Fidel Castro - Rise To Power

Shot List:

01:00:03:20

Aerial view of Havana Cuba, Capitol building and surrounding area. Followers of Fidel Castro parade through the streets of Havana carrying 26th of July banners. Newspaper headline reads Se Fue Batista Batista Had Left Cuba. Demonstrators smash gambling machines on the streets.

Demonstrations at the University of Havana. U.S civilians and tourist caught in uprising are transported to the airport and depart Cuba. Rebel fighters pour into Havana to impose martial law and quell the rioting. Fidel Castro and his followers in the mountainous region of Cuba. Low angle shot of Castro with his men.

01:01:53:01

SILENT- Bullet holes in glass panes of door. Castro and the rebels enter Havana. Castro rides on hood of jeep toward camera waving to the throng of people.

01:02:39:22

Castro on platform talking to the people with wild arm gestures with a large crowd of people clapping.

01:03:10:09

Person, probably Romulo Betancourt, speaks before microphones. Castro on platform talking to followers. Castro gestures wildly during speech rejecting democracy with the words and action of a dictatorship. Rebels march toward camera, cut to feet of marching rebels.

01:03:41:06

Fidel Castro and his followers in a mountain camp. Red Chinese Communist official pins medal on Raul Castro brother of Fidel and future leader of Cuba. Shows Ernesto Che Guevara in rebel mountain camp. Peasant farmers march carrying banners and knives. Cubans accused of treason arrested, prisoners in ox cart pulled by oxen.

01:04:58:08

Rebel Army Captain Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Shows Premier Castro behind a desk. Army Captain Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Director of the INRA, greets Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia. Premier Castro has become a fanatic, ranting and raving as he speaks into microphone.

Comparison with another fanatic, Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler ranting and raving as he speaks. Scene of book burning in Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power. Scenes of Cuban Military prison and political prisoners that opposed the Castro regime. Scenes of Military Judges that have made a mockery of a fair trial and justice. Young boy points finger to identify a person that is accused of treason.

01:06:26:08

Death by firing squad. Convicted by Castro's court a man is shot by a firing squad, falls backward into grave. Five Judges of Cuban Supreme Court arrived in Buenos Aires by plane choosing exile rather than serve cause of tyranny.

01:07:05:22

SILENT- Scenes of Cuban Military Prison riot. Cut to Russian tank crushing uprising in a Soviet occupied satellite country. Red Chinese communist visitors to Cuba are warmly greeted. Cut to China People's Liberation Army convoy enters Tibet. Crates of Red Chinese weapons furnished to Cuba. Cubans operating an anti-aircraft gun. Women in the Cuban Military.

01:09:28:08

U.S. Military personnel removing Cuban supplied arms cache in Panama. Views of street protesters being dispersed by tear gas and water cannon.

01:10:03:07

Map of Panama. Cuban Forces under Castro conduct raids in Panama and Haiti in 1959. Aerial view of seaside huts and shacks. Negotiations between Cuban Forces under Castro and U.S. Officials for release of Cuban prisoners fomenting revolution in other Latin American countries in 1959. View of prisoners seated with officials and photographers around a tree.

01:11:59:10

Demonstrations in other Latin American countries. Police use tear gas, people cover nose and mouth. Police has protester in custody. Seal on wall of building in El Salvador. Police outside building with weapons ready for use, soldiers with machine gun, another sitting on mobile water cannon.

01:12:34:09

Demonstrators running through city streets, smoke and tear gas cover street. A pro Romulo Betancourt rally in Venezuela. Sign reads Castro Communism No. Romulo Betancourt addresses crowd.

01:13:20:03

Protestors shouting. People being sprayed with fire hose from moving truck. Scenes of overturned automobiles. Cuba distributes anti-government subversive propaganda in Peru. La Prensa newspaper headline reads Fidel Castro Finances The Peruvian Communist Party. Various articles in the La Prensa newspaper.

01:14:30:21

Dictator Fidel Castro is compared to Goebbels, Hitler and Nazi Germany during WWII. Images of Goebbels, and Hitler. Wooden sign with skull and crossbones and the words Halt! Stoj! on it. Prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp huddled near a barbed wire fence. Nikita Khrushchev on review stand waving hat to Soviet Army Forces marching by carrying guns with fixed bayonets. Chinese citizen-military forces at a rally. Khrushchev shaking hands with Mao Zedong, Chairman of The Communist Party of China. Scenes of a slave labor camp. Still image of Khrushchev and Castro embracing. Anti-communist rally in Cuba. Sign reads Cuba Si, Russia No July 18, 1960.