Wonderful World

Wonderful World

Rejissyor: Handy (Jam) Organization. PA-2177 ìWonderful Worldî 08:01:14:28 - 08:45:06:23 Color Sound 1959 "Wonderful World" Broad documentary surveying global cultures, lifestyles, emphasizing common human activities, sponsored by Coca-Cola. Narrator: Ken Nordine. Parallels in European, American, Asian, South American, Caribbean lifestyles, leisure, hospitality, (racial stereotypes in narration.) Landmarks, history, sports, architecture, travel. Amazingly, everyone drinks Coke - globalism, multinationalism. 08:01:14:28 - 08:02:58:19 Color Sound 1959 Intro. Stars & planets in space backdrop. Music, VO host talks of universal of human desire for "something beautiful." Revolving model globe of Earth. Aerial POV NYC midtown Manhattan. TD skyscraper. Rockefeller Center Plaza w/ patio tables, international flags. Lever House on Park Ave. 08:02:58:20 - 08:04:27:29 Color Sound 1959 Americana. VS baseball stadium. (sports) VO host. "Nothing is more American than baseball." Batter makes base hit. Fans in bleachers, beverage vendors. Car drives through covered bridge. VS Small New England town. Tree-lined streets, church steeples, schooners in harbor (ships, boats) in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, VS Harvard University campus, Cambridge, MA. Students entering columned building. 08:04:28:00 - 08:06:52:03 Color Sound 1959 Quebec City, Canada. People ride in horsedrawn carriage. WS Chateau Frontenac Hotel. Peace Tower- Ottawa. Mounted Police (Canadian Mounties!), motorcade by Canadian Parliament. Parliament on Thames River, Great Britain. Westminster Abbey, London. Royal Guards on parade, Buckingham Palace. Portrait of Duke of Wellington. VS English pubs, inns - men play darts. Signs of inns. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Actors perform balcony scene in "Romeo & Juliet," Stratford-on-Avon. Oxford University. Good scenes of horse racing. Fans holding drinks, watching race. (sports) 08:06:52:04 - 08:08:54:06 Color Sound 1959 France. Boat POV Seine River, Eiffel Tower & original Statue of Liberty. Notre Dame Cathedral.

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