Farm activities in Morocco. Women and girls, some on ladders, pick citrus fruits from trees in an orchard. The fruit is transferred to wooden crates. Women and girls carry baskets, filled with fruit, on their heads. Women, carrying babies on their backs, pick fruit
Group of workers walk beside a farmer plowing a field with a disc cultivator pulled by a D6 Caterpillar diesel tractor. The manual workers appear to be discarding clumps of grass or other undesired material. In contrast, two other farmers are seen plowing nearby using primitive wooden plows pulled by horses. One of them stops to repair his wooden plow, striking it with a stone to tighten it.
Representatives of various groups meet with U.S. Consul at the American Consulate Building in Casablanca, Morocco, in World 'War 2. 1942 model cars parked in front of the consulate building. A brass plate on building reads 'American Consulate General.' Attendees stand around a conference table as U.S. Consul, Russell Mott Brooks, enters the conference room accompanied by several members of his staff.. He motions to visitors to sit, as he sits at the conference table, flanked by intelligence officer, Jerome s. Nusbaum and another staff member. The visiting leaders are seated across from him. Several persons occupy chairs away from the table. Brooks begins by making a few remarks. He then listens to what the various leaders have to say. One speaks briefly. Then a lawyer, wearing French legal robes with a white jabot round his neck hanging down the front of his robes, makes what appears to be an earnest appeal of some kind. Among others participating is a man in a robe, wearing a fez. A woman secretary makes notes during the discussions.
The Sultan of Morocco, Mohammad V, on his throne, attending to official matters in his palace. He deals with several written documents, with his assistant. Change of scene shows him at his desk working with a male secretary who brings him documents to sign.
Mohamed (Muhammad) Ben Youssef (Mohamed V), Sultan of Morocco, walks through a garden with friends. A gardener, using a watering can, pauses to bow, as the Sultan walks past. The Sultan escorts his party past a pool of water associated with a structure being built on the grounds. He converses with a construction worker. Together, they climb partially completed steps of the building and examine the work. Later, the sultan and his son, Moulay Hassan, place small pieces of tile in a complicated mosaic, part of the structure.
Mohamed V, Sultan of Morocco, drives family members, in a custom built open, convertible car, with jeep-like grill and hood, but otherwise custom-styled body, equipped with full white walled tires. They drive through sand where a Royal Garden is being constructed. The Sultan converses with supervisor and workers who are operating a manual irrigation pump. The Sultan tastes the water coming out of the pump.
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