Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru 1950

This is some of the earliest color footage of Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru taken in June and July of 1950. 
The film begins at a railroad station with people in a cattle car and men on the roof playing instruments. 
A woman spins at a busy marketplace. The camera pans a narrow steep gorge approaching Machu Picchu revealing terrace farming on side of steep mountain, the valley at base of Machu Picchu, sunrise over terrace farms and ruins, and water coming out of " princess" quarters. Inca stone buildings amid terrace forms on high steep side of mountain near the peak. The camera tracks the view from the plane back to Lima looking southeast toward the mountains.

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 Full length footage can be seen at http://www.archive.org

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• inca
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• railroad
• market

[cezarix]

3.38 alguna vez viajé en esos panorámicos.

[MachuPicchuTours]

That is beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!

Saludos from MACHU PICCHU Peru!

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[EmilyBriset]

Cuzco es una maravilla del Perú y sus valles preciosos

[VWGustavo]

Excelente documental; salvo por el ferrocarril antiguo y algunos utensilios que usa la vendedora de comida, pareciera que es una filmación muy actual.

[rschemel]

Speechless!!!!!!!!

[77GSlinger]

Nice stone blocks at 4:51 and at 6:14. Anyone want to explain how they were made?

Clearly there are two very differnent styles of architecture seen here in this film. One is huge finished megalithic blocks and the other is the modern Inca ruins constructed of rubble size stones. The masonry is simple and does not remotely resemble the ancient blocks of finelt finshed and rounded stones.

The Incas were modern squatters on this ancient building site which predated them by 12 thousand years.

[bunker2k1]

i have read that most of the caves have been clocked by the gvt becasue people where getting lost in them. but there is some open but you kind of have to sneel into them.

[Spinmayaeduardo]

Speechless!!!!!!!!

10!!!!!!!!

[wangtang2k]

Most are protected by the Peruvian Department of Tourism, though there was a time while I was living there when people would try to access those places only to find either a dead-end or worse yet, death due to the deterioration over the centuries. Of course that's just urban-legend as far as I know but still makes you wonder what would happen if we could just explore any cave we want in ruins that still have undocumented terrain beyond what's been discored thus far.

[GordonMorrice]

Can the caves at Cuzco be accessed?