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 British-Pathe 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