Thanks for sharing, the landscape and shoreline has altered a lot now. Mayaro has developed quite a lot and the shoreline has receited. If you have anymore videos please upload them.
Thanks for sharing beautiful. just to let you know their is a Face Book page Called Angelo Bissessarsingh's Virtual Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, which will love all these videos you share .
You can't see who is black and white in B/W film unless they are African black. Depending on the depth of the colour light colours reflect and black absort the colour, so it was actually difficult to film very dark skinned people as you couldn't see they properly or next to something very light you don't see them at all. That can still apply even now with some film. If you look at the features you will are both but often it is the Scandinavians or Europeans who had the cameras as they were very expensive and the camera was probably owned by the company their worked for as still happened during the war. If you wanted to take pictures you had to ask the Colonel. It was Europe that came up with the ideas of and ability to take film and although there are many travel and scenic films most were historical family pictures but if you look there are black families there with their family too and extended white family. Not forgetting Trinidad has black and white roots. Wonderful footage and rather cleverly done, an artist at work and a picture of the way we saw of Trinidad of sun, fun and wonderful people, in those days very unusual as people did not travel very much and seemed a world a way. It took a stop over in the Azores stop over pick-up for more petrol and propeller plane to get there. In the 1920's it was probably Geest banana boat and a great adventure for those going there and those receiving the travellers. Can a place change so much? Many have sadly. Thank you for your footage.
What a time if you were British! Living the high life off the sweat of the local people and making sure they lived in shanty towns while Trinidad's British masters lived the high life in lovely homes and estates. The joys of colonialism.
The Indians and Africans that took over the country really *&^%ed it up. Billions of dollars passed through the islands and we're a failed welfare state. We may have to do like Zimbabwe and beg the Whites to return and show us how to run industries and public services properly.
I’m not sure if any of this was in Trinidad at all, except for the beach footage everything looked foreign. The boys on the tricycles certainly aren’t dressed for tropical weather, the buildings don’t look like homes in the tropics at that time AND there are absolutely no people of color anywhere to be seen.
God bless T&T and make it great again.
Thanks for sharing, the landscape and shoreline has altered a lot now. Mayaro has developed quite a lot and the shoreline has receited. If you have anymore videos please upload them.
very nice. looks like the 30s also at the end.
Thanks for sharing beautiful. just to let you know their is a Face Book page Called Angelo Bissessarsingh's Virtual Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, which will love all these videos you share .
You can't see who is black and white in B/W film unless they are African black. Depending on the depth of the colour light colours reflect and black absort the colour, so it was actually difficult to film very dark skinned people as you couldn't see they properly or next to something very light you don't see them at all. That can still apply even now with some film. If you look at the features you will are both but often it is the Scandinavians or Europeans who had the cameras as they were very expensive and the camera was probably owned by the company their worked for as still happened during the war. If you wanted to take pictures you had to ask the Colonel. It was Europe that came up with the ideas of and ability to take film and although there are many travel and scenic films most were historical family pictures but if you look there are black families there with their family too and extended white family. Not forgetting Trinidad has black and white roots. Wonderful footage and rather cleverly done, an artist at work and a picture of the way we saw of Trinidad of sun, fun and wonderful people, in those days very unusual as people did not travel very much and seemed a world a way. It took a stop over in the Azores stop over pick-up for more petrol and propeller plane to get there. In the 1920's it was probably Geest banana boat and a great adventure for those going there and those receiving the travellers. Can a place change so much? Many have sadly. Thank you for your footage.
What a time if you were British! Living the high life off the sweat of the local people and making sure they lived in shanty towns while Trinidad's British masters lived the high life in lovely homes and estates. The joys of colonialism.
The Indians and Africans that took over the country really *&^%ed it up. Billions of dollars passed through the islands and we're a failed welfare state. We may have to do like Zimbabwe and beg the Whites to return and show us how to run industries and public services properly.
I really wish if the British still ruled us...
A lot of Whites fled Trinidad in the 1960's to 70's. A lot went to the UK, didnt some go to Barbados?
I’m not sure if any of this was in Trinidad at all, except for the beach footage everything looked foreign. The boys on the tricycles certainly aren’t dressed for tropical weather, the buildings don’t look like homes in the tropics at that time AND there are absolutely no people of color anywhere to be seen.
"Independence" is not for every country...
Shay Von thank u
Those colonizers had a good ol' hell of a time didn't they?
Where is de black people