Many of them moved to Miami, but I doubt anyone was shot. The ones who moved to Miami were never heard from again. They disappeared into anonymity and were forgotten by almost everyone in Miami, not to mention Cuba. Of course, many others stayed and died in Cuba, and a few are still there. Many decades have gone by. By the way, the commercials belong to pre-Castro Cuba, the rest is post-Castro, early to mid-sixties.
Lol at taking the video description seriously. Man, decades of gusano and CIA propaganda has primed Americans to believe literally anything about the Cuban Revolution. "My abuelo was one of Fidel's vIcTiMs of ComMunIsM!" (Later it turns out the abuelo committed numerous human rights abuses under Batista)
For Cubans who could afford it, life in the '50s could be quite similar to the USA. The economy was very dependent on trade with the USA - America purchased the bulk of Cuba's exported sugar - and US products were widely sold. Even Cuban products were advertised in a style very influenced by America, as seen here. That makes the changes after Castro even more significant, as a capitalist economy was gradually wiped out.
Interesting film. Though I doubt EVERYBODY in this clip was shot or moved to the US. Actually spoke to plenty of people who were doing things in government and media prior to the revolution when I spent time in Cuba.
First of all all the commercials at the beginning were from cuban tv pre Castro but the rest of this clip is all Cuba after Castro Pacho Alonso and Gina Leon never left Cuba neither Barbarito Diez whos family did left Cuba second the quality of Cuban tv in the 50 was at the same level as the us cuba had a mixture of Cuban and american tv shows like the lone ranger lassie rin tin tin and others they were all translated in to Cuban spanish,than we had El casino the la Alegría Jueves de partagas Albun Phillips that showed the best of Cuba and the world in music,cuba showed other latin american countries the techniques of the television because we were the second country to have TV in this hemisphere,Cuban tv was very sophisticated for its time soap operas were very popular also the news cooking shows by Nitza Villapol our comic were the american cartoons like donald duck mickey mouse woody woodpecker pow wow the indian boy,an the three little pigs all in spanish, it was great we loved out Cuban Tv there were no revolution ads no government interference nothing military no Russian comic they stink I can go on for ever i was there I saw it with my own eyes
From 5:15 onwards is from approximately 1965, and is therefore post-Castro. Interestingly, it's purely entertainment, and the second song, with the band members positioned next to American jukeboxes seems especially American in sound and appearance.Yet the USA was seen as the big enemy of Cuba at that time.
Esa Cerveza polar seguramente era muy buena actualmente en ese pais venezuela hay una que se llama polar tambien pero sin suda alguna esa cerveza fue inventada en cuba y no en venezuela.
@@tvuserjt No fué hasta 1968 que se cambió el nombre de CMQ. Ya en los clips de esos programas se veían las siglas ICR= Instituto Cubano de Radiodifusión, creado después de 1959.
Interesting finds here. I'm still singing that Rina laundry soap jingle to myself. LOL Les Surfs were from Madagascar (a former French colony hence the reason why the song is sung in French), which makes me wonder if their government was aligned with Castro somehow? From what I can find, Madagascar was a socialist nation, but not until well into the '70s. I also assume the Castro regime didn't decry rock and roll as "decadent" the way other Communist nations did? Likely they just didn't want Cubans listening to American (and I would assume also British) music.
Only the ads from the first part up until around 5:15-5:20 are from before the revolution, the second part is from mid-late 60s Cuban television, from 1965 onwards.
stripe66506 Have to agree. It's unlikely "everybody" in these ads and films were killed. Sadly Cubans ex-pats have always been a bit hyperbolic with regard to Castro, it's like some mass-induced hysteria. They have always painted him as worse-than-Hitler, with supposed mass-killings and purges and yet no evidence of this has ever materialized. Castro Revolution Cuba easily has a better human rights record compared to other nations we're friends with like Colombia but you'd never know it judging from the supposed atrocities Castro has committed.
@@Rosa01010101 How do you say that with a straight face? I'm not going to pretend that Fidel and his regime were saints, because all political revolutions are violent, and in many cases innocent people suffer. But there is a huge difference for being politically persecuted because you're anti-Communist, and being murdered because you're not the right race/ethnicity, or sexual orientation. The extent of Hitler's crimes were monstrous in their proportions. But also let's not pretend that Fidel's rise to power happened in some democratic oasis; Cuba under Bautista was a dictatorship. Maybe the later Cuban refugees didn't suffer his repression but many did, including Fidel himself. Cuba was a troubled place and Fidel took advantage of the situation to put himself in power.
