1930s PLEASURE CRUISE TO TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 1930s 72052g
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Made by the obscure Tucker Picture Productions, a company that produced a series of travelogues in the West Indies in the 1930s, this portrait of Trinidad and Tobago contains wonderful historic footage of this British colony. The film begins aboard the ocean liner RMS Empress of Australia and moves through the "Dragon's Mouth" to Port of Spain where various local sights are seen.
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island country off the northern edge of South America, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles.
Usually considered part of the Caribbean, it shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. The country covers an area of 5,128 square kilometres (1,980 sq mi) and consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, with numerous smaller landforms. The two main islands are divided into nine regions, and one ward. Sangre Grande is the largest of the country's nine regions, comprising about 18% of the total area and 10% of the total population of the country. The nation lies outside of the hurricane belt.
The island of Trinidad was a Spanish colony from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1498 to the capitulation of the Spanish Governor, Don José Maria Chacón, on the arrival of a British fleet of 18 warships on 18 February 1797. During the same period, the island of Tobago changed hands among Spanish, British, French, Dutch and Courlander colonizers. Trinidad and Tobago (remaining separate until 1889) were ceded to Britain in 1802 under the Treaty of Amiens. The country Trinidad and Tobago obtained independence in 1962, becoming a republic in 1976.
Trinidad and Tobago is the third richest country by GDP (PPP) per capita in the Americas after United States and Canada. Furthermore it is recognized as a high income economy by the World Bank. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, the country's economy is primarily industrial,[10] with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals. The country's wealth is mainly attributable to its large reserves and exploitation of oil and natural gas.
Trinidad and Tobago is known for its Carnival and is the birthplace of steelpan, limbo, and the music styles of calypso, soca and chutney. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most biodiverse nations in the Caribbean and has a wide variety of flora and fauna.
Many believe the original name for the island in the Arawaks' language was "Iëre" which meant "Land of the Humming Bird". Some believe that "Iere" was actually a mispronunciation or corruption by early colonists of the Arawak word "Kairi" which simply means "Island". Christopher Columbus renamed it "La Isla de la Trinidad" ("The Island of the Trinity"), fulfilling a vow he had made before setting out on his third voyage of exploration.
RMS Empress of Australia was an ocean liner built in 1913-1919 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. She was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships; and the ship -- the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China -- was renamed yet again in 1922 as the Empress of Australia.
In trans-Pacific service, the ship garnered fame for her part in rescue efforts at Tokyo following the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923.
In trans-Atlantic service, she earned distinction in 1927 by bringing the Prince of Wales from England to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Canada. She was honoured to serve as Royal Yacht during the Royal tour of Canada in 1939. During WWII, The Empress of Australia was sent to Southampton, where she was to be converted into a troopship; painted in grey, fitted with a three-inch (76 mm) gun and with a carrying capacity of 5,000. After World War II the Empress of Australia worked world wide as a troop ship in every theatre of war, including carrying military personnel to Pusan during the Korean War. She was finally scrapped in 1952.
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Very accurate description of Trinidad.I can't believe I actually learned the real story from this early 1930s video about the"Hosay" festival that I knew about while growing up in the 1990s.
love learning new things about my country.
this was a lovely video. Wow can't believe how different Maqueripe bay looked back then, I used to go there almost every weekend as a child in the late 80's and early 90's. Soooo different now. Even had a diving spring board, lol.
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. No mercy was given to locals who could no accept their role as subservient dogs for the English. Ahh the joys of colonialism.
Melvin Johnson Well said my lord
Paradise lost for whites lol. Colonial days where cities were a white joy and a black labor are done
Yeah, And look how wonderful it is now! No killings, no drugs and no corruption! You've really done well. CONGRATULATIONS!!
Melvin Johnson 🙌🏾 I couldn’t have even say it better, I just wanna go back to cut-some azz🥋🏏
Yep but to hold on to such negative views is pointless. Trinidad today is a crime ridden wasteland.
In the 70's and 80's I grew up in the residential area that replaced the golf course. All the streets are named after golf terms. I knew it was a golf course but it was a great surprise to actually see it on film. I was trying to see where my house be.
God bless T&T and make it great again 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Great again? Wtf
36 hrs by plane , wow
03:32 Trinidad Government Railways signal box at centre of frame. Gates can be seen in the open position. Trinidad's railways were abandoned between 1965 and 1968.
Very sad.
Thanks for sharing !
Well I laugh when he said how easy it is to get to trinidad and then proceeded to call how many days before you arrive. That trip would require a month vacation time from work now with those travel times lol
Same! We laughed too!
