Pre- Fidel Castro Cuba in the late 1940s in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]
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- This film provides an interesting glimps of Havana and its surroundings in Cuba before the revolution in 1959 when Fidel Castro took over the regime and Cuba became a communist state.
It shows great scenes of El Morro castle at the entrance of the harbor, the old center of Havana, cigar factories and rural life, accompanied by salsa music to enhance the atmosfere.
The exact date of this film is unknown, but by looking at the car models it is estimated to be around 1948.
The original film has been motion-stabilized, slightly speed-corrected, enhanced, restored and colorized with modern A.I. video software.
Please just enjoy the film. No need to make unpleasant comments about what communism has done to this country, because that is well-documented and already debated to-the-bone.
Source: Archive.org
Music: Band "El Equipo Del Norte".
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Please just enjoy the film. No need to make unpleasant comments about what communism has done to this country, because that is well-documented and already debated to-the-bone.
Sorry about that.
Dominicana, Haiti - there were bad days without communism.
Haiti is a paradise of capitalism but... Nobody likes it too.
Rick88888888888888
Nem precisava falar o que o comunismo fez a Cuba!
Você mesmo disse tudo !
Como nunca conheci e nunca tive interesse
Ainda mais por ser um país devastado
Imagine!
Trabalha com turismo?
I'm respecting your wishes.
... about what an economic blockade has done to this country.
@@hazelwray4184 about how the communists destroyed a whole country... Bunch of thieves...
The time when cuba was beautiful
If you support batista and his ethnical cleaning plans then your instantly racist for me.
Si te gustan los prosítbulos yanquis allá tú.
sosyalism is the same sh..t in red Color All For one and One for All the People has nothing and Castro was Rich as F..
@@Sir_Charles007 Cuba sigue siendo un prostibulo de los rusos y europeos, las llamadas jineteras cubanas emergieron después de la revolución como trabajadoras sexuales buscando una salida del infierno comunistas al que están sometidas. Siempre tienen que ser los no cubanos como tu quien no tienen ni puta idea como vivimos en Cuba quienes vengas a decir disparates como estos
@@realdragao6367Batista was mestizo and probably darker skin than you are, before saying some ignorant shit like that, learn more about cuban history. Bola de Nieve, Compay II, Celia Cruz. They were all black celebrities in Cuba with a lot of opportunities before Fidel Castro took over, Celia Cruz(black by the way) left Cuba and her mother died few year after and the communist regime never let her go back to see her mom. If you are not cuban or know out history s t f u
When I lit my cigarette watching this video, it turned into a cigar.
Really wonderful videos you are posting Rick, keep up the good work!
Best export from Cuba? Desi Arnaz. Thanks to you and Lucy for all the joy you brought to me.
Fantastic. The dancers were full of life. What an enchanting, beautiful place ruined by socialism/communism.
Excellent job again, Rick! Very natural colors.
Thank you Rick for another amazing video from the past, dont know where you find them all, but i am glad you do.
Glad you like them!
Hermoso trabajo Rick88888888!! Muchas gracias!
Cuba was the mini miami back in the 40s before communism.
I'd say Miami would be the mini Cuba tbh
No Miami was mini cuba you mean. Back then nobody cared about Miami because I think Miami wasn’t even that metropolitan back then. I don’t even think Florida had that of a high population because it was still swamp and plains. Cuba was more nicknamed “the last Vegas of the Caribbean” because it was so wealthy and had almost everything a man would want.
Loved the video. Sad it's no longer like this.
I always wondered what Cuba was like prior to Castro coming to power, and now I know. Castro’s revolution set that poor island back 200 years. He destroyed Cuba. What gave him the right to anoint himself leader for life?
Read about Bautista's tyranny
@@RetroAPlike Castro was any better
@@tailsprowerfan2729 hurr durrrrrrr dumbass
@@RetroAPCuba tenía el nivel de vida más alto de toda Latinoamérica e incluso que muchos países europeos entre ellos España. La dictadura hubiera pasado, cuando la gente es próspera no pierde el tiempo en políticas. Era un paraíso y sobre todo tenía su gente, descendiente de europeos y muy preparada, esa gente que huyó y que ahora hace crecer la economía de Miami. Fue una pérdida irreparable que será un milagro que se vuelva a recuperar por desgracia.
Thank you for this. So interesting to see the variety of people and activities. And the dancing! Oh my!
What amazing footage!!
British boy here, went there in 98 fantastic,, but still theses beautiful People had nothing of there own 🆘
Seems neither is right, people still go missing for having a mind...
