Resurrection of Cuban Architecture on Public Broadcasting

[Roger]

Tonight I watched a Public Broadcasting special on the architecture of the Cuban School of Arts that was born in the creative early days of the Cuban Revolution. Then construction was brought to a halt as the lyrical forms of the early revolution fell under the influence of passionless Soviet group think. Following that the abandoned project began to be reclaimed by nature. Then some sort of divine revelation came to Castro and he freely admitted that it was a mistake to stop the construction. He said he had been misadvised, and so he had. So he ordered the project revived and some buildings came to fruition. But world economic collapse and two devastating hurricanes caused him to flip flop like an American politician and parts of the school reverted back to the status of modern ruins. The program was originally in Spanish with English subtitles added later. So as long as the bottom of the screen was occupied with dark subject matter the subtitles were readable. But when the bottom of the screen was light the titling was all but gone. I speak a little Spanish which helped, but my brain lagged behind the content on the screen. So although I enjoyed the program I also got a headache from reading white on white titles. Have any of you seen the program? What did you think of it?

[pbacot]

Thanks Roger. I'll look for it. Surprised PBS didn't fix it up before broadcast. As a documentary there must be ample places to provide English voice-over anyway.