Rio de Janeiro 1977 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Brazil in 1977. It contains stock footage of Rio de Janeiro: (00:00 - 00:13) panoramas of the streets and buildings from the hotel window; (00:14 - 01:00) the footage begins at Praia do Flamengo avenue, then goes thru Aterro do Flamengo, crosses Túnel do Pasmado (there is another tunnel to be crossed before reaching to Copacabana—it’s the Túnel Novo, that doesn’t appear in the footage) and finally reaches Copacabana; (01:01 - 04:55) Ipanema Beach and Vieira Souto Avenue. In the sequence, several daily scenes on Praça General Osório, one of the two main squares in Ipanema where many craftsmen show and sell their art; (04:56 - 05:47) Ipanema Beach; (05:48 - 07:00) footage taken from a hotel or apartment room in the Catete neighborhood (although Catete is considered South Zone, there are no beaches there but Flamengo Beach can be reached on foot by a 10 minute journey. Nevertheless, Flamengo Beach is polluted and it is not recommended for sun bathing. There are a lot of hotels in Catete: they are cheaper than those of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. That’s why many tourists prefer them. At 06:14 you can see the name of one of those hotels: Hotel Ferreira Viana); (07:01 - 07:17) Praia do Flamengo; a woman coming from the beach (until the fifties, Flamengo had only the beach and was not polluted yet. Then an enormous landfill was made, and Aterro do Flamengo was born in the sixties. It’s a 1,2 million square meter park, and many people go there not because of the beach, but to scroll in the park, although the beach already exists and some mad people bathe in it); (07:30) Metropolitan Cathedral, Igreja da Glória (Glória Church, built in 1739); (07:59) the aerial cable car going to the top of Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf); (08:50) views and scenes from the top terrace of the cable car (at 08:50, Enseada de Botafogo -Botafogo Cove - with its polluted beach; at 09:12, a front view of the Santos Dumont Airport runways; at 09:14, a partial view of the Ponte Rio-Niterói - Rio-Niterói Bridge; at 09:18, Niterói city in the far, across Guanabara Bay; at 10:17, Flamengo Beach; at 10:21, cars running on Aterro do Flamengo; at 10:56 Santa Cruz Fortress, the building near the bottom left corner is one of the several fortresses built to protect Rio from invasions; at 11:06, Praia Vermelha, a very dangerous beach because of the ocean currents); (12:58) the end of the Pão de Açúcar (at 13:21, Praça General Tibúrcio, where the aerial cable car begins its climb to Pão de Açúcar). Thanks to Mr Ribeiro for his detailed description. If you want to buy this footage to use it in your production please visit: If you want to buy segments of this footage to use it in your production, please visit: If you want to watch this video without watermark and advertising, please visit: If you want to scan and restore your own 8mm, super 8, , and 16mm films with the same technology that created this video, please visit: