Canary Islands Aka Las Palmas (1962) 

A fascinating film which tells us more about the audience in 1960s Britain than it does about Gran Canaria and its capital, Las Palmas. "There's little these islanders need to learn beyond making sun-shade hats and tying up tomatoes" Somewhat patronizing! And about as representative as a film called "Beautiful Britain" featuring a few remote potato farmers in Norfolk. But we love our "noble savage" myths! The cave houses, by the way, are now gentrified week-end cottages for yuppies, complete with expensive designer kitchens and super-fast broadband. So maybe this is indeed a glimpse of Paradise Lost.

And also I bet the cameraemn never forgot this experience. It was relaxing and stayedwith them forever

Tierra de Gran nobleza, valor, libertad y humana. Viva CANARIAS y su gente, hoy y siempre.

Las islas de mi ancestros ~ tan lejos, ahora.

Brilliant video. Seems so different now but if you know where to look you can still find a lot of these original traditions.

A wonderful, wonderful insight in to the island just before the package holiday boom changed everything... Thank you Pathé! We made a transcript of the film for anyone who'd like it: Transcript from the film: "It's springtime This is an island where perpetually it's springtime. You are on Pathé pictorials magic carpet once more, so tap your feet to the springtime rhythm of The Dance Just five jet hours away from the worries of our work-a-day world, this is a place where life means music and the mellow movement of a dance passed down through unchanging ages. Where life means sunshine and colour embroidered together here, where making dance dresses is the most urgent lesson in the infant schools. Not long ago there were no schools on this wonder Island, now, all round the year, the sun is the head teacher, and lessons are all in the open air. There's little these Islanders need to learn beyond making sun shade hats and tying up tomatoes, so they can export their winter sunshine, in tasty shape, to people who know what those strange things called Frost and Wintry Rain can really mean. Aren't you glad that you took this magic carpet ride? To an island where great plantations of banana reach right down from the old volcanic rocks to the very fringe of the deep blue sea. Bananas grow to tree height in a single season, when you cut them down and start again with the ground level sprouts they produce. Every single one has to have its flower cut away from it or it will never mature as a fruit but, for the rest, you can let nature do all your fruit producing work; no weeds can thrive in the cool shade of the banana leaf. The young bananas droop from their red seed pod. They turn a half circle upwards as they mature, and there's no set season. Bananas grow all the year round, here where its always spring. They're picked green for easy handling, not canary yellow as we know them. Which is surprising, because these are Canary Island Bananas; and this is the exciting travel centre of the fabulous Canary Isles. London, Leicester, Liverpool; they are all long, light years away from the peace at this place; yet you can be back there this afternoon. Las Palmas airport, it's deceiving. It's all so streamlined and modernistic, so 20th century and busy, it's hard to realise that it is the gateway to simple tranquility… The Romans discovered this island and called it Canariis, the Isle of Dogs, the Spaniards conquered and brought in donkeys to bring farming up-to-date. There was a bit of a rain shower here… (uhu..)three or four years ago. For water they depend on a few precious springs. Contrast, Island of contrasts The savage coastline the civilized beach. You've got your choice of beaches here on this holiday island. Beaches where you fight great waves for sheer happiness, and beaches where you fight for the bare necessities of life. The isle of eternal springtime has become the rough, romantic kind of island you find off the Irish coast; where strange forgotten people have to grapple with the elements for their existence. Without knowing it, without having any standard of comparison, they're poor, these fisher folk. Poor, by our civilized standards, but rich, perhaps, in the reality of their experience. Only a few of the fishermen own nets, the others get a smaller share of the catch, sardines for the most part, and chancy to say the least. They live on bread, and wild olives, and an odd banana, on those days when the nets are empty But no one starves an a land of endless Springtime. You wash your clothes in the water that comes from some fissure in the old volcanic rock. Dry them in the Sun that shines all through the winter, or in the soft trade wind that tempers the summer heat. You live, it maybe, in caves carved out into elaborate dwelling places, here where you never need more than a one-blanket-covering night. Try to exchange a semi-detached suburban house in Coventry or Cardiff for one of these cave houses in the Canary Islands and quite honestly the cave dwellers will laugh in your face. This, they will tell you, and you may enviously agree with them, is the simple, happy way of life that God ordained. Every vista is a throbbing surprise, a dancing delight to any visitor So tap your feet once more to that springtime rhythm, that beckoned you when our magic carpet first transported you to the Canary Islands and their dancing loveliness."

"There's little these islanders need to learn beyond making sun-shade hats and tying up tomatoes" aah, who doesn't miss unfiltered history by posh BBC Received Pronunciation. These people are "poor by our civilised standards" 4:55

Happy Canary Islands Day 2014 ~ Feliz Día de Canarias

Vive Amazigh ❤

1962 is the best year because it is the year that I was born

hermosa epoca donde no se ven gordos por ultraprocesados y comida basura,y donde las barcas que llegan son de pescadores y no de inmigrantes africanos ilegales. recien empezaban los pelotazos urbanisticos y la masificacion turistica y la destruccion de practicamente toda la costa española(incluyendo canarias y baleares).

The Romans did not “Discover” the Canary Islands. They were already inhabited my the indigenous Guanches of Berber/north African ancestry.

Amazigh

“There’s little these islanders need to learn.” 😳🤦🏻‍♂️ Arrogance of the time, I suppose.

I will see the natural version next time I go..

Jet2 are using the same plane in this film

Im Cuban, and this is my DNA according to ancestry Spain 42% Portugal 33% Northern Africa 5% France 4% Scotland 4% Basque 3% Ireland 3% Indigenous Cuba 2% Senegal 1% Benin and Togo 1% Cameroon, Congo and western Bantu people 1% Indigenous America Yucatán peninsula 1%

Father and grandfather's were born there. White as you can be but the sun wouldn't give them a them ..I'm just saying I'm super white genetic

Moors