Building Brasília
Here's a clip taken from a longer 1960s US documentary film on Brazil – this section here concerns itself with the building of Brasília, the modernist city. The city was planned by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. There's lots of footage of three of Niemeyer's most famous landmarks: the towering National Congress of Brazil, the extravagant Palácio da Alvorada and Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Aparecida.
Ignore the terrible, patrician and vaguely racist commentary, on the 'primitive peoples' etc, the footage of the construction of the great monuments of Brasília is fascinating, and it's great to see bits of the city bright and new (well, behind the murk and crackles of the old film stock at least).
Worth a look, even if you have to hold your nose at the commentary.
Ignore the terrible, patrician and vaguely racist commentary, on the 'primitive peoples' etc, the footage of the construction of the great monuments of Brasília is fascinating, and it's great to see bits of the city bright and new (well, behind the murk and crackles of the old film stock at least).
Worth a look, even if you have to hold your nose at the commentary.
Is there supposed to be a link to the clip?
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