(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading equipment. Site before settlement (clock - 4.00 am). Jewish Settlement Police move up to site of new settlement. Volunteers drive up in trucks. Unloading prefabricated walls; settlers cut grass. Constructing bridge across stream, houses. Erecting barbed wire fences. Wheeling in pre-constructed watchtower and hoisting it into vertical position; digging up stones for defences. Settlers plough land, workers look on (clock - 8.30 am). Arrival of prefabricated houses. Settlers eating (clock - 12.00). Hartzfield (Jewish Agency planning committee) addresses settlers. Settlers dance Horah. Model of settlement showing military-style lay-out. 1943 montage - 5 years on: general impressions of thriving settlement.

(198A) October 1939: Opening of Magden-David Adom (ie Zionist Red Cross) branch at Ramat Gan. First aid demonstration. Heads of Haganah and Magden-David inspect graduates of first aid training course, present diplomas. March past of graduates.

Extracts from a series of newsreels produced for the Jewish audience in Palestine, 1929-1947.

Notes

Documentation/associated material: Axelrod catalogue (held in photocopy form by Film and Video Archive).