AFRICAN SKYWAY 1940
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.
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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...
Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...
(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 ...
(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by hand (guarded by armed horsemen). Bringing in the harvest. Jewish Settlement Police on guard. Harvest ...
(209C) February 1940: "War comes to Palestine", fitting gas masks for children in Tel Aviv.
(No newsreel no; Box 719-21) Spring 1940: "Civilians alert yourselves", ARP activities in Tel Aviv, building shelters.
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(61A) November 1936: High Commissioner Wauchope at official opening ceremony of the Bennison Jewish Hospital near Sharon. Briefly in synch and then being taken around the brand new buildings. The Secretary of the Histradut (the Jewish Labour ...
European wedding with guests and full wedding party reception. Harbour port scenes with shipping traffic. Voyage on large ocean liner. Coastal shots from ship perhaps arriving in India.
Miscellany of country life showing agriculture and fishery. Also the construction of a large building using 'Biblical Methods'
Oceanliner Vovage with extensive shots of Aden and its achorage showng scenery and shipping. Ocean voyage shows on board festivities such as 'the crossing of the line'.
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).
Lush vegetation. Scenery footage including mountains and village or tourist accommodation set amongst the high terrain.