1970s PUERTO RICO USA PROMOTIONAL FILM "PROGRESS ISLAND USA" SAN JUAN 83994
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- This early 1970s color film “Progress Island USA” was presented by the Economic Development Administration of Puerto Rico in association by Fucci/Stone Productions. It opens with flashes of different scenes of Puerto Rico to establish its growth (:08-1:26). The Puerto Rico skyline is shown, followed by more quick shots. A woman with a late 1960s flip hairstyle counts money in a bank (1:47). Flags of the US and Puerto Rico fly in the wind (1:59). The Capital in San Juan (2:04) and La Fortaleza Governor’s Mansion (2:11) are shown. The clock tower and students in 1970s clothing walking the campus are shown at the University of Puerto Rico (2:24-2:52). Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar (number 308) arrives at San Juan International Airport. Other airlines represented are Pan Am, Delta, United, and American Airlines (2:53-3:22). The Fortress of San Felipe del Morro is shown from the air and with tourists (3:23-3:54). Mansions with ornate tile work are shown in Old San Juan. Exterior and interior shots are shown of Casa Blanca, the home of Ponce de Leon (3:55-4:29). Brightly colored dresses are worn by members of the Ballet Folklorico dancers as they perform with their partners as musicians play. (4:30-5:00). The Ponce Museum of Art (Museo de Arte de Ponce) displays a portrait of virtuoso Pablo Casals, as well as other fine art. Children descend the gallery’s double stairway (5:01-5:31). Golf carts move across a golf course surrounded by palm trees. Other activities shown are tennis and gambling at the Craps table (5:32-6:05). Sun sets through the fronds of a palm tree (6:06). A woman in a bikini and a man in tight striped swim trunks walk along the beach, hand-in-hand (6:27-6:42). The Palmas Del Mar Inn resort and vacation condos are shown (6:43-7:03). Children and adults enjoy an outdoor night time band concert (7:04-7:32). Landscape shots include close-ups of hibiscus and bougainvillea flowers. Cattle roam. Green bananas and young pineapples are shown up-close. A field of sugar cane is panned (7:33-8:25). Glass bottles at a rum factory move quickly on the conveyer, where they are inspected and packed (8:26-8:48). The Economic Development Administration building is shown. Investments in Puerto Rico shown include the logo buildings of SPS, Panasonic, DuPont, PPG, Bourns, Upjohn, Perkin-Elmer Caribbean, and Digital (8:49-9:26). Technicians work on electronic equipment, such as the PDP-8/e mini-computer, shown with lights blinking (9:27-9:38). Pharmaceutical pills are shown in production. A technician sands eyeglass lenses. A label is applied to a pair of Wranglers (9:39-10:03). Flames shoot out of an industrial furnace. Union Carbide manufacturers petrochemicals at Puerto Rico. Other names shown are Sun Oil and Texaco. Manufacturing shown includes record players. A Sea Land container arrives from the U.S. (10:04-11:05). Mall stores shown include Singer, Walgreens, Groovy Clothes, Thom McAn, Woolworth’s, and Penneys (11:06-11:18). The U.S. and Puerto Rico flags fly in the wind (11:21). The rest of the film is of footage previously shown (11:23-11:58).
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I used to work for IT&T. I first went to the island in 1972 to work with the then owned telephone company to modernize its systems. While I was there for 12 years I married a PR girl and had three children. It was the best decade in the 20th Century history of the island IMO. I left in 1984 and have only been back to visit in laws about every three to four years since then. Sadly, I've seen how its declined from its former glory.
Were you in the IT&T office in Rio Pierdras?
there can not be progress in colonialism. Where slavery rules.
Oh, ITT (International Telephone & Telegraph). The Behn brothers* not only had the telephone and telegraph monopoly (except for a bunch of towns in the middle of the Island, closest to San Juan being Guaynabo and Caguas) for decades, but they brought AM RADIO to both PR and Cuba in 1922 (3rd and 4th commercially licensed stations on Earth).
