Breathtaking early film of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from over 100 years ago

Panorama of Rio de Janeiro (1909) Views of Rio before Christ the Redeemer came to dominate the scene. Subscribe: This is an incomplete travelogue originally entitled Views of Rio de Janeiro by the French Gaumont Company in 1909. It shows views of Rio’s sea wall, a tree-lined canal, the famous Carioca aqueduct across which a tram is passing and the ascent of a small steam train up the Corcovado mountain railway. Corcovado railway would be electrified the very next year, whil
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