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1964: MARRAKECH FANTASIA | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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7:09Now PlayingIt’s 1964, and a BBC crew is sweltering in the heat outside the city of Marrakech, waiting for the Fantasia.
The Fantasia is a day-long series of cavalry charges, re-enacted by Berber tribesmen, watched by an excited Moroccan crowd. They ride full tilt at the onlookers, pulling up short as late and close to the crowd as possible. They fire flintlock rifles, and their war cries ring out across the city walls.
Presenter Julian Pettifer takes his place, having been assured that “there are never any accidents.”
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday, 7 April, 1964.
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