In the case of PR was WKAQ 580 on December 3rd, 1922. ITT later sold the station to Angel Ramos, who moved the station into Smallwood in the eastern section of Puerta de Tierra, along with El Mundo newspaper and what it would later become Telemundo.
* the bridge that communicates Old San Juan and the tourist sector of El Condado (Dos Hermanos) was named after the Behn brothers of ITT.
@@syxepop Thanks for that. Fascinating.
I am glad that you have good memories. Made contributions to the telephone system. Thanks for your work. Best wishes.
The Burger King shown was in Carolina, PR. As a kid, my siblings and I used to pester our father to drive us there (from the eastern most end of the island). To this day BK is still my favorite fast food joint.
Es que es bueno!
I think the Wopper just to be better. It was so flavorful. Best wishes.
A Quinn-Martin production!
Los politicos corruptos estan matando la isla.
The Jones Act Shipping Restrictions are a Tool of Imperial ECONOMIC Subjugation.
What happened to our island 🥺 hopefully we will recover from this
DON'T WORRY! We're just TOO STUBBORN to not fight for it...
OMG... It's so hard to watch it without thinking about the mystery science theater jokes
I love Puerto Rico
Cada vez que veo este video me da un coraje!
Somos dos. Puerto Rico estaba ya convirtiéndose en una gran metrópolis.
I literally can't watch this without hearing the MST3K riffing.
I WISH THE PUERTO RICO would BE LIKE THAT EGEN.
@Nationalist Doomer Maybe 20 or more years to recovery
I used to travel every year to Puerto Rico, love that island !
The corrupt Goverment is destroying the island is so sad what's going on.
It’s cheaper than Hawaii.
This short film got the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment in the early '90s.
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I love this music.
Thanks you for showing this video Puerto Rico progress United States.
Only honesty will bring us forward
Operations Bootstraps: progreso
Yo: 🎶Todo tiene su final, nada dura para siempre 🎶
Wow. So many corporate names no longer around: Like Digital and Woolworth's. And I never knew they did so much manufacturing down there. I guess it was hidden under the "Made in the U.S.A." label. Should have been "Made in the U.S.A./PR" so we would have known.
Yes - just as an example, 100% of the Valium medicine and Life-Savers candy was made here at a time. Same with the BDU uniforms of the US armed forces. Levis and Wrangler jeans made here had "Made in USA" on its tags. The only American product I remember using the name of the Island was a brand of disposable lighters (Cricket) made herein PR.
Tax code advantages. IRS and congress had created a section of the tax code that incentivized US companies to either relocate or create subsidiaries in PR. Any earnings created in PR could be repatriated in US tax free.
A lot of companies either moved some production to the island, or manufactured and transported to the island for finishing. Only thing was that as it usually happens, it was taken advantage of. Pharma companies would do R&D in the states and patent a drug, transfer the patent to its subsidiary and then produce the drug with tax free earnings. Companies would leave assembly or finishing to island workers to comply with the law, but reap the tax advantages.
It was eventually phased out, and so many companies packed up and went where it was more advantageous for them.
@@useaol A lot of them left the money down their in banks the interest rate tax free.
The Colony of USA is the appropriate title!
@1:50 "Puerto Rico is permanently associated with the United States, it's 3 million people, are US Citizens, and like other Americans, enjoy, a representative form of government"
Not so fast skippy.
While it is true, PR residents are US citizens, we have no representation in US politics other than a "resident comissioner" that has no vote, in the US Congress.
I was born (1963) and raised there, a pro Statehooder all my life. Either the island gets it's act together, and hold a plebiscite, excluding the present ELA option, or we won't be taken seriously by the U.S.
And frankly, right now, I'd rather see PR a free and independent nation.
Becoming another state of the Union, will only mean, we're now "another brick in the wall" with no autonomy, subject to the whims of the US economy, with no real steering of our future, just another state of the union with no real incentive or contribution to make, IMHO.
Election after election, all we managed is to elect administrators, regardless of their party affiliations, intent on pillaging and robbing, with no meaningful contributions to the well being of it's constituents.
Early on I saw the writing on the wall and moved out in 1998.
Pains me to see my compatriots, stumble time after time, thus why, I believe, Independence it's the way to go.
