Is the camera moving faster than the speed of light?

Is the camera escaping a black hole?

Then it’s not impossible, just difficult and convoluted.

What's impossible is people in a cigar factory taking a break.

It's all done by wires

Apparently this film was shot on infra-red film. Film thats sensitive to visible *and* infra-red light. So it has a different look to what you would be used to. Stuff that would look different would be the sky, water, peoples complexions.

Raúl Rodríguez, Assistant cameraman ...

Urusevsky wanted the film images to be a synthesis of Cuba. Each individual frame should shine like a sugar crystal, transforming the green of palm trees and sugarcane into tones of silver. To capture the Caribbean light he used an infrared negative which at that time was restricted solely to the use of the Soviet army.

Alexander "Sacha" Calzatti, Camera operator ...

It took me several months to go from Moscow to the city where the film negative was made. It was made in a factory that produced military material. It was made in the same factory that produced the negatives for filming the other side of the moon. The infrared film creates a very strong visual effect which is difficult to control. The trick here is that the negative is panchromatic. Some chemicals are added to make it more sensitive to infrared light.