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SHOTS OF FREEDOM DAY OF NEGROES THROUGHOUT BRAZIL. MAY 13


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SHOTS OF FOOT BALLERS PLAYING FROM EARLY MORNING TILL DARK. ALL THIS WAS SHOT YESTERDAY MAY 13.


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LES RETLEY WANTS ALL ON MACUMBA HE WANTED THIS LENGTH (ABOUT 700 FT FOR HIS DOCUMENTARY (1 HOUR LONG) 1 WOULD HAVE SETTLED FOR ABOUT 200 - 400 ft. GOOD LIBRARY MATERIAL AS WELL.



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400 FT. (100 ROLLS) FOOTBALL CRAZE AROUND RIO. 100 FT OR THIS PUBLICITY SHOTS ON BRITISH UNION AIRWAYS (USE A SHOT IF YOU CAN).




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DO NOT USE SHOT OF GIRL WITH "BRITISH UNITED BAG WORLD CUP WILLIE BAG" AT BATHING POOL - HER HUSBAND OBJECTED AFTERWARDS BECAUSE OF "BRITISH PROPAGANDA"

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Background: THIS COVERAGE IS OF THE FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS IN BRAZIL THE CEREMONY I ATTENDED WAS "THE MACUMBA" AN AFRO-CATHOLIC STYLE OF RELIGION WHICH IS PRACTISED BY THE NEGROES OF BRAZIL. FROM AUTHORITIVE CIRCLES IN BRAZIL I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS RELIGIOUS CEREMONY HAS RARELY IF EVER BEEN SEEN ON ANY WORLD TELEVISION.

ON FRIDAY 13 MAY WAS THE DAY IN 1882 WHEN THE NEGROES WERE FREED FROM SLAVERY. ONCE A YEAR THIS DAY IS CELEBRATED IN OUT OF THE WAY PLACES. I MANAGED TO GET IN ON THIS ONE ON FRIDAY 13 NIGHT. YESTERDAY (MAY 13) WAS THE ONE YEARLY CEREMONY.

THE HIGH PRIEST ("PAI DO SANTO" CHIEF OF SAINTS) ATTENDED BY HIS PRIESTESS PERFORM THE RITES BEFORE AN ALTAR WHERE STATUS OF CHRIST, MARY, PETER, JOHN AND OTHER SAINTS STAND. THE PLACE (THIS WAS ON TOP OF THE NEAR WOODS) WAS LIGHT BY CANDLES AND THE PRIEST AND PRIESTESS, DOMINATED OVER BY THE HIGH PRIEST, WORKED THEMSELVES UP WITH PASSIONS. WHICH LEFT THEM SHAKING, HYPNOTISED AND IN A TRANCE SOME WOULD SHAKE VIOLENTLY AND THEN FALL TO GROUND. HYSTERIA RAN RIOT AS THEY DANCED FOR JOY ONE FREEDOM DAY THEY DRANK "CAXACHA" A 100% ALCOHOL SPIRIT (I HAD SOME) WHICH HELPS TO GET THE HEP. THE HIGH PRIEST GOES THRO' VARIOUS TYPES OF HEAD GEAR. THE WOMEN END UP SHAKING IN HYPNOTIC TRANCE WHILE PRIESTS PERFORM THE WEIRD STATES OF ANIMATION.

FOOTBALL PLAYERS ON RIOS MANY PITCHER PLAYING ON "FREEDOM DAY" THOUSANDS OF YOUNGSTERS SPEND ALL THEIR SPARE TIME DOING NOTHING ELSE - PLAYING ON, HARD GROUND, SOFT SAND, TURF, FROM DAWN TO MIDNIGHT NONE STOP. WHEN ONE GAME FINISHES - ANOTHER GROUP TAKES THEIR PLACE NO WONDER THE HAVE NONE WORKS CHAMPIONSHIP TWO YEARS RUNNING 1958 & 1964 THE TWO DOMINATING THINGS HERE ARE FOOTBALL AND RELIGION WITH THIS WEIRD "MACUMBA". THE NEGRO RELIGIOUS FERVOUR AND DEXTERITY OF BODY IS BROUGHT OUT IN THE CHILLING THEIR DEVOTION & FANTASTIC THE COUPLING OF THESE TWO STRONG EMOTIONS IS SOMETHING ARRIVING TO BLACK MAGIC.

NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD REMOTELY COMPARES TO THIS IN DEVOTION TO A GAME THE ANSWER TO THEIR SUPREMACY IS THE CONSTANT PRAYING THRO' OUT BRAZIL. IT IS A NATIONAL OCCUPATION.