James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator
Quotes
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Self - Narrator : In the native market we find a picturesque conglomeration of people and products, pungently flavored with an odoriferous atmosphere, which fortunately our cameras have never been able to photograph.
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Self - Narrator : Here may be purchased anything from live fish to rugs, leatherwork, brass articles, and French postcards.
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Self - Narrator : There isn't much in the Casbah to smile about.
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Self - Narrator : Returning to the native life in Marrakesh, we are soon rubbing shoulders with a bewildering mass of humanity that seems to be as far apart from us as we are from the moon.
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Self - Narrator : It has been said that seeing is believing. But, in our opinion, hearing and smelling are necessary to complete what we see.
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Self - Narrator : And so life goes on in this exotic part of the world, where Europeans and Arabs are engaging in an age old struggle for human understanding.
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Self - Narrator : Although most of the people live frugally, they appear to be reasonably contented in this part of the Arab world.
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Self - Narrator : Although Morocco is a French Protectorate, it is governed, theoretically, by a Sultan who resides at this palace in Rabat. The Sultan's guards present a colorful front for the palace, even though military discipline doesn't appear to concern them nearly as much as the cigarettes we gave them.
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Self - Narrator : Morocco is fundamentally Arab, as far as the majority of the inhabitants are concerned. Only in the larger cities, such as Casablanca, is there any noticeable portion of other peoples and among them we find a conglomeration of negroes, jews, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and a scattering of British and Germans.
