This clip is from a film about the explorer Hernan Cortes (also spelled Cortez). It begins with a WS of a 16th (sixteenth) century ship moving through the open water of the ocean. Various WS of the ship. A CU of a portrait of Cortez. Cuts back to a WS of the ship. Various POV shots looking at the ocean and the shores of Mexico. A shot of an anchor dropping into the water. A POV shot from a boat going up river.