Yeah there were Afro-cubans in Cuba in the 1950s, as there were throughout all of Latin America for centuries thanks to Spanish importation of Africans during the colonial/slave era. But 1950s Cuba, especially through the lens of mass-media like this, was not unlike 1950s America: scrubbed of everything that isn't good ol' fashioned White Middle-class culture. Judging from these clips, Cuban television was very much inspired by 50s era television Americana. Was Cuba racist? Yes. Latin American culture is permeated with racism, just as it was during the colonial era. The European-borne were at the top of the hierarchy, with with the native-born Europeans being a close second, then the mestizos, mixed race folks who might be of European/Indigenous stock, and at the bottom rung are the Blacks and Indigenous. This carried through right to the modern era. Cuban racism may not have been as overtly racist and violent as say, the Jim Crow South; as far as I know there wasn't a forced segregation like in the states. It was more of a passive, unspoken racism where everyone knew their place. Ironically, for the turmoil and upheaval it caused, the Castro revolution, if anything made it unnecessary for Cuba to undergo a civil rights movement because the Cuban Communists were, at least on paper, egalitarian so Black Cubans had equal rights under Cuban law.
Gnome Chomsky They were some Black Panthers who went to Castro's Cuba and witnessed racism first hand. Also today hardly any blacks near hotels where the tourists are.
Oh my god, it's just the united states but speaking spanish.
This is puerto rico 2.
Many of them moved to Miami, but I doubt anyone was shot. The ones who moved to Miami were never heard from again. They disappeared into anonymity and were forgotten by almost everyone in Miami, not to mention Cuba. Of course, many others stayed and died in Cuba, and a few are still there. Many decades have gone by. By the way, the commercials belong to pre-Castro Cuba, the rest is post-Castro, early to mid-sixties.
Lol at taking the video description seriously. Man, decades of gusano and CIA propaganda has primed Americans to believe literally anything about the Cuban Revolution. "My abuelo was one of Fidel's vIcTiMs of ComMunIsM!" (Later it turns out the abuelo committed numerous human rights abuses under Batista)
For Cubans who could afford it, life in the '50s could be quite similar to the USA. The economy was very dependent on trade with the USA - America purchased the bulk of Cuba's exported sugar - and US products were widely sold. Even Cuban products were advertised in a style very influenced by America, as seen here. That makes the changes after Castro even more significant, as a capitalist economy was gradually wiped out.
Yes, lots of luxuries to be had when you've got an effective slave population working the plantations.
estaba buscando comerciales cubanos y al fin los encontre recuerdos de mi infancia gracias
Just a flippant remark on my part. I have always been fascinated by Cuba and the wonderful culture.
Interesting film. Though I doubt EVERYBODY in this clip was shot or moved to the US. Actually spoke to plenty of people who were doing things in government and media prior to the revolution when I spent time in Cuba.
they went to miami…
estos comerciales cubanos fueron transmitidos en el salvador pero en decada de los 40 antes de 1960's 1970's 1980's 1990's 2000 hasta 2010
saludos para todos ustedes
First of all all the commercials at the beginning were from cuban tv pre Castro but the rest of this clip is all Cuba after Castro Pacho Alonso and Gina Leon never left Cuba neither Barbarito Diez whos family did left Cuba second the quality of Cuban tv in the 50 was at the same level as the us cuba had a mixture of Cuban and american tv shows like the lone ranger lassie rin tin tin and others they were all translated in to Cuban spanish,than we had El casino the la Alegría Jueves de partagas Albun Phillips that showed the best of Cuba and the world in music,cuba showed other latin american countries the techniques of the television because we were the second country to have TV in this hemisphere,Cuban tv was very sophisticated for its time soap operas were very popular also the news cooking shows by Nitza Villapol our comic were the american cartoons like donald duck mickey mouse woody woodpecker pow wow the indian boy,an the three little pigs all in spanish, it was great we loved out Cuban Tv there were no revolution ads no government interference nothing military no Russian comic they stink I can go on for ever i was there I saw it with my own eyes
From 5:15 onwards is from approximately 1965, and is therefore post-Castro. Interestingly, it's purely entertainment, and the second song, with the band members positioned next to American jukeboxes seems especially American in sound and appearance.Yet the USA was seen as the big enemy of Cuba at that time.
Me alegro de que ha encontrado lo que estaba buscando.
Que linda cancion de Los Dorados y que bonita sociedad que habia en Cuba.
Respuesta Cubana a " The platters" copiados en todo su contexto, pero sin duda era lo que gustaba en la época,
Esa Cerveza polar seguramente era muy buena actualmente en ese pais venezuela hay una que se llama polar tambien pero sin suda alguna esa cerveza fue inventada en cuba y no en venezuela.
Se llevo de Cuba a Venezuela después de Fidel por los Cisneros.
