Swing and Sway Trinidad Way, 1960s

A tour of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the 1960s.To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at [e-mail]. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

[@kennedywong9854]

🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 God bless T&T and make it great again. 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@stillirise7813]

Indeed! We were the greatest island in the Caribbean.

[@Dragonfire-ry4dy]

OMG i was just a kid back then, Now in my 60s i could only reminisce in the time back then. So peacefull. I just remember all the fun i had back then. I walked 3 miles to and from school and was free to roam around on weekends. Thanks for sharing.

[@geraldgerald9828]

Thank you Angela for the corrections.Glad to see Messrs Mc Intyre, Commodore Steele,and Nickolas Neckles.Whose great grand daughter is my God daughter.Gerald Amoroso of Trinidad August 2021

[@GiselleSandy]

Beautiful video...Omg...What a boxing day gift seeing this footage..The fisherman bringing in the fish and gutting them is my deceased father...He has been dead almost 21 years now....God rest his beautiful soul. May he continue to R.I.P.P. He would have loved this video...

[@shjakes]

I am happy for you. That must have been a beautiful surprise and no doubt a priceless gift.

[@GiselleSandy]

shjakes indeed it was....awww been 22 yrs since he died.

[@omalone1169]

Giselle Sandy it seemed so much better under colonial rule but need more carnival footage

[@geraldgerald9828]

@@omalone1169 Great family history.

[@the204cool]

Hi Giselle

[@leeleeq]

My childhood in the 1950's and 1960's!

[@rishirishiroopnarine5067]

Lee Qarib THE GOOD OLD DAYS

[@kevonjames804]

03:24 TRINI woman looking good from long time

[@rishirishiroopnarine5067]

Kevon James All THE TIME

[@habibahahmad9317]

Beautiful country my country sweet T&T

[@ellenmorton3444]

I'm related to the Alexis and Steel families of Grenada and many others, some had owned islands in the Grenadines

[@radhamaharaj2456]

I love to go back in time peaceful and wondefjl

[@stillirise7813]

Not happening, cherish your memories like I do.

[@angelalumwai6164]

"Swing & sway the Trinidad way." I thank this person for this video. However, please be mindful of some important inaccuracies. The natives of Trinidad &Tobago were the Caribs and Arawak Indians that inhabited the twin island and some of the main lands of South America where they originated from. The Arawaks ( who fought against the savagery of the Spanish ),became almost extinct after Christopher Colombus arrival on the twin island. However, some of the Caribs survived and are now mixed with other racial groups who were brought to Trinidad, as s result of colonisation. All the people that now inhabit the island of Trinidad & Tobago came from other continents and are not native to the island. Mount Saint Benedict is a monastery not a convent. It is the island's Catholic seminary. In 1960, Catholicism was the major religion, practiced in Trinidad, but not in Tobago.

[@cathyhdhq5639]

Angela, I am thankful too. I do appreciate your corrections, very inciteful.

[@geraldgerald9828]

Thank you Angela for the corrections..Glad to have seen messer Steele.McIntre and Nickolas Neckles.His great granddaughter is my Goddaughter..Gerald Amoroso of Trinidad..

[@bacilluscereus1299]

Nowadays even calling them Caribs and Arawak is disputed. Arie Boomert has some important literature published on the subject. IIRC my grandmother's last name was Amoroso, she might have been from Santa Flora, I will check.

[@stillirise7813]

I like Carib beer 🍺 😋

[@estherrajballi247]

Nostalgic down memory lane.

[@shjakes]

Thank you for the footage of two of the most beautiful places in the world...Tobago & Grenada, (their people make that a fact !) With boundless blue skies, blue seas and the greatest 'bIue food' ☺....I hope I can retire on one of those islands.

[@Ajm833]

shjakes 😒

[@ldramsay-overall1257]

😞😞😞

[@bacilluscereus1299]

the goat race was different back then. 15:10

[@angelalumwai6164]

I don't know what the narrator mean by natives. Everyone in Trinidad &Tobago ancestory is from another continent. The natives of these islands were the Caribs Indian. They were slaughtered by Christopher Colombus and his men. Some of whom survived and intermarried and still living in Trinidad, Dominica and St Vincent.

[@stillirise7813]

He preferred little boys 👦

[@therealblaze69]

Best Video.. Thanks Alot Uploader :)

[@CarnivalVillage]

Awesome! #cultureliveshere

[@penelopewelch7581]

Very unpretentious and unscripted almost. Nothing but personal views and the basic history he is aware of. Very refreshing.

[@bacilluscereus1299]

I wish he had indicated a few more location s tho.

[@vernsmith7821]

really old!!!!! Things are not like that today I can tell you.

[@kevonjames2621]

3:30 was this bosie singh club?

[@LukeCageforhire]

pre independence I guess.

[@luzurquhart3456]

This cannot be 12 years ago. More like 50 years.

[@sethbrown9246]

The narrator gets so many details wrong. The cocoa pod is what turns yellow, NOT the beans. The beans are inside the pod, not the other way around. Also, that club with the dancers was the strangest thing I have ever seen. Indian dancers do NOT dance to brass and steel band instruments. Indian music has different drums and their own instruments. Source: I live in an Indian village in Trinidad. Also, I have never even heard of dancing on broken glass. That must have been something dreamed up to entertain tourists. I, of course, could be wrong. I was a child in the 1960s and did not frequent nightclubs :)

[@lifeirony]

Trinidad look better under British rule than niw under Duncey Rowley

[@stillirise7813]

If you want British rule go to Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@emmanuelwillson3316]

I bet you is ah indian

[@terrysookhoo2528]

Look how nice n everyone as one

[@stillirise7813]

​@emmanuelwillson3316 Yuh don know, it's only indian 🇮🇳 and jamaican that criticize our beautiful ironic and unique island. Trini till my casket drops.

[@bennettstephenson9090]

i don't know why trinidadian eat them one of nature's beautiful lizards who deserves to be free without been eaten by humans

[@stillirise7813]

Every day all day.😋

[@brendon-tx2fy]

It was better under Britain rule

[@vicmatthias4515]

Why let a foreigner corrupt the true happening in Trinidad and Tobago. He is off with his story. We will not let someone who do not know exactly the history,

[@HostileLemons]

What's wrong with the story then? I see no problem.

[@justinseheult]

I have a strong feeling he didnt really need permission...

[@ellenmorton3444]

I know the history of my country Trinidad and Tobago and know what is accurate, the narrator is not well informed however the vedio was refreshing

[@josephmccaffrey9811]

Hey stupidee,the man provided the film,what did you do?