GIBRALTAR AND TANGIER
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 490737).
Synopsis
TRAVELOGUE. Section from a film detailing a journey from Gibraltar and through Africa (?).
No main title. Travelling shot passing the harbour of Gibraltar (17). Location map of Gibraltar (24). Travelling shot of dhow with coastline in background (32). Location map of Tangier (38). Views of Tangier (63). HS of market place with crowds of people, pan up to tower (80). Closer view of scenes in the market; a woman buys produce from a stall; women seated on the ground selling goods cover their faces; a man paces up and down lecturing (?) to a group of people. In the background two signs read `Cooperative Francaise' and `Bible Society' (142). Soldiers march through an alley (153). MS two children (163). Children by a drinking fountain (174). A vegetable market stall (189). MS boy (198). Street trader cooking food (207). A donkey train by a well; Arabs fill containers with water (221). CU camel's face (229). Donkey train scenes as before (238). The donkey train and pedestrians walking along a beach, in the background is Tangier (?) (276ft).
Titles
- GIBRALTAR AND TANGIER (Archive)
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1921
- Running Time:
- 3 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm Film
- Colour:
- Black/White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 276 ft