What a hoot! I'm old enough to remember newsreels shown before the start of movies with announcers that sounded remarkably similar. I once read a story by Tim Cahill about visiting Canaima National Park in Venezuela. The story included a bit of history about the American pilot that "discovered" Angel Falls. I imagine Jimmy Angel flying over the tepuis in a cub (OK he was flying a MUCH larger Metal Aircraft Corp G-2-W Flamingo) with that same announcer doing the voiceover. Dang I'd like to fly down there! Bareboat sailing charters are pretty common around the world. I just wish there were a similar business model for STOL aircraft...

I watched this film twice because some things bothered me. Dumping Parathion with a bucket, almost at eye level without at least wearing goggles, is really dumb. I think the film director had more say here than the boss who owned the airplanes. Coming down the river and climbing up to the field, there is no way, without a lot of flaggers, anyone could line up on the right swath row. When he dipped under the tree, he was down on the crop and there was a dip in the field that he followed. He wasn't dipping down at the last minute; bad form. There were a lot of coordinated turns in the field, a big no no. We make only cross controlled rudder turns in the field or anywhere in ground effect. We don't want to put a wing down into the crop or anything.

well contact,
lets consider the era. and culture of that time, as well as the fact that South American technique development may have lagged behind that of those further north. I'm not a bit surprised.
I talked to a Argentine pilot that described them still hauling sacks of wet rice up the wing to load the airplane
and the video of rope starting an Impanema (?).
how ever I must admire those pilots courage.

Yes. We do. Many crop dusters learned by trial and error. I liked Billy Howell but, like many ag schools do, he took advantage of our training system not accepting maneuvering flight as normal and training all pilots to do it safely.

Columbia's crop of "cotton" ? crazy stuff that flying..