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  • Colorful Curacao (1939)
  • Short | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Colorful Curacao (1939)
Short | 9 min | Documentary, Short
The camera stays mostly in Willemstad, on the island of Curacao, in the Dutch Antilles (formerly the Dutch West Indies). We enter from the harbor and sail up the only main street in the world that accommodates ships. The narrator James A. ...See moreThe camera stays mostly in Willemstad, on the island of Curacao, in the Dutch Antilles (formerly the Dutch West Indies). We enter from the harbor and sail up the only main street in the world that accommodates ships. The narrator James A. FitzPatrick summarizes Curacao's history -- the colony of several European powers, its role in the slave trade, its mix of races, the native orange that produces a popular liqueur, and its near-duty-free oil refining. We see the Queen Emma Bridge and we hear about Dutch religious tolerance. Written by See less
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C. Bakaleinikoff (musical score) (as Constantin Bakaleinikoff) | Nat W. Finston (musical score) (as Nathaniel Finston)
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Updated May 27, 1939
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May 27, 1939 (United States)

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James A. FitzPatrick
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