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1945 - Palestine: Town life & Arab market

Reel Number: 221551-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Palestine,Syria,Transjordan

Location: Abdullah Pasha Jazzar,John of Acre,Khalissa,Nablus

TC Begins: 21:06:45

TC Ends: 21:16:51

Duration: 00:10:06

Palestine town life & Arab market, 1945 Road junction toward Syrian & Transjordanian borders, sign. Buses past, Arabs walking. 21:06:58 LS Cattle across desert. City, St. John of Acre, across water (?). People on beach in swimming suits. Street, women walking toward Abdullah Pasha Jazzar Mosque, men w/ carts. 21:07:53 Jazzar mosque w/ old market square in foreground. MCU Teachers walking & talking in yard of mosque (educational center); students past. Closer shots of same repeated. 21:09:06 High angle of street w/ people walking about. Arab cafe, men seated in shade; CU laying backgammon, aka trictrac. Young Arab reading mail as others watch. 21:09:56 Camel caravan thru street, boys, men. Narrow street of stalls & activity buying & selling. 21:10:20 Arabs listening to large consol radio in coffee shop. CUs. 21:10:59 LS crowd watching sports by wall of city, people sitting & standing on ramparts. Closer shots of people moving about. 21:11:34 Sports groups parade, marching in uniforms behind band in street. 21:12:00 Woman in heavy black veils w/ children walking past, some w/o. 21:12:10 Sports groups parade by partially collapsed ramparts. Heavily veiled women & girls. CU groups of women & men standing, talking; some beside bus. 21:13:02 LS Small town of Djenin w/ valley beyond & hills in background. 21:13:24 Pedestrians in entrance to town, car past. 21:13:40 LS cattle grazing in distance; town of Nablus on hillside. Scenics from hilltop. Several shots of men walking on hillside, Nablus beyond. 21:15:13 LS Khalissa Arab cattle market. MS earthenware pottery sellers on ground. CU woman & children w/ jug, talking. Sheep & goats, men talking. Meat hanging outside butchers stall. Cooking. People eating from skewers. CUs. Near East Daily Life; 1940s; 1945; Food; Islamic Religion; Moslem;

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