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GUATEMALA!
DR. GILBERT W. SCHWARTZ, ACL
Photographs courtesy Pan American World Airways System
AURORA AIRPORT, gateway to the capital at Guatemala City, provides an excellent establishing shot, says author, for your film.
NATIVE MARKETS, always lively and colorful, are a movie making must throughout Guatemala. Couple's gag apes Indian transportation.
ANCIENT ANTIGUA, left, destroyed by earthquake in 1773, still boasts lovely Church of Our Lady of La Merced. Note framing effect.
COLOR? Why, friend, you've never seen color, physical or cultural, until you've been to Guatemala! Lake Atitlan and its constantly changing colors, encircled by lofty volcanos, will awe you. The ladies of the fountain in Antigua will startle you and make you laugh. And Chichicastenango, the place where time stops, will give you an experience that will never be forgotten. So, for your next vacation trip, go to Guatemala!
IN PREPARATION
Go to your travel agency. It will plan your trip from the time you leave the United States until you return home, covering such items as air travel, a guide (a necessity), a car (the only way to get around), advance hotel reservations (a must) and meals at a flat rate. There's a saving of close to forty percent this way over trying to make the trip on your own.
It will also obtain your Guatemala tourist card. You must have a vaccination certificate or you won't be able to come home. Also, a birth certificate or army discharge will certify your American citizenship.
FILM AND CAMERA You can take all the film and camera accessories you care to. But all must be declared and a bill of sale shown to the U. S. Customs at the last station before leaving this country. I took 800 feet of 16mm. Kodachrome with me and found that I had just about enough. The only color film I found available in Guatemala was Ansco Color. Prices are about a dollar higher than in the United States. If your trip will not be an extended one (three months or more), the wisest thing is to carry your exposed reels with you and send them in for processing when you return home. Should you find it necessary or desirable to ship ahead, air mail is not only fastest but safest. There will be no U. S. customs duty, in either case.
Here's all you'll want to know on traveling and taking pictures in
this Central American treasure land