The wheels of the Queen’s plane touched down punctually at twelve noon. Senior Sudanese officials at the Khartoum airport looked at their watches and applauded loudly…In Western Sudan, tribal leaders assembled hundreds of camels and their riders in a large pageant of joyful disorder. The Queen loved it all.
- Watch Your Step, Khawaja: A British Teacher in Sudan, 1956-1966, Peter Everington
There is a scene early in the film with the camera pointed at Yousef on his camel when a question is shouted at him, What time is it? He consults his wrist watch at length and answers, A Quarter to…Four. Never would I have imagined such precise time-keeping on the Darb. But later, Idris sang a driving song with this lyric addressed to his camel, O My Rocket, Your eye is like a Seiko, and we all loved it.