Carnival Fantastique

Carnival Fantastique

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1960

Runtime

0h 18m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Carnival Fantastique

Production Companies

Edric Connor Films

Director

Edric Connor

Description

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.