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Scope and Content Note

This is a full-length version of the film Miami-Havana.

Scope and Content Note

This is a full-length version of the film Miami-Havana. This film is in Spanish.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:52:00.

Scope and Content Note

This video contains footage of people waiting in a small room, likely an immigration office. There is also footage of a busy street, including several police officers addressing a man, a man handing out cards to cars at a red light, and other activity at the store fronts. The rest of the video is footage from an interview with Carmen Diaz, a clinical psychologist. She discusses psychological issues facing Cuban refugees, particularly balseros, and the political issues affecting immigration in the relationship between the United States and Cuba.

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Duration: 00:30:13.

Conditions Governing Access

This video is closed due to the presence of personally identifiable information.

Scope and Content Note

The initial portion of video involves pictures of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami. The bulk of the footage features a long interview with Tomas Garcia Fuste at the WQBA radio station, which for many years served as the voice of anti-Castro Cubans in Florida.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 01:00:00.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:21:32.

Biographical Note

Arturo Villar was a former journalist who advised businesses about opportunities in the Cuban economy. He left Cuba after the revolution, but expressed his desire to return.

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Duration: 00:28:32.

Scope and Content Note

This video begins with an interview with Arturo Villar. He discusses his insights on what drove the balseros, people who traveled via makeshift rafts from Cuba to the United States, as well the Marielitos (refugees of the 1980 Mariel boatlift). He also discusses the creation of Radio Progeso in Miami. The second half the video contains an interview of Arturo and his wife, Jorgina, together. Jorgina talks about when they left Cuba to live in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Miami, and her subsequent visits to Cuba. At the end of the video, there are close-up shots of Arturo and conversations with his wife and the interviewers.

Scope and Content Note

This tape contains footage for Miami-Havana that may have subsequently been used in   The Cuban Excludables. It contains clips of United States and Cuban Coast Guard picking up rafters; interviews with parents of one rafter; and explanation of US immigration rules regarding Cubans. In the middle of the video there is a section of no sound, followed by a high-pitched sound. Interviews resume after, and include several clips of Wayne Smith, and of the "excludables". Francisco Aruca is also featured in some of these scenes.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:37:03.

Historical/Biographical Note

Emilio Cueto is a lawyer, author, pianist and collector of Cuban cultural materials. He lives in Washington D.C.

Jose Cruz is a former Jesuit priest whose Cuban-American Coalition supports family reunification, advocates dialogue with Cuba, and opposes the US embargo.

Scope and Content Note

This video features a wide variety of footage. In the first part Emilio Cueto speaks with Estela Bravo and then sings and plays the piano. Around 00:03:30 there is an interview with Orlando Bosch; later there is footage with the Miami High School cheerleading squad; an additional interview with Lourdes Sanchez and her mother, which features several unidentified individuals; an interview with women in a sewing factory; and at 00:40:00 an interview with Jose Cruz. The interview with Cruz begins in Spanish, but then he speaks at length in English about his organization, The Cuban American Coalition. He also criticizes the Cuban American National Foundation and Jorge Mas Canosa.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:55:00.

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 01:01:00.

Scope and Content Note

This video contains footage contains a performance and interviews with Miami High School cheerleaders, who are of Cuban descent, and many interviews with other Cuban Americans. In between, are street scenes, shots of a US flag flying, and footage of the inside of a church (B-roll).

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Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:59:00.

Scope and Content Note

This video appears to contain material from both Miami-Havana and  Namibia: The Last Colony. The box indicates interviews as the Jose Marti Airport in Cuba and also mentions young people from Namibia. They may be young Namibians who were educated in Cuba.

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Original Format: Betacam. Duration: 00:22:00.

Scope and Content Note

This video contains an interview with 14-year-old Heidi and her friend Ricardo. Both express their desire to leave Cuba and live in Miami. Heidi discusses how her views and experiences are very different from her parents and grandparents. They discuss how Heidi's boyfriend recently left for Miami by boat. Ricardo talks about how he is afraid of the journey to Miami. The last few minutes of the video contain street footage of some kind of demonstration or crowded street.

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Original Format: Betacam. Duration: 00:22:30.

Scope and Content Note

In this video, Estela interviews two men on the street in Miami. They describe the work that they do to support Cuban exiles in the United States. Another woman joins the conversation and Estela asks them all to share their opinions on the relationship between the United States and Cuba. The woman reacts strongly to Estela's question and they continue to debate the two countries' relationship as well as things Cuba could do to improve quality of life for its citizens.

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Original Format: Betacam. Duration: 00:28:22.

Scope and Content Note

This video contains an interview with Saimi and her family. Saimi had lived in Miami and is speaking about the cultural differences between living in the United States and Cuba. She compares the United States with Cuba, saying that in the U.S., one needs a lot of money and has to work very hard to survive but in Cuba one doesn't pay rent, utilities, or water bills. Her sister and mother express their happiness to have the family reunited in Cuba again. The interview concludes with close-up, background, and cutaway shots of Saimi and her family. The final five minutes feature a different interview of an unidentified family discussing the hardships of maintaining connections as a family divided between the United States and Cuba.