Well said.
How I wish PR could gain independence and freedom from the long standing US control and corruption..
Boriqua de corazon ~ Morovis/Ponce
Your island can't leave the USA if it does it will go to shit who is paying your debt who is importing your food
"Early on I saw the writing on the wall and moved out in 1998...." so, If PR were to gain its independence, would you move back?
@@13htorrespr Good question. Cause I bet almost no one will. Exporting and importing will be up to the citizens and the "elite" that want to maintain the island's autonomy.
La independencia no sirve.
my island! 😍
Beautiful Isla Puerto Rico lo tiene Todo, Preciosa Preciosa te llaman los hijos de la liberta.
Y 50 anos despues todavia no hay estadidad!
Y mejor que no la haya
Y no hace falta! mira como se vivia en esa epoca! trabajo, economia solida, desencia
Para ese tiempo Puerto Rico estaba más que bien. Es más para ese entonces veía más a Puerto Rico siendo un estado en un futuro, tal vez el mismo USA estaba considerándolo pero llegaron los corruptos y todo se jodió.
We don't know what this is. But, it's definitely Puerto Rico stuff!
Viva=====>Puerto=====>[🇵🇷]
Amazing how it all went to Sxxx after that... unbelievable
Ahora hay 3 aeropuerto internacionales Aguadilla
Ponce
San Juan
5 o 6 porque ahora Isla Grande, Vieques y Culebra tambien reciben vuelos internacionales de vez en cuando.
123 estaciones de
Radio.
Abundant with pink and white people.
Place was completely different 60 years ago...
It was actually a good mix, beautiful people...
I was fortunate to have lived it...it was a blast
La Economia ya paso a ser un sueño. Trabajos que desaparecieron
San Lario mínimo 7:25 la hora del dólar ok.
Puerto Rico is closer to Connecticut in area than Rhode Island. It's about the size of Rhode Island & Delaware combined.
Actually, its' 3515* sq. mi. (9104 sq. km.) makes the Island the 48th US jurisdiction in size. The States of Delaware and Rhode Island are BOTH smaller than Puerto Rico with the Big Island in Hawaii being a bit more than half the size. The following States in size are New Jersey and Hawaii, both between 75-110% LARGER than Puerto Rico.
*for most of my life here in PR I was led to believe in the 3435 sq. mi. measurement, either way it's the result of its' roughly 100 x 35 mi. size, although the maxes are really 110 x 41 mi.
Colonialism that continúes to this day!!!!!!
I would give a plug nickel to know the truth about how this place became a dump.
Doyle Hargraves bruh
Political corruption. Like everywhere else.
Puerto Rico has been one of the most dynamic and competitive economies in Latin America and the Caribbean region until recent years, Puerto Rico's economy relies mainly on federal aid from the United State government. Puerto Rico's economy was dominated by sugar production up until the 1940s. Manufacturing has surpassed agriculture as the primary sector of economic activity and income; composing almost half (about 46%) of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the island. The leading industries include: pharmaceuticals, electronics, textiles, petrochemicals, processed foods, clothing and textiles. Followed by the service industry: finance, insurance, real estate, and tourism.
Since 2006, Puerto Rico's growth has been negative since. The dip coincides with the elimination of tax preferences that had led US companies to invest in the island since the 1950s.
Thus, today, Puerto Rico's major problem is the lack of jobs for an expanding population and the rate of economic improvement.
@@lwilton The tax change made no damn sense.
Doyle Hargraves the answer is simple
BEING A COLONY
Para renunciar a la ciudadania Americana no necesitas ir a ninguna embajada solo agarras un estijera y mutilas el seguro social y no vuelvas a usarlo es todo 🇵🇷😎
Porque Puerto Rico USA cambio al progreso y desarrollo y
Properida.
?
All sadly lost
Man this island has gone to sh*t. Look at this and compare it today it’s just embarrassing.
Thanks to USA colonial laws like the Jones Act aka The Merchant Marine Act :(.
