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US congressman celebrates Hemingway legacy in Cuba
A US congressman visited Ernest Hemingway's former home near Havana on Monday to celebrate a joint US-Cuban effort to preserve and digitise the Nobel Prize-winning author's personal effects.
Island curators gave Jim McGovern, the...
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Cubans celebrate reaching final
1. Wide shot people at bar watching game on television
2. Close-up of television showing coverage of game
3. Wide shot people at bar clapping
4. Medium shot of people clapping
5. Close-up of television showing coverage of game
6. Pan...
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Coco Rocha, Dree Hemingway attend Diesel show during NY Fashion Week
Lots of leather and lots of jeans hit the runway at the Diesel show in New York Tuesday (11 FEB).
Diesel founder Renzo Rosso calls it their "magic touch" the way they transform the materials into their signature vintage looks.
Pair the...
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Mixologists whip up giant daiquiri in tavern where tropical cocktail was born
Cuba's fervour for Ernest Hemingway was in full display on Saturday as islanders and visitors alike paid tribute to the Nobel laureate by mixing what they hope will be the world's largest daiquiri in Havana.
Cuban mixologists whipped up...
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Lookalikes of famed author pay tribute at the 14th International Hemingway Colloquium
1. Wide of monument to US author Ernest Hemingway surrounded by locals and foreign visitors, UPSOUND "Guantanamera" song
2. Hemingway look-alikes shouting (Spanish) "Viva Hemingway" (long live Hemingway)
3. Reverse shot of Hemingway...
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CUBA: ANNUAL HAVANA CUP SAILING REGATTA
English/Nat
The fourth annual Havana Cup sailing regatta has taken place in Cuba.
More than 230 yachts from the United States cruised into the Marina Hemingway for the event which attracts sailors from all over the world.
Americans...
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Filming has finally wrapped on what producers say is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.
Filming has finally wrapped on what producers say is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.
An international film crew in recent weeks has been re-enacting...
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Hotel Nacional, a celebrity favorite, celebrates 80th year
Havana - 29 Dec 2010
1. Wide of bus driving towards front entrance of Hotel Nacional
2. Various exteriors
3. Tilt down from porch ceiling detail to stairs and tourists
4. Various lobby interiors
5. Tilt down from tourists to large floor...
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CUBA: FISHERMEN COLLECT BRONZE TO MAKE BUST OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Spanish/Nat
More than three decades after his death, residents of a Cuban fishing town remember American writer Ernest Hemingway as a legendary figure in their history.
The town of Cojimar- off the coast of Havana- was Hemingway's...
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Iconic Hotel Nacional celebrates 80th birthday
1. Wide of bus driving towards front entrance of Hotel Nacional
2. Various exteriors
3. Tilt down from porch ceiling detail to stairs and tourists
4. Various lobby interiors
5. Tilt down from tourists to large floor tile reading "Hotel...
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Rare visit to Hemingway's former home
1. Pan right exterior Ernest Hemingway's former home, "Finca Vigia"
2. Wide shot interior living room
3. Wide shot library and desk
4. Close up typewriter
5. Close up reading glasses and books
6. Close up picture of Hemingway on set of...
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CUBA: BRAND OF CIGAR NAMED AFTER LEAF GROWER ALEJANDRO ROBAINA
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A Cuban tobacco grower is to become a household name among cigar aficionados after officials in the country named a brand of cigar after him.
The new Robaina cigar is called after 78-year-old Alejandro Robaina, Cuba's...
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Start of 20th Hemingway Regata launched from Havana
1. Wide of crew onboard boat preparing for regatta
2. Mid of competitor folding sail
3. Wide of sailors on boat
4. Pan of boat departing
5. Wide of Jose Miguel Diaz, Commodore of Hemingway Yacht Club, on marina
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)...
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Iconic bar marks 70th anniversary, plans to expand into Europe
1. Close up of guitarist playing song outside entrance to Bodeguita del Medio bar in Havana
2. Close up of banner announcing 70 year anniversary of the bar
3. Mid wide crowd of tourists outside bar
4. Mid of bartender preparing mojito...
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CUBA: COUNTRY REMEMBERS ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Cuba remembered Ernest Hemingway on Wednesday with respect, affection and not a little gratitude.
He lent his fame to bars, hotels and beaches that now draw planeloads of tourists to the island nation.
Fans of...
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20th Hemingway Regata sails in Havana
HEADLINE: 20th Hemingway Regata sails in Havana
CAPTION: A rare yachting regatta took place in Cuba on Friday to mark the twentieth anniversary of a local yacht club named after the American writer Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Cuba for...
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Photo exhibition with picture of Fidel Castro looking healthier than other pix
1. Pan left ballroom Hotel Nacional with pictures of Fidel Castro on display
2. Zoom in most-recent picture of Fidel Castro taken by son Alex Castro
3. Three portraits of Castro including most recent
4. Zoom in several historical...
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Procession honours island''s patron saint, cardinal on Pope
1. Wide of police security on motorbikes leading statue of Cuba''s patroness, Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, arriving for parade
2. Pan right from statue to Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, and people in procession,...
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50 year anniversary of historic meeting between Fidel and Hemingway
It has been half a century since two of the most iconic figures of their time met in the small Cuban fishing village of Cojimar, just 8 kilometres east of Havana, and local residents will never forget about the historic encounter that...
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Locals divided over casino company's plans to lure tourists to tiny archipelago
Residents of a small chain of Bahamas islands renowned for their unspoilt nature and remoteness remain divided over plans to develop the area into a grand casino destination estimated to cost some 300 (m) million US dollars.
Bimini, an...
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Grandchildren arrive to study Hemingway's fishing logs as possible source of data
The grandsons of one of America's most famous authors - Ernest Hemingway - started a five-day mission in a Cuban village on Monday, hoping to improve US-Cuba ties and gain access to Hemingway's aging fishing logs.
The logs may be a...
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Gregorio Fuentes, captain of Hemingway's boat dies
Havana, Cuba, - July 21, 1999
1. Wide of Casa La Vigia, Hemingway's residence
2. Shot of the interior of the house from the window
3. Hemingway's bedroom in his house
4. Shot of Hemingway's desk
5. Shot of the dinning room
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Father and son make waxworks of 11 personalities
1. Top shot of wax artist, Rafael Barros walking in backyard
2. Barrios feeding ducks and chickens
3. Zoom in of exterior of second-story workshop
4. Shot through window of Leander Barrios working inside workshop
5. Travelling shot...
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American tourists get to explore Cuba
There's a change in the air in Cuba as relations warm between the United States administration and the Cuban government. The US administration has eased travel restrictions and opened a wide range of new export opportunities with the...