Made by Eric Hall, this is a travelogue filmed in Morocco.  The film is accompanied by a commentary informing the viewer as the film highlights different sites.   Title – Inside Morocco Title – Produced by J Eric Hall A world map shows southern Europe and North Africa, focusing on Morocco and Algeria. The Atlas mountains line the horizon of a desert landscape, and in a busy market food and pottery are for sale. Women pass by wearing face veils, and one woman wears white stilettos beneath...

Made by Eric Hall, this is a travelogue filmed in Morocco.  The film is accompanied by a commentary informing the viewer as the film highlights different sites.   Title – Inside Morocco Title – Produced by J Eric Hall A world map shows southern Europe and North Africa, focusing on Morocco and Algeria. The Atlas mountains line the horizon of a desert landscape, and in a busy market food and pottery are for sale. Women pass by wearing face veils, and one woman wears white stilettos beneath her burqa.  In a rural area, water evaporates in the sun from large square salt pans, and a woman sells salt from a basket by the roadside. Rowing boats with white awnings bob in the water of the Bou Regreg River estuary, near the capital city of Rabat, one of Morocco’s four imperial cities. Inside the city walls, a man hands bread from a paper bag to men sat in doorways, and the commentary notes the importance of this alms-giving, or zakat, in Islam. Leather, metal and wood workers produce their goods in small workshops, and a tailor works at a Singer sewing machine. Dappled light floods a busy market with brightly coloured goods for sale. At the King’s Palace, guards in white uniforms stand before the arched gateways, and the commentary explains that the roar of lions from inside could also be heard. The Hassan Tower, the minaret of an unfinished mosque begun in the 12th century by Yacub al-Mansour, looms over the other columns at the site. A map by the side of the road indicates the location of Marrakech and neighbouring towns in French and Arabic. White tourists lounge by the pool of the hotel La Mamounia, where Winston Churchill frequently holidayed. Locals head through a gateway in the red ochre sandstone walls and the tower of the Koutoubia mosque is seen. At the Jamaa al-Fna market square, dancers perform and a man charms a snake. A small group of women have their fortunes told and men perform bicycle tricks and gymnastics. With all manner of produce for sale, the area teems with life. Local women cross an indoor garden with an ornamental fountain, bright plants and flowers and tiled walls. Once part of a sultan’s palace, at the time the film was taken it was used as a restaurant. At the Bahia Palace, a tiled walkway around a beautiful tiled courtyard offers shade from the sun. Away from the city, on the road to Fez, young boys sit with piles of quartz for sale, from the nearby mountains. A group of men sits in the shade and makes wicker baskets. By a winding river, groups of people gather and wash laundry. Near the gates into the medina, or old city, of Fez, people gather. Inside the city, men sit in groups in a courtyard of the Kairouyine mosque. In the rooms of a richly decorated palace, the filmmaker’s wife wears a long golden robe, white slippers and a fez, and smiles to the camera. The commentary explains that the owner had persuaded her to try them on. On the outskirts of Meknes stands the Bab Mansour gate, which the commentary declares the finest city gate in Morocco, built with stones from the Roman city of Volubilis. From the city walls of Moulay Idriss, the ancient ruins of Volubilis can be seen across the expansive landscape. Title – The End