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1945 - Palestine: Dead Sea Potash Factory; Haifa Docks, Oil Storage & Refinery Pipeline

Reel Number: 221747-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Israel,Palestine

Location: Dead Sea,Haifa

TC Begins: 06:35:58

TC Ends: 06:48:00

Duration: 00:12:02

1945 - Palestine: Dead Sea Potash Factory; Haifa Docks, Oil Storage & Refinery Pipeline Truck w/ Arab workers arrives at checkpoint at entrance to Rabbat Ashlag potash factory, suitcase searched. CU signs. 06:37:03 Small engine pulling cars of potash mined from Dead Sea in background. MS man dumping bucket into railcar. MS men digging w/ shovels. Narrow gage railroad cars to factory pulled by engine. Men shoveling, loading cars from bank of potash broken loose w/ picks. Shoveling onto conveyor belts. 06:39:38 Men w/ handtrucks wheeling bags onto trucks at loading dock. 06:40:10 CU muscled man wheeling bag w/ Foreign, Made In Palestine, Palestine Potash inked onto bag. 06:40:15 CU sign: Jericho 6 km. Dead Sea 8 km. Trucks driving up winding road, passing sign: sea level. 06:41:02 CU sign: sea level. 06:41:10 LS Haifa harbor & rooftops of concrete buildings / houses. LS across orchard to oil storage tanks. 06:42:24 Two large tankers / ships docked w/ oil pipelines running between, men on dock & ships. High angle of man turning large valve on pipes. View from ship moving large rubber hose, man works rope from gangway to move hose. LS from ship of activity taking on petroleum,. CUs attaching pipes w/ wrenches. 06:44:51 LS storage tanks & Arab patrolling. Men at pumping station turning valves & wiping large pumps. 06:45:50 Tractor moving pipes near storage tanks. CU & MS welding pipeline. 06:46:50 LS storage tanks & pipeline. MS men into pit & turning valves, one marked refinery. 06:47:27 Men working w/ large oil (?) drums, hoist lifts 8 dangling containers. Palestine Economy; Exports; Minerals; Mining Natural Resources; Middle East; Israel; Jewish Industry;

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