Articles tagged with: Rio
Brilliant stop motion animation of Rio Carnival
“The City of Samba”, produced by Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit, is a stop motion with 168 thousand images taken during the 2011 Carnival days in Rio. The technique employed made everything look like miniatures. …
A 1930 beauty contest in Rio
This is a really fun collage of photos of the Brazilian and foreign girls that participated in an international beauty pageant in Rio in 1930. Interesting how the beauty ideal changed since (more about this …
Round-up of the 20 best sambas enredo of Rio’s carnival since the 40s
A little sample of the best sambas enredo composed in the last 70 years.
1 – Exaltação a Tiradentes (Império Serrano) – 1949 – Here sang by Elis Regina
Best moments of Brazilian soccer with Canal 100
During over four decades, all movies screened in the country were preceded by two video magazines, normally many months old – Cinejornal, created by documentarist Primo Carbonari, and Canal 100, produced by Carlos Niemeyer. The …
The best of four editions of Rock in Rio, the world’s biggest rock festival
The city of Rio hosted four editions of Rock in Rio, the biggest rock and pop festival of the planet: in 1985, 1991, 2001 and four months ago. In between, four editions happened in Lisbon …
Listen to 2012 Carnival sambas
Rádio UOL produced a podcast with 27 sambas enredos that will be the soundtrack of next Carnival parades both in São Paulo and Rio. Among them, Beija Flor’s “São Luis – Poema Encantado do Maranhão”, …
