# ROADS FOR ALL AMERICA

ROADS FOR ALL AMERICA Produced: 1926 Description Documents the South American tour of the Pan American Highway Commission. Reel 1, the Commissioners depart from Washington, D.C., and New York harbor (aboard the liner Santa Ana). They dock and sightsee in Panama. Shows Latin American visitors to the U.S. inspecting highways in North Carolina. Personages: President Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, President Chiari. Reel 2, the Commission sails to Valparaiso, Chile, and arrives at Santiago, stopping en route at Talara, Mollendo, and Arica, Peru. Shows ship loadings, large flights of guans, and highway scenes. Personages: Ambassador Poindexter, President Augusto Leguia, R/Adm. Latimer (aboard U.S.S. Rochester), and Gen. Pershing (pres. of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission). Reel 3 shows sites in Santiago and in Mendoza and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Includes views of the Andes. Personages: Ambassador Collier, President Alessandri. Reel 4, the First Pan American Congress of Highways opens in Buenos Aires. Shows types of roads in Argentina and scenes of life in the pampas. The Commission arrives at Rosario. Personages: President Alvear, Ambassador Jay. Reel 5, the group travels to Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. Includes scenes of roads in Uruguay, coffee loading at Santos, a snake farm at Sao Paulo, and a Brazilian coffee plantation. Shows President Serrato. Reel 6 shows scenic views of Rio de Janeiro and vicinity, including Sugar Loaf…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1926
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-281-r4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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