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Fidel Castro - Revolution Betrayed Part-1

Public Domain Stock Footage Fidel Castro - Revolution Betrayed Part-1

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keywords: cold war, cuba, fidel castro, communist revolution, raul castro, ernesto che guevara, soviet premier nikita khrushchev, cuban prison

Synopsis: Unedited footage of the Cuban Communist Revolution led by Fidel Castro and his 26th of July Movement which propelled Fidel Castro's rise to power and establishment of the Communist Socialist State in Cuba...(read more)

  • Date: 1950's
  • Duration: 00:06:31
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Cuba

Fidel Castro - Revolution Betrayed Part-1

Fidel Castro - Revolution Betrayed Part-1 (29094)

00:00:05:04

Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro arrives for press conference with United States Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. CU, photographers click pictures. Cuban women march with rifles. Cuban soldiers in formation. Three revolutionaries on top of Military Prison; people at military prison, political prisoners inside prison.

00:00:48:06

Brief image of Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela 1959-1964. Fidel Castro rants and raves in address to crowd from balcony rejecting Democracy with the words and action of a dictator. Castro soldiers march toward camera, pan down to feet of marchers.

00:01:14:07

Cuban rebel revolutionaries in mountain camp, cooking animal over open fire. Fidel Castro with three of his men holding weapons. Raul Castro at camp with 26th of July Movement armband. Fidel and Raul Castro, Raul wearing 26th July armband. Shows Red Chinese officer as he pins a medal on Raul Castro. Ernesto Che Guevara in rebel mountain camp. Cuban peasants farmers marching with banners and knives. Political prisoners in ox cart being pulled by team of oxen. Premier Castro seated behind desk.

00:02:40:10

Rebel Army Captain Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform INRA greets Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia.

00:02:50:06

Fidel Castro, ranting and raving as he speaks into microphone, is compared to Adolf Hitler ranting and raving as he speaks. Scene of Nazi book burning in Berlin Germany in 1933; German Student Union burn books in Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power. LS and CU, fire in street of Havana, Cuba.

00:03:26:22

Low aerial view of Cuban prison. Large group of people, mostly women, outside of military prison. Brief image of prisoners inside cuban military prison. Scenes of Cuban Military Judges. Young boy pointing out Cuban political traitor. Execution by firing squad of Cuban political prisoner. Cuban political prisoner is shot by firing squad and falls back into open grave.

00:04:22:19

Five Judges of Cuban Supreme Court arrives in Buenos Aires choosing exile rather than serve cause of tyranny.

00:04:30:20

Scenes of suppressing Cuban political prisoners is compared to Russian tank crushing uprising in a Soviet Union satellite country. Red Chinese Communist visitors to Cuba warmly greeted. Army truck convoy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army enter Tibet.

00:05:34:18

Brief image of prison shackles.

00:05:47:03

Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev exits automobile at United Nations building in New York City.

00:05:51:00

Crates of Red Chinese weapons furnished to Cuba. Cubans operate anti-aircraft gun. Women soldiers holding guns.