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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221683-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: Turkey,Ukraine,USSR
Location: Istanbul,Odessa
TC Begins: 00:27:17
TC Ends: 00:36:18
Duration: 00:09:01
Title: Turkey Pt. 1 of 2 00:27:26 Shots of Istanbul harbor towards St. Sophia mosque. View across Bosporus; busy street along dock w/ pedestrians, trolleys. View up hill of similar, cars, pedestrians, horse-drawn wagons. 00:27:58 Silhouetted minaret; dome of mosque; carpeted interior w/ two men praying, man reading Koran, MCU. LS of old city walls, sheep grazing alongside. Fortress ruins. 00:29:24 Low angle of men carrying heavy crates, wagons thru streets, man carrying large bags on back. Silhouetted mosque. 00:29:40 Map of Turkey & surroundings in Middle East. 00:30:17 Sea coast of Gallipoli & straits of Dardanelles; military checkpoint. View of small ships. Map showing Bosporus; freighter thru channel; fishermen pulling in nets along dock. 00:31:15 ca WW1 Naval ship convoy, battleship. Czar Nicholas II boarding ship w/ others on ceremonial occasion. Sailors on deck & firing large guns. Sunken naval ships. 00:32:07 Straits, map showing Odessa & Ukraine. Dock at Odessa ca 1947 & unloading oil pipeline pipes, crates, tractors (narrator says between wars but no so). Barrage balloons over ships; Russian naval convoy. POV from ships of shorelines, fishermen & nets. Map showing w/ wall appearing to block Middle East from USSR. 00:33:44 Garrison & Turkish troops marching across ridgeline. Sentries. Large Turkish army marching. Tanks reviewed. 00:34:40 Turkey Generals talking around table. 00:34:56 Soldiers doing gymnastic exercises; martial arts, exercising. 00:35:17 Ext. US embassy, people in & out. Int. w/ Turkish man talking w/ Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson. 00:35:37 Trans World Airways four-engine commercial Constellation airliner taxiing & American officials off plane. 00:36:01 CU newspaper column: “U.S. Engineers For Turkey, 8 leave today to aid plan for National Highway System”. Meeting of US & Turkish men. CU folders: Shipping, Communications, National Defense. Generals talking. Cold War; NATO; 1949; 1940s; Educational Film; Government Propaganda; Diplomacy; Economics; Allies; Note: May sell any consecutive 10 minutes of two-part film at per reel rate.