# PAN AM WORLD AIRWAYS 1960s SOUTH AMERICA TRAVELOGUE CONTINENT OF CONTRASTS 51354

“South America - Continent of Contrasts” is a circa 1960s color film focusing on the aforementioned continent served by Pan American World Airways and its offshoot Panagra. Pan American-Grace Airways, better known as Panagra, was an airline formed as a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and Grace Shipping Company. Panagra was founded in 1929 to compete with SCADTA, a German-owned company, and held a quasi-monopoly over air travel in parts of Colombia and South America during the 1940s and 1950s. It merged with Braniff International Airways in 1967. Hundreds of years before it became a tourist destination, Incas called South America home (mark 01:57 ) and constructed the equivalent of 10,000 miles highways, remnants of which still exist as the camera pans across them and onto to what were once Incan cities. Today, we are told, descendants of Spanish soldiers, Portuguese fisherman, and others still travel to South America — only this time as tourists. After a few scenes in Panama the film takes the viewer to Quito, the capital of Ecuador (mark 05:10 ). “a city dyed with the color of Spain.” We see plazas and churches “bearing the reflections of Barcelona and Madrid.” Following are street scenes and beach scenes from Lima, Peru starting at mark 06:20 as tourists soak in the sunshine and we watch generations of families work silver (mark 08:00 ) and visit a country market. By mark 12:15 we’re taken high into the Andes Mountains in the Cusco Region of Peru to see…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Travel, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/51354PanAMSouthAmericaContinentOfContrasts)
- 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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