Synopsis
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…
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Details
- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Tourism Film
- Raggae Legend
- Byron Lee
- Port Royal
- Scuba Diving
- Stock Footage
- Periscope Film