of Cuban airfields. Cuban injured in hospitals. Bay of Pigs sequence (same or very similar to Death to the Invaders), anti aircraft guns, troop carriers, ship burning. Funeral of fallen and parade. Castro. Burial of the dead.

Cuba Island Aflame 1963

Dir: Roman Karmen 16/35mm 75 mins col ec

"The four years since the Revolution in which Cuba has struggled to overcome poverty. Cuban militia, workers in cigar factory. Pre rev shots, (1953?) US businesses, Guantanamo base, Batista, US battleship. Nixon visit. Aftermath of Moncada Barracks attack. Reconstruction Castro's 1954 landing. 1959 entry into Havana, Castro and leaders acclaimed. Land reform, nationalisation order signed. Departure of bourgeois. Illiteracy and bad housing conditions. 'Texaco' sign comes down. Mikoyan signs trade deal. Cubans greet Russian sailors on deck of freighter.

Tractors delivered. Contra action and US arms seized. Castro at UN with Khrushchev, Schools, education. Castro at New Year party. More contra action, department store bunt down, anti US rally. Cuban night patrols. Castro speech."

Visit of Cubans to the USSR

1960-1 35mm 20 mins bw ec

Che Guevara visits factory with delegates. Che in Leningrad, Gerassimov makes speech. Guevara and Khrushchev at table signing Cuban-Soviet communicique. Mikoyan attends Guevara departure from Moscow airport.

We Are For Peace

1963-4 16mm 20 mins bw ec

Cuban Missiles crisis, short cut sequence, missiles raised on the mainland. Soviet destroyers at sea bound for Cuba. Khrushchev with Castro. Khrushchev and Kennedy sign the Test Ban Treaty.

Brezhnev Visits Cuba

1974 16mm 60 mins col ec

Good material of Brezhnev, Castro, Dorticos Estrado, Raul Castro. Gromyko, and other Soviet functionaries. Section of Pre-revolution footage - shanty towns compared with the rich and wealthy Americans, restaurants and dances. 'July 26th ' movement armbands, Castro and Guevara at camp. 1959 nationalisation, land distribution, waving crowds. Newspaper reports of Revolution. Counter-revolutionary activity, economic blockade, buildings on fire, counter-revolutionary activists arrested and under armed guard. Che Guevara with militia - some foreign assistance. Castro speech to clapping crowd. Continues with Brezhnev's tour to Oriente province, new schools, visits museum at Moncada Barracks, before TV cameras, meetings and signing.

Cuba Today

1962 16mm 28 mins col ec

Various aspects of life in Cuba. Factories, new housing, adult education, agriculture and social change.