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Algeria Aflame (1957) Pt. 1 of 4

Reel Number: H1906-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1957

Country: Algeria,Tunisia

Location: Algiers

TC Begins: 01:00:18

TC Ends: 01:17:16

Duration: 00:16:58

Title. Pt. 1 of 4 01:00:28 Staged French military truck thru hills attacked by Algerian rebels / insurgents & sprayed w/ gunfire. 01:00:59 - 01:03:16 Eric Sevareid explaining Algerian conflict. CAN NOT BE SOLD. 01:03:16 - 01:04:28 1830-1930 carved on monument at Lookout Point w/ David Schoenbrun on camera. DO NOT SELL. 01:04:28 Recreational beach w/ families on sand, sunbathing, playing cards, swimming. 01:05:05 Pedestrians on street in Algiers; street cafe w/ business men & women. Casino marquee. 01:05:28 Bomb destroyed interior w/ blood on ceiling. 01:05:38 LS & MS Many people waiting for buses, traffic past. 01:06:02 Traffic policeman, buses, cars; Arab pedestrians. Tree-lined street w/ Europeans / French, mother & baby buggy; French paratrooper patrolling. 01:07:07 Men taking inventory of farm equipment at manufacturing plant. 01:07:33 - 01:08:10 David Schoenbrun w/ microphone interviews owner. “This is my home...” 01:08:10 Owner & foreman in yard. 01:08:28 Colonial planter’s farm w/ laborers & guard w/ gun patrolling. Men & boys picking harvest. 01:08:43 Farmer & CU showing missing finger; son points out bullet holes in car. Guards & farm house w/ barbed wire & sign: mines. Cement pillboxes on corners of house. 01:10:00 Int. w/ farmer reading magazine on couch; son from pillbox w/ machine gun changes places w/ father who looks out from peephole. 01:10:12 Son walking outside shaking hands w/ workers & visiting their families; driving guards in jeep to equipment & soldier riding on bulldozer. Drops other guards at lookout. 01:11:14 Man in back of truck. 01:11:30 Man in field working w/ pick in vegetable field; overhead shot of truck past crowded market stalls. View of narrow Arab street. 01:11:56 - 01:12:04 Schoenbrun on camera outside Casbah. DO NOT SELL. 01:12:04 Kids in street looking at camera; men working in stall. French army patrolling narrow street of native quarter. CU sign: Rue Porte-Neuve. Soldiers into house searching cupboards & hidden tunnel w/ box of terrorist bombs. CUs. 01:14:21 Ext. smoking ground after explosion. Remnant of clothes on barbed wire. Arab women & children around farm buildings; body of assassinated baby & girl shown. Soldiers w/ Arabs along railroad track on Algerian - Tunisian border. Armored small railroad cars along electrical railroad, POV w/ soldiers. 01:15:36 Three small French Army single-engine Piper monoplanes take off to patrol. POV from airplane & air to air of plane. 01:16:03 Camels along ridge of sand dunes; mcu w/ soldier leading caravan & officers talking on radios; planes overhead. Soldiers & camels ride up sand dune, soldiers on foot w/ rifles running to surround Arabs on foot, arrest men. Soldier w/ mine detector finds guns. Continued... North African Revolution; Independence; French Algerian War; 1957; NOTE: Any continuous ten minutes of entire film sold at per reel rate.

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