The film is about Dahomey - a Western African country.
Nature of Dahomey (after 1975 - the State of Benin): palm trees, flowers. Villagers Ganve do chores - fish, a boat carrying fresh water. Home village, situated on stilts on the water. Type port drown, located in the Gulf of Guinea; foreign ships in port. Type in Cotonou, street vendors selling fruit, kinds of urban cafe market. Wood carvers, painters sell their products on the market. Female employee of one of the printing of Dahomey - in the shop with printing presses, a doctor examining a child in a medical office. Children swim in the pool. Various aspects of building houses in Dahomey. Residents of Dahomey felled palm trees, dancing in the street; unload ships at the port.
Animation: Political map of Africa, the Republic of Dahomey (filmed collisions) - CU.
Calm surf the Atlantic, slowly rolling waves - MS., PNRM.
Palm trees on the beach - CU., To travel.
The shepherd drives the forest cows - MS.
Bright colors - CU.
The village with huts - MS., PNRM.
In one of the huts, a woman engaged in economic affairs.
Children at the hut - CU.
Barrels of guns and stone crosses, overgrown grass in the fort built by Portuguese colonizers in ancient times - CU., MS.
Palm leaves - CU., PNRM., Shot from below.
Stone statues of ancient gods - CU., A collision, the crown of palms - CU., PNRM.
Waves in the ocean - CU.
Colored reliefs of animals, birds, plants, and slaves - CU., PNRM., MS.
The ruins of the palaces of kings in the ancient capital of the country Abama - LS.
Lies a wooden sculpture - MS.
Pile dwellings in the lagoon Nokue, which in ancient times was replaced by slave tribe Ayzo.
Life in the lagoon villages Ganve, Agege, Sokanie - people move in boats, transported in boats with fruit market, fabric, bread, a variety of goods and fresh water.
Women and children are moved by boat - CU.
Pile huts on the water - CU., MS., PNRM.
The international airport in Cotonou - aircraft on the airfield and landed - CU., MS.
Ocean port of Cotonou - MS.
In the port of ships from different countries - England, East Germany, the Soviet Union and others - CU., MS.
The inscription on the stern of the ship, "Riga» - CU.
Flags of the GDR, the USSR and other ships in the stern - MS.
Loading and unloading of the Soviet ship - MS., CU.
Work at the port - MS.
High-voltage power line - MS., PNRM.
The huts of palms - CU., PNRM.
The building is modern forms in Porto Novo and Cotonou - CU., PNRM., MS.
The mosaic decoration on the wall of the building - CU.
Traffic on the streets - cars, buses, motorcycles - MS.
Cyclists on the streets - MS.
The building industry.
Traffic control on the streets - a man and a woman - CU.
Are young women - CU.
People on the streets - MS.
Woman - traffic control on the streets of
Cotonou - MS.
City streets, shop windows - MS., To travel.
The young woman behind the wheel scooter - MS.
Visitors to the cafe - MS.
In the streets, women are in the European and national dress - MS.
Parrot Cage - CU.
On the streets of hawkers selling fruit and different edibles - MS.
African market in Cotonou - selling various s / s products home crafts - MS., CU.
Converse women - MS.
Women choose a clay pot - MS.
Girl eating ice cream - MS.
Masters, who made signs, paint letters - CU.
Various handicrafts: appliques, bronze casting, ceramics, wood carvings and bone - MS., CU., PNRM.
A beautiful young woman - CU.
Women talk - CU.
In the laboratory, the microscope woman - MS.
In printing work compositor linotyper - CU., MS.
Printing machine - MS.
A doctor examines a child, talking to his mother - MS., CU.
In the X-ray room man doing a chest - MS., PNRM.
The game of football on the field - CU., MS.
Girls and children swimming in the pool, play with a ball in the water - MS.
A woman washes the baby, pouring out of the bowl - MS., CU.
The children sleep on their backs mothers - MS., CU.
Monument to fighters who died for the liberation of Dahomey (white obelisk) - MS., With an accident.
Construction of the building, masonry stone wall - MS., CU.
Go to work - MS.
Works bulldozer - CU.
Fishermen throw from a boat at sea network trawl net on the shore - MS.
Oil palm - CU.
Man chops off the oil palm fruit - CU.
Unloading at the port - MS.
People having fun - dancing, playing the drums and other percussion instruments.
Men's, women's and children's faces - CU.
The market are 3 girls trouser suits.