Levy’s Caribbean Colors: 1939

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This 1939 silent film, Levy Collection: Caribbean Tour Colorized, captures a vibrant Caribbean journey, later colorized from its original black-and-white 16mm. A chalkboard title marks "St. Thomas (Ah-May-Ye) 1/25/39," likely showing Charlotte Amalie’s harbors and hills, followed by "St. Pierre Martinique to Fort de France 1/26/39," tracing a route past Martinique’s volcanic shores to its capital. Filmed by the Levy family, it features bustling ports, tropical landscapes, and possibly cruise ship scenes, preserved as a vivid travelogue of two January days in the pre-war tropics.

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