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| Rio de Janeiro - "City of Splendour" - 1936 documentary |
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The film is part of James A. Fitzpatrick's
documentary series "Traveltalk" ("The Voice
of the Globe"). It was released in 1936.
Because of the great demand and the
discussions surrounding the video, I have
created together with Martha Gomes a webpage
designed to capture this phenomenon. It
additionally contains three articles about
the video, which had appeared in the
Brazilian media. It also features photos of
today's Rio with screenshots from the
original Fitzgerald video:
http://www.martinottmann.org/diesunddas/splen
dour-p.htm
The film features the now legendary "Palácio
Monroe". The history of this building is
decribed here (in portuguese):
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A1cio_Mon
roe
The "traveltalks" predecessor of the "City of
Splendour" was released in 1932. It was
titled "Rio the Magnificient" and it is also
featured on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Q1kITY168
Tags : James Fitzpatrick Traveltalks Rio Janeiro 1936 Palácio Monroe Brazil Brasil |
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Affichage : 224016
Durée : 474 s |
| DOCUMENTARIO FAVELA RIO DE JANEIRO |
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favela's war
NY FELLAS PRESENTS...WALLANCE PRODUCTIONS
tedbuddy&tedbunker
A favela is the Brazilian equivalent of a
shanty town, which are generally found on the
edge of the city. They have electricity, but
often not formally. Favelas are constructed
from a variety of materials, ranging from
bricks to garbage. Many favelas are very
close and very cramped. They are plagued by
sewage, crime and hygiene problems. Although
many of the most infamous are located in Rio
de Janeiro, there are favelas in almost every
large Brazilian town. In Rio one in every
four Cariocas (as the inhabitants are called)
lives in a slum. [1]. The city of Rio de
Janeiro itself does not legally recognize the
existence of favelas. The name originates
from a species of plant with thorny leaves
that grows in the semi-arid North-East
region. Refugees and former soldiers involved
in the Canudos Civil War (1895-1896) in Bahia
would eventually settle on unreclaimed public
land on a hill in Rio de Janeiro called Morro
da Providência, because the government
failed to provide any housing for them. The
former soldiers named their new settlement
Morro da Favela after the plant which had
thrived at the site of a famous victory
against the rebels.[2]
Over the years, most of the poor population,
comprised mainly of freed black slaves moved
in, replacing the refugees as the major
ethnic group there. However, long before the
first settlement called "favela" came into
being, poor blacks were pushed away from
downtown into the far suburbs. Favelas were
handy for them because they allowed them to
be close to work, while keeping away from
where they were not welcome.
A favela is fundamentally different from a
slum or tenement, primarily in terms of its
origin and location. While slum quarters in
other Latin American countries generally form
when poorer residents from the countryside
come to larger cities in search of work,
favelas are unique in that they were created
as large populations became displaced.
Favelas differ from ghettos such as those in
the United States in that they are racially
mixed even thought blacks make up the
majority of the population. Although they
were first mostly made up of most
Afro-Brazilians they slowly began to consist
of many European immigrants arriving in the
19th century.[3] Another important
distinction is that, in a typical favela,
there is an anomalous form of social life
that diverges from mainstream culture. Such a
state of things was recognized as early as
1940.[citation needed]
Shanty towns are units of irregular
self-constructed housing that are unlicensed
and occupied illegally. They are usually on
lands belonging to third parties, and are
most often located on the urban periphery.
Shanty town residences are built randomly,
although ad hoc networks of stairways,
sidewalks, and simple tracks allow passage
through them. Most favelas are inaccessible
by vehicle.
These areas of irregular and poor-quality
housing are often crowded onto hillsides, and
as a result, these areas suffer from frequent
landslides during heavy rain. In recent
decades, favelas have been troubled by
drug-related crime and gang warfare. There
are rumors that common social codes in
favelas forbid residents from engaging in
criminal activity inside their own favela.
Favelas are often considered a disgrace and
an eyesore for local people within
Brazil.[citation needed]
History
Precarious houses in the favela of Complexo
do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro.
It is generally agreed upon that the first
favela was created in November 1897 when
20,000 veteran soldiers were brought to Rio
de Janeiro and left with no place to live.[4]
Some of the older favelas were originally
started as quilombos (independent towns for
refugee African slaves) among the hilly
terrain of the area surrounding Rio, which
later grew as slaves were liberated in 1888
with no place to live.The favelas were formed
prior to the dense occupation of cities and
the domination of real estste interests. [5]
The housing crisis of the 1940s forced the
urban poor to erect hundreds of shantytowns
in the suburbs did favelas replace tenements
as the main type of residence for destitute
Cariocas (residents of Rio). The explosive
era of favela growth dates from 1940, when
Getulio Vargas's industrialization drive
pulled hundreds of thousands of migrants into
the Federal District, until 1970, when
shantytowns expanded beyond urban Rio and
into the metropolian periphery. [6] Most of
the current favelas began in the 1970s, as a
construction boom in the richer neighborhoods
of Rio de Janeiro initiated a rural exodus of
workers from poorer states in Brazil. Heavy
flooding in the low-lying slum areas of Rio
also forcibly removed a large population into
favelas, which are mostly located on Rio's
various hillsides. Since favelas have been
created under different terms but with
similar end results, the term favela has
become generally interchangeable with any
impoverished areas.[cit
Tags : tedbuddy&tedbunker wallance tropa de elite favela rocinha tiroteiro bope rio janeiro brazil policia militar |
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Affichage : 210058
Durée : 333 s |
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