Morocco Mirage
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.107
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 343 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for "Along the Road to Romance on the Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film shows various scenes of city of Marrakech and Morocco in general. In Marrakech the fim shows market scenes with singers, storytellers, acrobatics and dancing. The film then shows horse racing in southern Morocco race tracks. Following shots of a castle with guards and slaves working in a surrounding field. Within the castle, the shots include the "harem" of wives. Film is narrated by Ed Thorgersen.

Legacy Keywords: Cities and towns ; Markets ; Acrobats ; Horse racing ; Dance ; Slave labor ; Harems