BOAC And Bwia Present A Flying Visit To The Caribbean (1960 1969)

Title credits superimposed over an air routes map read: BOAC and BWIA present FLYING VISIT TO THE CARIBBEAN Produced by Associated BritishPathe Ltd. in conjunction with Film Centre Photography Stan Goozee, Martin Rolfe Film Editor Lionel Hoare Script Robert Hirst Sound WS Bland, George Newberry Colour by Technicolor Directed by Terry Ashwood. Air to air shots of BOAC and BWIA (British Airways) aeroplanes. In Trinidad we see a man in a garden playing drums for a ritual dance display by a girl and three men. They dance about in a frenzied way, the girl falling to the ground to supposedly drink from a bowl. After she is carried off a man in flouncy sleeves and scarves appears, leaping through the air. He dances with the bowl. Beside a beach we see a man climb up a palm tree to pick green coconuts. Beautiful beach scenes; palm trees, a fisherman tending his nets. Off the coast of Jamaica we see a western couple looking through a glass panel in the bottom of their small boat to