My dad was good friends with the Seigert boys (ages ago) good people. Great video.
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Great video!!
I miss coconuts right from the tree in the backyard. I went to the country club alot growing up. As a dual citizen, I had to take my U.S. passport to get my friends in.
Hi
Great video
This country never will be the same
Politicians ruin beautiful country.
Trinidad is the real food paradise!
PS I Live here?
Kris 2004 Seek God Jesus, not physical things.
Perry Froze true, true
@@perryfroze shut up
@@perryfroze seek knowledge, Jesus is the name of a slave ship not God. Can you say Yashuah?
The great days of Trinidad. Yeah !
How pleasant is was and is to have money. When this was made (mid-1930s) infant and child mortality was high and, esp. on sugar-estates, health conditions - as Lord Olivier of the 1929 Sugar Commission reported - scandalous.
It is accurate to GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TODAY 👍 🙏
Rich with words eh. Media marketing by British standards for British people.
Climbing the coconut tree to pick for MASA
When my ancestors arrived here in 1834, they worked hard as indentured laborers and decided to settle here and so my grand parents and their prodigy, when they were alive, they enjoyed living in a well kept Country, a paradise island with well appointed landscaped villages, there were clean smooth roads, steam locomotives, flourishing orchards, and coconut groves, we shipped asphalt abroad and we ran oil refineries 24/7, people had jobs and they were prospering, there were beautiful golf courses, shops and, fishing markets, and schools with neatly dressed orderly students. The current state of our country is without a doubt disappointing and dangerous.
01:52 Dent Ma Teteron (Lady Teteron's Tooth)
very good
Groovy
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this warms my heart
:55 yeah we know and the Venezuelans toooo.......
Oh the joys of colonialism and lets not forget the whites only Country Club!
I know right, the privilege of having pale skin. Colonial tendencies still continue today but in different forms.
What was the wallaby's name ?
No mention Of Carnival.
The beauty and safety that was..
they said 450k lives omg lol now its like over an m
Indeed So give Your life to Jesus Today 👍 👍 👍
Very nice! Bring it back bring it back , hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Back to the old time days!
no thank you
Back to the days of colonialism? Wtf
After Independence T&T no longer safe country for any visitors or tourists.
Are you dumb 🤦♀️
why does everyone have this weird scary accent back then?
Hot Dogs on Sundays.
but how did we develop our accent?
we are just changing bodies... a repeated cycle so it goes
Ah yes the time where the Syrians came to Trinidad and allegedly established the drug cartel here. I mean they were amazingly successful at business yet they couldn't speak one word of English LMAO
36 hours by air from New York?! 😂
If the soundtrack is the original soundtrack then this film is not older than 1950. The first tune is an instrumental version of 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes' from Disney's Cinderella, released in 1950.
That's ridiculous! The theme of that song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude No. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental Etudes.
Yes of course, my mistake.
The swimsuits at the end though, definitely not 1930's, more like 1950's.
OK EVERYONE GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TODAY 👍 🙏
Ehhhhh.........mmm............I...don't really know what to think about that.
Who don't like Trinidad
travis dubraj Me... Too much CRIME
@@minayolaclevers9687 so I guess you live in Denmark, Iceland or new Zealand .
Paradise lost and never to be regained until the small boy politics that passes for informed action comes to an end.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in
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😂 old t&t as a British colony advertised by the British as there paradise only mostly whites on the land at that time. Oh how times has changed. Don't know how to feel about this video. 🇹🇹
I don't know where you get that idea, I lived there as a child in the late 50s/early 60s. School was mixed races, and whites were very much in the minority. My family had friends of all types.
I never seen Soo many white people in one place in Trinidad 😂😂😂
Lol so true.
Ikr
Trinidad look much nicer back then.. Than how it is to date
I am not seeing any of the people who built Trinidad and Tobago where are the AFRICANS.?Only seeing white people and Indians.
Look for them in Flatbush or Queens, NY
@@AlphaBeta-to1un Low IQ
Unfortunately that wonderful place seems to have disappeared. How sad that the only leisure pursuit for many now is of killing people. One cannot get rid of the beauty but few are brave enough to look for it and especially to explore or be on their own. Carnival may still be there but it is no more than expensive beats and feathers and few of them worn. The creativity, fun and variety of costumes that indicated depicted other lands and traditional costumes are rarely seen, if at all.
"the only leisure pursuit for many now is of killing people" you need to get out more.
@@qjitsu no shes right