Archive material collected during the production of the Thames Television documentary series "Palestine".

UNEDITED AND UNTITLED EXTRACTS FROM LOWELL THOMAS RECORD OF THE MIDDLE EAST CAMPAIGN WHICH INCLUDES LOWELL THOMAS MEETING COLONEL LAWRENCE AND KING FEISAL; ARAB HORSEMEN; LAWRENCE LEADING A CAMEL CARAVAN.

Incomplete Issue. Items include:

IN TARGET LAND "Recording hits from guns great and small" (56ft).

THE ETERNAL CAMEL "The desert still defies Man to invent a transport substitute for the camel which marches to War in Palestine ...

I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.

I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, ...

A travelogue showing Acre, the river Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Bethlehem and Hebron.

Palestine in the present day, arranged as to illustrate the New Testament of the Bible.

Scenes of the life of the people of Palestine, contrasting the ancient and the modern.

9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...

Undated film of Allenby in Palestine, and scenes of the RAF flying display at Hendon and the cerremony of Trooping the Colour, both in 1929, shot by a British medical officer serving with the Iraq Levies, 1920s-1939.

Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.

Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. Constantinople, loading of maize. Varna, unloading at the quay. The entrance to the Bosphorus. Quarantine station. ...

AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey across the Middle East region.

Aerial views of unidentified towns and countryside along the River Tigris, the town of Kut (91). The River Tigris and Baghdad, street scenes in Baghdad and a hall ...

"PALESTINE: ON THE SEA THAT OUR SAVIOUR KNEW!" "Simple peasants throng shores of Sea of Galilee. Where many stories of the Gospels were enacted. To see a flying boat (Imperial Airways) land on historic waters for ...

Brief resume of the history of Palestine from the days of Abraham to the modern days. A missionary at work.

Footage from Palestine.

Introduced by Lord Lee of Fareham, who explains that many doubt the value of the Bible of history. Views are then shown which are associated with stories from the Bible, and the life of Christ.

(5A) April 1935: The ship Roma arrives at Haifa. On board are new immigrants, 'legals' who have the appropriate immigration certificates, and sportsmen arriving for the Maccabiah Sports Games.

(10B) June 1935: Jubilee celebrations for ...

(No newsreel no; Box 415) November 1929: After the riots in Palestine in August 1929 the British set up a Royal Commission under Sir Walter Shaw to investigate the causes of the disturbances. This shows the Commission arriving at the residence ...

Filmed scenes of Palestine to illustrate Biblical sayings and images.

(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, ...

(92D) June 1937: laying foundation stone for new Hulda Kibbutz. Crowds arrive for ceremony; Palestinian 'fellahin' at ceremony; speeches by unknown settlers who read a scroll outlining the purpose of the kibbutz which is then buried in the ...

(26A) August 1935: Slum clearance in the poor Maccabi neighbourhood.

(30A) September 1935: New immigrants on SS Tel Aviv en route to Palestine, dancing Horah, etc. The coast seen is that of Crete. The immigrants boarded at Trieste in ...

(128A) February 1938: New High Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael arrives at Haifa to take up his new office.

(129A) March 1938: Fire in a timber warehouse at Rehovoth. Firemen. Palestinian Police head out with tracking dogs. (This fire ...

(49A) Winter 1935/36: Celebrations in Biyat Vagin on planting trees.

(41B) November/December 1935: Municipal elections in Tel Aviv and electioneering.

(70C) January 1937: High Commissioner Wauchope visits Itzhar cosmetic factory ...

(147A) July 1938: Building of the Maale Hachamisha Kibbutz (chamisha means five in Hebrew). This kibbutz was built in memory of five young Jews killed on the site during an Arab guerrilla raid; halfway on the road between Jerusalem and Tel ...

A parable set in Palestine at the time of Christ.

(157A) October 1938: At the beginning of a new Hebrew year the first 'legal' immigrants arrive at the newly constructed port of Tel Aviv from SS Polonia.

(182A) June 1939: After the publication of the British Government's White Paper on ...

(Reel 1) Map of Palestine with oil pipe line from Iraq to Haifa marked. "September Crisis 1938": HMS Malaya sails from Haifa, under Mount Carmel, to Alexandria, with HMS Gallant (H.59) escorting. Scenes in Alexandria: RN submarine, Fairey Sea Fox ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the Ceylon (?), Muscat, East Africa, India and Burma, the Seychelles and while serving on HMS Ilex (1937-1939) ...

(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving Southampton . The regiment watch other boats and a destroyer from the deck. The train stationary at a station in France. The ...

Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

(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.

(1B/second series) ...

(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 ...

Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does not shirk her responsibilities to her colonies."

An opening sequence of maps and stock shots ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ADVANCE INTO SYRIA HEADS NEWS FROM MIDDLE EAST ALLIED TROOPS CROSS SYRIAN BORDER BRITISH PINCH OUT IRAQ REVOLT REFUGE IN PALESTINE FOR KING PETER GERMAN PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED ...

Zionist settlements in Palestine.

DOCUMENTARY. The work of the Hadassah Medical Organisation (sponsored by the Women's Zionist Organisation of America) in Palestine, particularly during World War II. The Hadassah Organisation brings American techniques to help the Jewish ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Sergeant Leslie Brower, a signaller in the 2nd Battalion Royal Horse Artillery, records military action in the Western Desert during the Eighth Army offensive of 1942, then off-duty scenes ...

A travelogue of Palestine.

Includes scenes in Haifa, the Sea of Galilee, Tiberius, Capernium, Jericho, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the daily lives of the local fishermen, shepherds and townspeople.

(Reel 1) B&W - Winter 1939 (?). Kennard in suit by his open-top Ford Tourer, beside camel and Arabs. Playing polo at Alexandria Sporting Club. Boxing and tennis. Third Battalion exercise in desert: large tent encampment near rocky mountains. Soldiers ...

Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...

(216A) April 1940: (item continued from MGH 1438). Trench digging instruction; training in use of rifle. Pay parade. Scenes in mess - men queue for food and drink, relax in mess hall. Parade on drill square - unidentified British officer takes ...

Survey of the Zionist side of the problem of the occupation of Palestine.

Documentary on the religious life in Jerusalem during the time of Christ.

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: STATESMEN CONFER FOR PEACE 50 YEARS ON WHEELS OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS ; LONDON ; TABLE MOUNTAIN ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA VANCOUVER ; WASHINGTON PALESTINE OUTRAGE! QUEEN OPENS ...

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: REPORT FROM PALESTINE ILLEGAL JEWISH ARMS DUMP FOUND IN MESHEQ YAGUR SPORTS PARADE (WIMBLEDON) THEIR MAJESTIES ATTEND THE CIVIL SERVICE SPORTS CONTEST DUCHESS OF KENT ...