Haiti in the 1950's. Archive film 99431

Missionaries Francais aux Antilles or French Missionaries in the Caribbean 1950's
Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Several shots of students and buildings at the University of Haiti. Students entering a building marked 'Anatomie'. Anatomy.
L'Observatoire du Seminaire-College Saint Martiale. Observatory. View of missionary brother taking notes beside a wind-gauge; another brother looking through a telescope. A brother descends the circular staircase from the top of the observatory. Several shots of brothers sitting at desks and taking notes. One brother checks readings of a number of scientific instruments (probably barometric pressure and moisture content of air).
Archbishop of Haiti greeting (handshakes) dignitaries visiting Haiti.
A group of adolescent boys, accompanied by a missionary priest, walks through a plantation in Haiti. The boys inspect a man-made water channel. A woman leads a donkey loaded with materials on its back down a road. View of a sugar-cane field; camera pans across a field, to a road and stone wall. In the countryside, men walk alongside oxen pulling a loaded cart. Shot of a plantation. A bell, suspended outside, near the plantation fields. Close-up of bell, with words cast on its exterior. A (non-functioning) fountain in a field. A priest with Haitian boys in the countryside. Women walking in the rugged countryside, bundles on their heads. Shots of 2 former colonial French forts in Haiti. Shots of cannons and cannonballs preserved from colonial times, in a field. A cemetery, showing the tomb of a former colonial governor of Haiti. The Capetian Hospital in Haiti. Shot of nursing sisters and a man walking in the hospital. 5 shots of churches in Haiti. 2 shots of the Isle de la Tortue, its coastline as viewed from an airplane. Panning shot of rugged, mountainous Haitian landscape.
Panning shot of a town in Haiti, ending with a view of people outside of a church. Lines of Haitians walking through a town. Women and children walking in a religious procession, behind a banner, along a street and into a church in Haiti.