{"id":198,"date":"2016-11-12T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mypellau.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-11-12T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:56:03","slug":"films-that-capture-the-1930s-of-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypellau.com\/portal\/films-that-capture-the-1930s-of-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Films That Capture the 1930s of the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now in the 1930s, the Caribbean was for the most part under British rule. To the outside world, these lands were mysterious and captivating. So for filmmakers, the idea of placing the film&#8217;s setting in the Caribbean was quite appealing. So Pellau Magazine became curious also. We wanted to know which films captured the essence of the 1930s Caribbean. Here&#8217;s what was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Windmill in Barbados (1933)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Working as a recruit for John Grierson, Basil Wright partnered with the EMB Film Unit to produce a film (the first of a series of films) about the West Indies. Specifically, he was encouraged to capture the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, along with the Panamanian disease in bananas and Witchbroom disease in Cacao\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The motion picture was entitled &#8216;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Eyes of Science\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/www.colonialfilm.org.uk\/node\/6734<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>White Zombie (1932)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This Halperin Brothers film (Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin) follows Americans Neil Parker and his fiancee Madeline Short, to the Haitian plantation owned by Charles Beaumont. They were set to be wed there but encountered the white sorcerer-master of the Haitian sugar mill, an evil voodoo master Murder Legendre. The story follows the characters as they face an army of zombies sent by the voodoo master due to the lust of Madeline by Beaumont. The film depicts, voodoo( although it should not be the identity of Haiti), plantation and life in Haiti between the rich and the poor on the island. <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQ0hL4EBC58?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Ouanga (1936) (aka Love Wanga,\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">or\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Drums of the Jungle)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Using the scenery and ambiance of Haiti yet again, this 193<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>6 flick is centered around a <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">mixed-race Haitian plantation owner and the voodoo priestess Clelie Gordon (Yes voodoo again. Starting to see a trend here). The two were lovers, for two years, until neighboring white American Adam Maynard and his white, fianc\u00e9e Eve Langley came into the frame. Within the plot of the story, the overseer of Adam&#8217;s plantation, LeStrange, who is mixed race, has fallen in love with Clelie. Clelie\u00a0however,\u00a0is obsessed with the American, and uses her voodoo powers to get her way, but little did she know what was around the corner.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFOY_e1QSys?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>The Devil&#8217;s Daughter<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, also known as\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Pocomania<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">From Haiti, now on to Jamaica. The <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1939 American film directed by\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Arthur H. Leonard<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, portrays the story of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sylvia Walton from Harlem, New York, who inherits a Jamaican banana plantation. On traveling to the island to manage it, her half-sister, Isabelle Walton who desired to own the estate expresses her dismay to the decision. With Isabelle having envy for her sister, she plots with Philip Ramsey (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jack Carter<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">), the plantation supervisor, to induce Sylvia to call upon Isabelle. Sylvia is drugged and taken to the hill country, where the native cultists, led by their high priest, perform the Blood Dance as a preliminary on a burning altar. Since Sylvia\u00a0arrival, there&#8217;s been no sign of her disinherited half-sister Isabelle (Nina Mae McKinney), who ran the plantation until their father&#8217;s death. But Sylvia, her two rival suitors, and her comic-relief servant Percy are disturbed by the constant, growing sound of drums. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJG17khQJog?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Photo courtesy of:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Loew&#8217;s Paradise Theatre, New York in 1930<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a9 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">CharmaineZoe&#8217;s Marvelous Melange<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in the 1930s, the Caribbean was for the most part under British rule. To the outside world, these lands were mysterious and captivating. So for filmmakers, the idea of placing the film&#8217;s setting in the Caribbean was quite appealing. So Pellau Magazine became curious also. We wanted to know which films captured the essence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_bst_post_transparent":"","_bst_post_title":"","_bst_post_layout":"","_bst_post_sidebar_id":"","_bst_post_content_style":"","_bst_post_vertical_padding":"","_bst_post_feature":"","_bst_post_feature_position":"","_bst_post_header":false,"_bst_post_footer":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mypellau.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/8529273098_26f5fe3ef3_b.jpg?fit=1024%2C777&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/mypellau.com\/portal\/super-heroes-from-the-caribbean\/","url_meta":{"origin":198,"position":0},"title":"Superheroes from the Caribbean","author":"Dexter Michael Tittil","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Now, of course, we know Television series such as The Flash, Supergirl, and Gotham are controlling the superhero industry (in T.V. land) at the moment, but persons within our shores are actually developing their own franchises. 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