5:20 until the end is post-revolution
Aren't the station ID & songs (from 5:14 to the end) post-revolution?
No, porque CMQ-TV aun existía...
@@tvuserjt No fué hasta 1968 que se cambió el nombre de CMQ. Ya en los clips de esos programas se veían las siglas ICR= Instituto Cubano de Radiodifusión, creado después de 1959.
Some became supporters of the evil Revolution. Consuelo Vidal, for instance.
What's the name of the song with the two "space" dancers performing around a rocket? It sounds cool even today.
Robert Blue Dum Dum De Dum-Les Surfs
so the 2nd half of this video is from december 1965?
Yes.
Interesting finds here. I'm still singing that Rina laundry soap jingle to myself. LOL
Les Surfs were from Madagascar (a former French colony hence the reason why the song is sung in French), which makes me wonder if their government was aligned with Castro somehow? From what I can find, Madagascar was a socialist nation, but not until well into the '70s.
I also assume the Castro regime didn't decry rock and roll as "decadent" the way other Communist nations did? Likely they just didn't want Cubans listening to American (and I would assume also British) music.
Cuando Cuba era cuba
Cry more, gusano
Donde se puede encontrar programas de televisión de Cuba en los años 50?
Probably a 16mm tele-transfer. Vintage clips, taken form Cuban TV?
5:48 Isn't Les Surfs- Dum De Dum Dum released after the Cuban revolution? It does not make sense.
Only the ads from the first part up until around 5:15-5:20 are from before the revolution, the second part is from mid-late 60s Cuban television, from 1965 onwards.
That makes sense because means of distributing music was slow before the internet
si Castro estatizó todas las empresas ¿Que paasó con polar?
stripe66506 Have to agree. It's unlikely "everybody" in these ads and films were killed. Sadly Cubans ex-pats have always been a bit hyperbolic with regard to Castro, it's like some mass-induced hysteria. They have always painted him as worse-than-Hitler, with supposed mass-killings and purges and yet no evidence of this has ever materialized. Castro Revolution Cuba easily has a better human rights record compared to other nations we're friends with like Colombia but you'd never know it judging from the supposed atrocities Castro has committed.
Tell that to the families of the Cubans who were lined up and shot post revolution after being tried in sham trials.
they're taught to hate their own country
Why is the word of Cuban ex-pats not enough but that of Hitler’s victims is?
@@Rosa01010101 How do you say that with a straight face? I'm not going to pretend that Fidel and his regime were saints, because all political revolutions are violent, and in many cases innocent people suffer. But there is a huge difference for being politically persecuted because you're anti-Communist, and being murdered because you're not the right race/ethnicity, or sexual orientation. The extent of Hitler's crimes were monstrous in their proportions.
But also let's not pretend that Fidel's rise to power happened in some democratic oasis; Cuba under Bautista was a dictatorship. Maybe the later Cuban refugees didn't suffer his repression but many did, including Fidel himself. Cuba was a troubled place and Fidel took advantage of the situation to put himself in power.
I'll admit, I'm kinda sad that I can't speak Spanish as well as I want to.
me too
bueno!
8:12 song name
Weren't there any Afro-Cubans in the 1950's. Seems to me that pre-revolution Cuba was very racist.
Yeah there were Afro-cubans in Cuba in the 1950s, as there were throughout all of Latin America for centuries thanks to Spanish importation of Africans during the colonial/slave era.
But 1950s Cuba, especially through the lens of mass-media like this, was not unlike 1950s America: scrubbed of everything that isn't good ol' fashioned White Middle-class culture. Judging from these clips, Cuban television was very much inspired by 50s era television Americana.
Was Cuba racist? Yes. Latin American culture is permeated with racism, just as it was during the colonial era. The European-borne were at the top of the hierarchy, with with the native-born Europeans being a close second, then the mestizos, mixed race folks who might be of European/Indigenous stock, and at the bottom rung are the Blacks and Indigenous. This carried through right to the modern era.
Cuban racism may not have been as overtly racist and violent as say, the Jim Crow South; as far as I know there wasn't a forced segregation like in the states. It was more of a passive, unspoken racism where everyone knew their place.
Ironically, for the turmoil and upheaval it caused, the Castro revolution, if anything made it unnecessary for Cuba to undergo a civil rights movement because the Cuban Communists were, at least on paper, egalitarian so Black Cubans had equal rights under Cuban law.
Gnome Chomsky They were some Black Panthers who went to Castro's Cuba and witnessed racism first hand. Also today hardly any blacks near hotels where the tourists are.
Yes so was other countries in the 1950s
Thank god for the revolution. Venceremos!
How stupid can you be?