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Video: Amazing 1910 Boat Trip From Italy To Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Leopoldina
@leopoldina
8 years ago
280 posts

This astonishingly rare and high-quality film shows the trip of a bunch of Italian emigrants as they make their way to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Don't think we would see anybody willingly emigrate to Rio in modern times.

(For some reason I can't add the video, neither to the Videos section or here on this post, so I'll leave a screenshot that you can click to go and watch it at the source. Let's pretend this is a functioning video player)

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Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d43_1470261090#CmeGJY5S2IzzV9R4.99


updated by @leopoldina: 13 Jan 2017 11:21:34PM
Lady Leena Fandango
@lady-leena-fandango
8 years ago
358 posts

While watching the video, I was astonished to see them lowering and lifting people in that wicker basket like cage to and from the ship ..... um noooo I would be terrified. A very cool film though! :-)