A look back in time. We recently came across these two Barbados Tourist Board promotional films: Barbados West Indian Wonderland from the 1960s and Magic Isle from the 1970s.
Enjoy the nostalgia of these two promotional films.
The first film is a Barbados Tourist Board film from the 1960s, promotes Barbados as a tourist destination, titled: Barbados – West Indian Wonderland.
This Barbados Tourist Board is from the The Travel Film Archive, which is a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films – that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970. All of The Travel Film archive footage was shot on film (much of it on 35mm) – so very much old school.
Source: www.travelfilmarchive.com.
Take a journey back in time to the 1960s. This Barbados Tourist Board film about Barbados in the 1960s covers:
- Deep Water Harbour, port of Bridgetown
- Tent Bay
- Bridgetown, Trafalgar Square, Lord Nelson Statue
- Barbados police patrols
- Harbour police wearing uniforms descended from Lord Nelson’s day
- The new general hospital
- Government headquarters
- Harrison College
- Queen’s College
- Chalky Mount
- Morgan Lewis Windmill,
- Codrington College
- St. John’s Parish Church…
The second Barbados film from the 1970s is a travelogue on Barbados, titled: Magic Isle.
Source: www.travelfilmarchive.com.
The section on Seawell Airport features a shot of Canadian charter airline WardAir which introduced the 747-100 to its fleet in 1973 which is how we dated this film.
Both the above films are available from: www.travelfilmarchive.com search for Barbados.
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