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Looking at Lisbon

Looking at Lisbon

Genres

Documentary

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

9 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

26 December 1953

Country

United States of America

Cast

James A. FitzPatrick

James A. FitzPatrick

Narrator (voice)

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