CAMELS AND JAFFA
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 20).
Synopsis
Scenes in Jaffa under British occupation, Palestine Front, probably late 1917.
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men working to unload the tiffin onto the beach appear to be Egyptian Labour Corps under British direction.
Notes
Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.
Titles
- CAMELS AND JAFFA
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1917
- Running Time:
- 4 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 246 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- War Office Cinema Committee (?)
- cameraman
- Hurley, Frank (?)
- cameraman
- Jeapes, Harold (?)
- Production company
- Topical Film Company (?)
