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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220512-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Israel,Palestine
Location: Ashdot Ya’akov / Jacob,Revivim
TC Begins: 03:36:42
TC Ends: 03:47:08
Duration: 00:10:26
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1945 - Palestine, Settlements / Kibbutz: Revivim; Ashdot Ya’akov LS of Revivim settlement bell tents on Negev desert hilltop w/ young men & women pioneers out to meet arriving mail van / truck; mail distributed. MS & CUs. 03:37:28 Men w/ derrick drilling for water, people watch. Casing pulled from well. Per catalog card: “Jewish workers overseen by wealthy Arab employer”. 03:37:52 MS & MCU drilling operations, lowering pipe. 03:39:03 Pump house & well beside field; water gushing out which is saline (?). Tractor w/ cultivator past. CU large diameter pipe w/ flowing water. 03:39:5l Small pipe, men fill bucket. Men building tall barbed wire fence; construction equipment excavating for reservoir, dam & spillway headgate. 03:41:53 Concrete aqueduct in Ashdot Ya’akov aka Ashdot Jacob Settlement which brings water from the river Jordan to the settlement. Mule team pulls hay wagon past. Man cleaning aqueduct w/ Jordan river & valley behind. 03:42:47 Arab w/ flock of sheep moving toward Roman Aqueduct. 03:43:17 Tall water tower above fields, Arab on burro w/ 3 pack camels past. CU of top of tower. 03:44:00 Interior, man at pumping station operating pump engine, maintaining pressure. 03:44:38 Exterior, worker open sluice valve beside pipes. Water out of large wooden pipe into canal. 03:45:28 LS across valley. Man opening valve letting water into small concrete settling basin. 03:46:17 LS Two men swimming in large reservoir. 03:46:33 Men turning valves & adjusting ditches to irrigate fields. 1940s; British Mandate; Mandatory Palestine; Agriculture; Irrigation; Kibbutz; NOTE: Revivim was established in mid-1943 as one of several lookouts in Negev Desert. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk