Carnival Fantastique

1960 18 min

Overview

Held over the two days before Ash Wednesday, Trinidad's famous carnival is the most anticipated event of the island's cultural calendar. Here Edric Connor shows us the sights, sounds and quirky customs of this glorious event. Filmmaker Edric Connor was a Trinidadian actor and singer who popularised Day Dah Light, the song that became an international hit for Harry Belafonte as Day-O (The Banana Boat Song). An actor in British and American films of the 1950s, Connor went on, with his wife Pearl, to set up the first theatrical agency for black British performers, the Afro-Asian-Caribbean Agency.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

United Kingdom

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Cast

Edric Connor

Self - Commentator

Crew

Edric Connor

Producer

Edric Connor

Writer

Edric Connor

Director

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