That said I love this piece of TIME THE DANCING AND BEING FREE..... WOW. I'LL be watching this again, and AGAIN 🤔💕💥🇬🇧🆘😭💰💸🎃🗣️👁️☠️👁️🙈🙊🙉🙏
Great to hear that!
Absolutely fascinating.
Love your Videos! Keep it up.
Greetings from Germany
And the music goes right with the video...! Perfecto...!!!!👌 Eres un genio... !!!
This is beautiful. Thanx so much !
My beautiful country, back when they had class, dignity and self respect.
your crazy
Let me guess you are middle aged privileged white guy
Thank you. The soundtrack added to the film - the mind puts tends to put things in sync when the sounds are appropriate. Was there a purpose to the original (e.g., tourism)? It was kind of a strange collage. Enhancements were very nicely done.
I love the architecture, and the trees, and the scenery, and the dancing! Anyone have a time machine?
No need! It’s virtually unchanged
BEAUTIFUL
He destroyed Cuba the everyday people should have it all
This appears to have been filmed in the early 40s, perhaps 1942-1943.
The late '30s, not the 40s
😢😢😢😢😢 🇨🇺 My beloved homeland how I adore love and miss you I was a year old when my parents took me out from the devil himself in 1964 Cuba remains in my heart and with me until I depart from this earth or I will return to a free Cuba God and our Holy Mother Bless my beloved Cuba for ever 😢😢😢😢😢 🇨🇺
Thank you! 🤩 Fantastic! 🎶
Glad you like it!
Wonderful video again. I really appreciate your work. By the way, how many hours does it take to restore/colorize such a video?
More than an hour per minute of film
@@Rick88888888 thats lot of time but the result is magnificient
HAPPY DAYS
Amazing quality - fabulous work.
Beautiful & heartbreaking to witness.
Fantástico!
Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed it.
Cuba que linda es Cuba..
Wonderful to watch this. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful Republic of Cuba. Shame it's Communist now. Thought there would be scenes of Clubs & nightlife. The colorizing is very good.
Love my country, this is ✨BEAUTIFUL✨
Great work! Again! almost look like the Italian Neighborhood of NY
It is simply breathtaking. My kind of place to be visited!
I really like this video. There is also a mix of images from the 1920s and 30s as u can see by the women’s clothing.
Wow what a fantastic trip back in time Cuba is a beautiful place amazing to see all the activities taking place ♥️
Thanks for visiting
... those cars are still running the streets of Cuba today.
Thanks to Fidel)
@@RapideKreskas ngl
i'd kill for a car from 1940s
I’ve visited Cuba several times and this is fascinating! Thank you! 🇨🇦
beautiful video😎
@ Rick88888888 thanks for the film! Can you please make a correction on the introduction? It is "El Morro" Castle, not Mauro Castle. Thanks.
Done
This is sooo nostalgic
Thanks. Went to Cuba this past January.
My birthplace where my late parents were born!
What is the name of the street that appears at 03:25 in the video? Does this tunnel still exist? Thanks!
Yes it does.
Wonderful, love my Havana
Love your intro on before Castro. So this wonderful surface footage is from when U.S. gangsters and U.S. Banana companies controlled everything especially keeping the Cubans "in their place". Beautiful tourist destination for any type of "sin" for which one could pay..and pay.
There is a deep reason for spitting so much hate. You need serious introspection. 👋🏼
Even if that was true, and it was not, it will still be infinitely better for the people, that are now starving slaves without any hope.
nothing changed. Cuba should be Unesco heritage.
Wish you would do an "And Now!" portion at the end.
Wow. What a difference.
Plenty of commenters are already doing that job for me. It is depressing to read it!
This is a very nicely colorized film and Cuba was indeed very beautiful during the period portrayed but 99% of the images are from the 1930’s not the 40’s. To use your reference, take a good look at the cars, the clothes, the ladies hairstyles. Cuba was the largest importer of automobiles, fashion, movies, etc. in Latin America during the first half of the 20th century, the correct era would be reflected in the film clips.
wish it stayed like this
Can you do one on Puerto Rico...?? 😍
The big hotel in 1:39 was Hotel De Nacional, owned by Meyer Lansky
Just one? Well, it makes sense right? Now ALL hotels are owned by the Dictatorship, the Castros, and the military, not the people. We advocate for a CHANGE OF THE SYSTEM, no more dictatorship, no more political prisoners, no more jailed kids! Abajo la Dictadura Castrista. Patria y Vida!
Thanks Orlando!
@@signjoey no problem! I’m glad to help to show the real face of the Brutal Dictatorship that my homeland suffers and had been suffering for the last 63 years. No more communists!
Lansky built and owned the Riviera.
This is what I want to see beautiful land beautiful country the way it was before or we ruined it.
VIVA CUBA Y LA HISPANIDAD
geweldig werk, Rick! Laten we hopen dat el dia 15N iets teweeg brengt!
Q lindo bailaban y se vestian muy bien ❤en ssa era....baile,tabaco y ron
كوبا كما لم تراها من قبل
Wow thank you...
You are so welcome!
Wow it still looks the same today.
CUBA = " PHOENIX. THE " PHOENIX" SHALL RISE FROM THE ASHES!!! AMEN!!! FOR WITH GOD EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!! AMEN!!!
Nice.
This is where Tony Montana was born.
Nice vlog... look like puerto rico,,,, ruinas ahora😢
Before comm*nism
Cuba is an amazing place, beautiful, but wow, all my positive comments for Cuba! Hooray for Cuba! Amazing perseverance and a great resourceful people struggling under decades of an unprecedented blockade.
I agree... i went there in the nineties... loved those people
if it was a blockade the people would not be unable to communicate with the outside world, it is a dictatorships not a blockade, this is the big difference, the cubans are not free to think or live and nobody else than their leaders of their country is responsible for it, the rest of the world does not make the Cubans prisoners of their country. wake up! stop listening to CNN, msnbc, ABC..... the people tried to revolt against the tyranny and you said that they did not like the Covid situation, what a stupid assessment of it all, they wanted to be free from the dictators, nothing else. I have been there many times and spoke to the people, even if they are afraid they are telling you they want to leave Cuba, only because it is a prison, nothing else.
@@acarriere8534 I agree...
@@acarriere8534 Hi Alain! I think you got me mixed up with someone else because I didn't say anything about CoVid in Cuba. You have been there many times. Do you mean as a tourist? If you are from France it is easy to go there but not from USA. Mainstream media in USA always denounces Cuba and does not want viewers to believe all is perfectly fine there, the exact opposite. Many Cubans from the Bautista era and descendants live in Florida and denounce Cuba too. Cuba is not at all praised here, at least in mainstream ways.
A dictator before Castro dictatorship. Sad for the common person.
I hope many people are watching this and realize how Cuba was an amazing country before Communism took over! Are you Americans getting the hint!
How Americans say "cuban girls are well forked".
Unfortunately there's no reference to this wisdom in the movie.
Before the communist desaster Cuba was captured by bloody dictators and the mafia 🤷🏻♂️
Cuban cigars still the best
Amazing, everyone smoking Cubans....lol .🤔😳😀🇬🇧
Pura vida hermosa Cuba y su cultura lastima que está secuestrada por la farsa y mentiras de la revolución cubana :(
Havana's loss, Miami and Tampa's gain... communism was not the answer.
yes. communism is not answer but castro better than Batista dictatorship
@@sunnyday3656 What?
@@sunnyday3656 No... any non-communist would have been better...
@@sunnyday3656 Batista was maligned like every other democratic leader they were trying to overthough then. He was called a dictator for throwing a couple of drunk gamblers and Che Guevera in jail...
@@sunnyday3656 your delusional, go live there
Приємно💞🤗👍і цікаво бачити ці кадри! Дякуємо Вам💞👍👍💞!
Write in normal languages. Your language has not been translated by Google translator. Is this the language of some tribe?
que ricoooooo!
Pre-US Embargo days.
Pre-Castro Lmao
Your lack of historical knowledge and understanding is showing.
The only thing socialism needs in order to be successful is capitalism.
Thanks very much for this. However the footage is from the 1920s and one of the clips is a few years earlier. Otherwise, very nice Thank you.
You are wrong. It is the mid to late 1940s. Just look at the car models.
Yep, wrong.
You'd think you're looking at a European city for a second, wow.
Yes, especially around 6:35 where the peasants collect corn and wood on carts hauled by oxen 😂
@@PERCYxyz You clearly haven't seen what most European cities and its surroundings looked like during the early 1900s, then.
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva "and its surroundings" - nice save 😉
@@PERCYxyz That's not a save, that's what the entirety of this video is about.
@@PERCYxyz ignorance is bliss
здорово
Google won't translate this. What are you saying?
@@Rick88888888 Google translates it as "great" for me.
@@lwilton Correct
The days when crime ruled.
and sins)
And you must live in paradise
So sad, what communism has done to Cuba and their citizens
Didn't you read the pinned comment?
Yeah, life duration higher than in US, free high level medicine for everyone, dentist including, no crime in the streets.
What a Mordor
@@user-RedStar No money, nearly nothing to eat i hear nearly daily from my friends in Cuba.
