Looking at Lisbon

Name: Looking at Lisbon
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1953-12-26
Duration: 9 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: James A. FitzPatrick

19539m

★ 7.0

Documentary

This quick look at Lisbon begins with aerial footage of the port city as the off-screen narrator provides some history of a seafaring, colonizing nation, of destructive earthquakes, and of contemporary construction. Then it's on to famous buildings and monuments, a look at female fishmongers who ply neighborhoods with baskets of fish on their heads, a survey of two nearby resort areas, watching a town's annual running of the bulls, and a visit to a bullfight, where the bulls are not killed.

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Cast

James A. FitzPatrick

Narrator (voice)

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