Sultan Of Morocco & Cuts (1926) 

France.
Title reads: "Sultan of Morocco inaugurates magnificent new Mosque in Paris".
M/S of a troop of Moroccan soldiers on horseback trotting past the walls of the new mosque. Panning M/S of the Sultan, Moulay Youssef (aka Mulai Yusef), and his entourage of Moroccan and French men walking through mosque's courtyard garden. L/S of Sultan and party entering another courtyard filled with a crowd of men. Panning shot follows the Sultan as he walks past the crowd and through an arches doorway. There are lots of press photographers talking his picture.
Cuts/ out takes start at 01:35:39. M/S of traditionally dressed Moroccan men walking around cloisters of mosque. Various shots of a crowd of Arab men and boys waiting behind a cordon outside the mosque, some good C/Us of the men, including the Sultan. M/S of a traditional Moroccan musicians standing next to their instruments. Various shots of Moroccan men drinking from a fountain. M/S of Moroccan man decorated with medals (the Sultan?) patting the nose of a horse. M/S of two Moroccans on horseback. Various shots of troop of Moroccan soldiers on horseback riding through Paris streets, watched by a crowd of Parisians.
FILM ID:538.21
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