sentences:  The film included live-action documentary sequences featuring footage of modern Latin American cities with skyscrapers and fashionably dressed residents.This surprised many contemporary US viewers, who associated such images only with US and European cities, and contributed to a changing impression of Latin America.Film historian Alfred Charles Richard Jr. has commented that "Saludos Amigos" "did more to cement a community of interest between peoples of the Americas in a few months than the State Department had in fifty years".