Progress Island U.S.A.

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Progress Island U.S.A. is a 1973 Promotional short that extols the benefits of traveling, living and starting your business in Puerto Rico. Interestingly, the short repeatedly highlights the similarities of Puerto Rico to the rest of the United States.

Compare with Assignment: Venezuela, another Latin-American travelogue short.

For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page.

Tropes used in Progress Island U.S.A. include:

• Insistent Terminology: Throughout the short, the narrator refers to Puerto Rico as Progress Island.
• The Seventies
• Zeerust:
  • Record players and DEC PDP-11 computers are highlighted as products of Puerto Rico's cutting edge industry.
  • Of note is what is perhaps a sculpture of a transistor outside of DEC's factory.