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Go to HomepageReel Number: 270007-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1959
Country: Israel,Jordan,Palestine
Location: Amman,Jerusalem
TC Begins: 04:26:52
TC Ends: 04:52:17
Duration: 00:25:25
1959 - Travelogue, USA: Dead Sea Scrolls & Israel / Palestine Pt 2 of 2 INCLUDING: 04:29:30 Pan over rooftops of Jerusalem. CU Professor Avigad studying fragments of Dead Sea Scroll. CU matching bits with tweezers and reading through magnifying glass. Transliterating onto notebook Hebrew text. 04:32:11 Pan over Old City of Jerusalem (part of Jordan) - dome of the rock, Gath Semane. Barbed wire. Forces photographers to fly fro Israeli Jerusalem to Jordanian Jerusalem via Athens. Aerial views of port of Jaffa, plane wing, Mediterranean islands (Cyprus?), approaching Athens. Landing, Acropolis. British Airways BEA plane - boarding. 04:34:50 Damascus Gate (of Old city of Jerusalem. Various churches, Rockefeller Museum.\ 04:35:36 Museum interior - Jars with scrolls, fragments. Reconstructed writing tables and inkwells from Qumran caves. Coin of Romans and King Herod’s time. 04:37:01 Kando the middle man who received the first scrolls from the Bedouins and sold them on to scholars. 04:37:32 - POV car along desert to Amman - museum. 04:38:20 - NG 04:38:43 - Dr. Adjani museum curator in Amman - shows jars, skulls several thousand years old, perhaps from Jericho. Artifacts from Jericho, head of Tigi, Goddess of Amman., coins. Curator shows sections of famous copper scroll “first motion picture film of this scroll”). - taken out to bright sunlight for shooting. CU bits of scroll. Curator examining scroll and pointing to it. 04:43:14 - on the road, camel crosses road, woman drawing water from hole. Arab / Bedouin men riding on camels at a fast trot. On the road again towards Qumran caves. Dead sea waves lapping shore. man tasting sand for salt. Qumran monastery excavations. Men going into Qumran caves using torches made of rags soaked in petrol tied to wooden club. 04:49:06 Hidden City of Petra including temple of Nabateans. Beautiful carvings into rock. 04:50:46 NOTE: Up to any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.