# Puerto Rico : Its Past, Present and Promise

This film describes how Puerto Rico, with too many people and too few resources, created an industrial economy and emerged from colonial rule to self - government. Governor Luis Muños Marin here decsribes his "Operation Bootstrap" program, interviewed on-camera with director Bill Deneen. The script was written by noted novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1965
- Runtime: 19 min
- By: William Deneen
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/PuertoRicoItsPast-presentAndPromise)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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