@@franzjosefkerkhoff592 and still, life duration of a Cuban is higher than in US.
How is it possible, what do you think?
Maybe there's something you hear or evaluate in a wrong way?
No school shooting, no racial question...
No homeless, no unemployed.
@@user-RedStar because they eat from the earth not from a package.
😀
Ahora si que está hermosa y moderna Cuba, gracias a vuestro líder Fidel Castro, y Venezuela por el mismo camino , no aprendéis...
Damn so wonderful I really wonder why Castro's revolution happened for absolutely no reason whatsoever wow
Eso esta interesante
Maybe it's 1920s and not late 1940s?
I don't think so. Just look at the car models
@@Rick88888888 Exactly according to car models and type of women's clothes I made the conclusion about 1920s (perhaps 1930s) - the most showed type of car models is phaeton body.
Fascinating. Actually Havana today looks not so different.
A romanticized film of life for the Cuban one percenters.
too many to be only 1%
You have no clue. You live a lie.
The one percenters now are members of the Cuban Communist Party!
Well why don’t you live there
Cuba had the biggest middle class in Latin America by percentage of the population before Castro took over.. tf you are talking about. Perhaps even bigger than america at that time. Cuba was far Rut her than many American states.
LULA E FIDEL CASTRO DOIS MONSTROS.
Now you see what communism does.
yes it overthrows a dictatorship that's responsible for an estimated 20000 murders.
China would like a word with you.
Back in power and receiving financial, military and logistical support from the United States government, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans. Eventually it reached the point where most of the sugar industry was in U.S. hands, and foreigners owned 70% of the arable land. As such, Batista's repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships both with the American Mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large U.S.-based multinational companies who were awarded lucrative contracts. To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace-which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations-Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions. These murders mounted in 1957, as socialist ideas became more influential. Many people were killed, with estimates ranging from hundreds to about 20,000 people killed.
Ultimately leading to the death of a US President in 1963.
@@musicfunlax1224 you show, with full honesty, how much you disregard the suffering of the cuban people when you say "blah blah blah" to factual history of their oppression. You will meet batista in hell, Gusano.
@@musicfunlax1224
It was a United States colony. You're a typical right winger.
@@wolfstar675 We'd rather be a colony than be an island prison.
@Critique Everything no, prisoner of a one party castro communist monarchy dictatorship
This is obviously promotional so it's showing so the best aspects. Somehow I don't think the everyday family was doing flamenco in the backyard.
obviously not. did you think we're that stupid not to realise it?
@@florinmoldovanu everyone? No, just you.
Fidel , fideeeel
He was a Jesuit and vatican slave, how Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin.
So. In Cuba in the 40:ies, there were some rich people while others starved. Such a society never lasts. The upper class and the US brought this on themselves. Revolutions dont just happen for no reason. Some tourist pictures don"t change that.
It is extremely unfortunately that Castro only had the Soviet model to turn to for developement. As is it unfortunate that Cuba has to turn to Putin now. But that is all the US fault. Self pity has no friends.
"While others starved"? Where did you get your education about Cuba? Did you watch Godfather 2?
I got it from an information page from the university of Florida, referring to a national survey from Cuba of 1957.@@mdnis
In the 1950 there where people starving all over the world, Cuba was prosper and one of the 1st countries in latin America and the Caribbean, now is the poorest country in the world, and we have to blame America?? Really? What’s happening In Venezuela we have to blame America as well? You should go and experience communism before given this nonsense opinions!
@@PolacAle I'm Cuban, many people starved and were illiterate, Bautista was a horrible dictator and wages were basically slave labor even for white workers. It was horrendous conditions outside Havana.
@@koiledlogic9336 well now days people are starving all over the country inside havana and outside havana, Fidel became 10 times worse than Batista, actually Batista is known by Cubans mostly, Fidel is known by mostly the entire world as a dictator, man I don’t know how old are you but you should go now and you going to find out the real meaning of the word horrendous!
Con un poquito de estado de bienestar lo resolvían. Pero bueno...
how infuriating all this liberal husk, it's still good that Fidel did came. A real warrior and a man!
You have no idea what you’re talking about guy do some research!!
And what are you smoking, delusional
Даа...
То ли дело коммунистическая руснявая педерастия))
Es una lastima que tan buenas imágenes las hayan arruinado con la música esa con tanta típica que existe y poner eso que en mi vida había oído además que es horrible sin duda una pena lo que han echo con este film
Socialism has nothing to do with this, you just sound ignorant when you do, this is authoritarianistic communism and the difference between the two is huge. This is the story of what happens when the wrong regime gets in charge, not the wrong style of government