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Street performers entertain spectators in Marrakesh, Morocco
"Snake charmer" performs with cobra snakes, for spectators, in the Jemaa el-Fnaa square and market area in Marrakech, Morocco. He holds two hooded cobras and dances with them. Several musicians playing flutes and drums, accompany him. View from further away shows surrounding buildings, cars on road, and other outdoor entertainers, including musicians and dancers, vying for the attention of spectators. Elevated wide views of the Jemaa el-Fnaa area. Several persons, in costumes, sell drinks to passersby. A woman performs a dance involving a hot kettle.
Livestock markets in Marrakech, Morocco
Large group of sellers and buyers at outdoor livestock market in Marrakech, Morocco, where camels are being offered for sale. Buyers and sellers negotiate. In separate sequence, a horseman rides toward the camera and demonstrates horsemanship. Two horsemen race their steeds.Prospective buyers look in horse's mouth before mounting for test rides.
Activity in Port of Tunis, Tunisia, after it falls to Allies in World War II
Opening scene shows Port of Tunisia as viewed from a British warship in its harbor, during World War 2. Foreground shows QF 2-pounder 40-millimetre (1.6 in) British autocannon (commonly called "pom pom" and used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy). An Italian submarine moves slowly through the harbor and docks. Sustained view of Italian sailor aboard a warship looking through binoculars. Italian Naval officer at the helm looking through binoculars. Closeup of another Italian naval officer with pipe in his mouth. Landing craft side by side at a stone pier. British soldiers disembarking from a ship onto a dock, with all their gear, and proceeding to the main pier. Change of scene shows a deep sea diver in suit and helmet being helped to descend into the water from a dock. As he sinks underwater, many bubbles rise from his air supply. Another view of a deep sea diver being prepared to descend. Men assist him with hoses and helmet.
Activities at Port of Tunis,Tunisia, as Allies occupy it after capture in World War II
At start of film a destroyer is seen in the distance racing through white capped sea, with heavy black smoke streaming from its single stack. View shifts to sailors aboard a ship operating motorized anchor cable winches. Troops equipped with back packs and bed rolls, step from a landing craft onto a shore of black material. extended views of a barrage balloon overhead in a clear blue sky. View from railed porch on a building of ships docked nearby below. View from water in harbor of barrage balloon flying above ships. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
French crew demonstrates operation of ship's twin guns in Tunisia after Allied occupation in World War II
French gun crews in steel battle helmets scramble aboard their warship docked in the Port of Tunis, Tunisia, after the fall of Tunisia to the Allies, during World War II. Scene shifts to twin guns being raised and lowered in tandem from turrets on the ship's deck. Crew members obtaining shells from ship's armory and loading them into the twin guns. The left gun fires. Crew bring more shells to the gun turrets.
Italian submarine enters harbor at Tunis, Tunisia, and docks.
Setting is Port of Tunis, Tunisia, following Occupation by Allies in 1943. The entire film depicts an Italian submarine transiting the harbor and eventually berthing at a dock.
