Zambesi Aka Zambezi (1964)

Southern Rhodesia. Travelogue showing the beauty of the region around the Zambesi (Zambezi) river. Aerial shots of the countryside showing housing and wildlife. Aircraft taxis along the runway of Salisbury Airport. People disembark from the aircraft. Various shots of the capital city. Beautiful flowers in the city gardens. Tobacco selling centre various shots of men checking quality of tobacco leaves with an auctioneer type voice garbling tobacco prices. Narrator states that Princess Margaret asked for a recording of the auctioneer s voice as she was so intrigued by it. Pipe smoking women of the Batonka tribe two women sit together. One holds a baby while she smokes a pipe, the other dresses her hair with clay died with ochre. Local men use canoes dug from tree trunks to take them fishing. Fish are unloaded onto shore. High angle shot of men cleaning the fish. They are spread out to dry on the roofs of their huts. Road tour of the countryside. Various shots of landscape and rocky ou