ZANZIBAR

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 367539).

Synopsis

Zanzibar: city scenes, clove growing, coconut growing, etc.

Coast. City streets, passers-by, merchants. Metalworkers, basket-makers, food sellers, drinking tea and coffee. (?)Government buildings. Doorways with ornate Islamic decorations. Native fishing vessels in the port. Clove(?) plantations, picking and drying cloves on mats in the sun. Unloading food from warehouses, clove nursery. Wealthy sheikh at home. Climbing a palm tree. Husking and splitting coconuts. A giant tortoise being harried by men; carrying a man on its back. Zanzibar airport, East African Airways, a plane taxiing. Dignitaries at a wreath laying ceremony. A dhow off a palm fringed shore.

 

Titles

  • ZANZIBAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1959
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
764 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Photography
RANKIN, Niall
 

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