Embarrassing is what the loan sharks alias BUITRES alias corrupt politicians have done to this island and its people who are the ones paying and making then wealthy while we are suffering and sacrificing ourselves to support those who fill their mouths saying we are lazy and that they give us everything when it's the other way around.
Puerto Rico has no future guys.....
And this is coming from a 17 year old Luquillensen
Look i love this island with all my heart
It's where i was raised
Met my best friends
Had life lessons
Been to amazing places
Experienced many things
But
I have to leave this place eventually
I'm joining the u.s army
In about a year once highschool is done
Sorry to say but
This island is chok full of issues
And i know that issues are everywhere but
Atleast out there they deal with it
Puerto Ricans are lazy and don't wanna accept change
Very sad if that is the overall sentiment today.
That’s true. I stayed at an Airbnb close to San Juan by a woman who’s mother was Puerto Rican, and father moved there from Sweden. She used to run a successful restaurant and showed me all the photos she looks at me and she says do you know what’s wrong with Puerto Rico? Puerto Ricans are lazy. I didn’t know what to say, I knew she was right but I wasn’t sure if she was baiting me to put my foot in my mouth so I just smiled.
What surprises me about 97% of Puerto Rico is just how incredibly ugly they build everything. even when they put down concrete, most of the time, they’ll just spread it like peanut butter instead of taking the time to form it and level it precisely.
The only probable way of fixing PR is to remove all local politicians (they've been always corrupt and for too long), install honest (yes, there are such things. I know many that hate current politics here ) mainland American politicians closely monitored by a joint PR/U.S. mainland agency to make sure there is ZERO corruption, have complete accountability and restructure the island'seconomy.
@@tavomomo
There's also the party switch the PNP did after Ferre died
they switched from being republican affiliates to democrats
ok boomer
So sad to see Puerto Rico on this date. It’s now a third world country. With no progress.
45 centros comerciales.
El congreso elimino 936. Porque no pagaba
Taxes ok so bruto .
Los estados de que jardín eso fue todo.
Esa NO es la realidad de PR
Te lo quieren vender así
Puerto Rico responded dramatically to Operation Bootstrap, launching itself from a limited backwater U.S. commonwealth to a transformed, industrialized economy in a matter of a generation or two, with no parallel in its culturally-linked Caribbean and Latin American context. That was a success story, despite a number of unmet goals. The neighboring Dominican Republic for example, larger in population and raw resources, was significantly behind PR and didn't start to catch up until the mid to late 1980s, as by now the DR is far more developed than it was and keeps steadily growing. I do not get really why and how Puerto Rico derailed and lost its drive forward. Would full statehood change the way things are going?
P.R has too many thieves in government. Working for themselves and not the people 🙄
Easy, see above my comments...
Those billions of dollars don't stay in Puerto Rico.
Puerto rico es español, Puerto Rico con españa seria Puerto Rico de verdad y no está semi esclavitud que le dan estos yanquis
😂 keep lying to yourself kid
@@kdelvalle4696
Its spanish like hawaii is hawaiian and quebec is french.
Me pregunto cómo hubiera aguantado la Isla de haber seguido siendo Propiedad Española (a lo mejor hubieran obtenido la Estadidad como Provincia, pero lo dudo...) en los "tiempos oscuros" de El Generalisimo Fransisco Franco.... Otra Catalunya quizás?
@@syxepop
Pienso que seriamos algo como guinea
ecuatorial o filipinas son dos paises con
historias algo similares a la de puerto rico.
@@guardsmangaming3775 - Filipinas más bien.
Ellos pasaron a EEUU al mismo tiempo que PR, pero obtuvieron la Independencia después de sufrir la Ocupación Japonesa en la 2GM.
Aún con todo y eso, sigue siendo un país del 3er Mundo con un crecimiento poblacional que apenas pueden pagar.
Pobre calidad de color en esta pelicula
Este video es una mentira.
Era la manera en que "vendían" la Isla a los inversionistas extranjeros, puro y simple...
Es un video de promocion!
Mentira para ti. A Puerto Rico venían varios países que hoy día son poderosos a tomar el modelo y ejemplo.
No, yo lo viví...eres ignorante y mal educado
🤮🤮🤮