The Golden Equator

The content of this short is good but ill served by murky B&W photography of what ought to be a colorful documentary on the background of Ecuador and its hardworking citizens working the land.

With its land located on the earth's equator, it's a sunny land where natives are hard at work producing the many products that they can sell to other countries--mainly cotton and bananas.

Having survived conquest by the Incas and the Spaniards (in search of gold), we get a glimpse of Quito, a city built on Indian ruins with gold and silver used for several churches, all bearing Spanish Baroque architecture.

A glimpse of modern Quito shows men working on a new railroad that will make shipment of goods easier. A market devoted to a hat fair shows women and children weaving straw hats in Panama hat fashion, by hand.

Good narration but poor photography makes this short less impressive than it ought to be. Too bad color wasn't used.