# 1949 DESERT NOMADS ARAB TRIBES in SAHARA DESERT of FRENCH MOROCCO 61664

This black and white documentary film from 1949 was produced by Louis de Rochemont Associates, Inc., distributed by United World Films, Inc, directed by John Ferno, and photographed by filmmaker Richard Leacock. It follows the lives of a group of Arab nomads who live with their flocks and herds near the Atlas Mountains in the Sahara Desert in French Morocco. The film opens with the rocky limestone portion of the Sahara and the men around the campfire in the morning (:27- 1:15 ). A man’s wealth is measured by the number of camels he owns and so camels are shown ( 1:15 - 2:10 ) as are goats ( 2:10 - 2:20 ). A camel is milked ( 2:25 - 2:36 ). A boy wraps his head in a long turban. His lunch is milk from a bowl and dates ( 2:37 - 3:15 ). The women use donkeys to go to a pool of water and fill goat skins ( 3:19 - 4:25 ). Two women use a spinning pottery device to grind nut barley ( 4:28 - 4:45 ). The water skins are hung on wooden racks ( 4:48 - 4:55 ). A woman uses the grain to make couscous in a woven basket sealed over steaming soup ( 5:00 - 5:32 ). The Muslim men bow in prayer ( 5:35 - 5:48 ). The couscous is removed from the basket, ready to eat ( 5:50 - 6:00 ). A kettle pours water over hands to clean them ( 6:02 - 6:18 ) as the meal is eaten with the fingers ( 6:20 - 6:48 ). Camp is packed within three hours to move to new feeding grounds. Belongings are moved in leather bags and metal boxes, with fragile items wrapped ( 6:51 - 7:28 ). The camel-hair tents are collapsed…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/61664DesertNomadsVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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