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cut features and piercing eyes, Bartholomew de Las Casas, careless of his books and lessons, dreams of adventure which ever since Columbus's discovery, is the passion that engrosses all Spain. He gazes sadly at the court yards and the dreary halls His eyes are fixed on distant horizons.
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A street in front of the University. The students pour forth gaily. Close to the entrance gate a group of men surround a wounded sailor who wears his arm in a sling and leans on a crutch. They listen agape to the story of the sailor, who had travelled with Columbus and is just back from the New World. Bartholomew de Las Casas is arrested by his words and joins the group.
The sailor tells of strange and marvellous things and Bartholomew beholds :
Third picture Sturdy caravels with painted sails, scudding before the wind.
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{Close up) The deck of a caravel. Sailors on the yards. The Admiral's eyes are fixed on the horizon.
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The sea. The waves. In the distance a thin strip of land, that grows clearer and larger. Trees and mountains come into view.
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The narrator mimics the enthusiasm of the sailors, flings his cap into the air, tries a step or two of a jig. His listeners hearken with a wondering smile. Las Casas beholds the new land as in a dream. The books he is holding slip one by one from his hands.
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The tale proceeds. The Spaniards are seen landing. Naked natives, wearing striped plumes on their heads, hasten up to them, and gaze at them dumbfounded ; they finger their dress and signify their surprise. One of the officers addresses them. They cannot understand. He makes signs that they want food. The Indians promptly run off to a village, which can be discerned among the trees, and bring back fruit, vegetables, and chickens. The joy of the sailors. The Indian Chief, attired in a mantle made of feathers, approaches the officer and salutes him.
a champion and precursor of anti-slavery and the humanitarian ideas of modern times, and proclaimed the necessity of peaceful conquest.
All this is clearly set forth in the cinematographic summary contributed to the Review by Marcel Brion, which we publish in the conviction that nothing is more educative from the social and moral standpoint than a worthy and living film rendering of the example offered us by the life and action of men who are an honour to mankind.