1960s / 1970s SOUTH AFRICA TOURISM PROMO FILM “GOLDEN TRANSVAAL” JOHANNESBURG PARKS XD49974

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1960s/1970s promo film “Golden Transvaal“ was directed and produced by John Da Silva. It promotes South Africa and its national parks. It dates to the apartheid era. Film opens with a South African Airways jet plane, a Boeing 707, landing on tarmac. Main title: “South African Tourist Corporation Transvaal.“ Planes taxi on tarmac (0:37). Passengers exit planes. “Jan Smuts Airport” from outside (now Tambo Airport, 0:36). Various shots of planes on tarmac during opening credits, Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. Air Madagascar (1:02). KLM, TAP, Pan Am, El Al airline logos visible. Airline employees in action, unloading luggage, seeing off passengers (flight attendants). A bus embarks onto highway (1:30), then pulls to curb. Miner’s Monument statue, zoom out to city (aerial). Aerial shots of city. A woman walks down city street full of skyscrape