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.