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Life of Jews in Palestine, The Pt 1 of 2

Reel Number: 220514-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1913

Country: Israel,Palestine,Russia,Ukraine

Location: Constatinople,Haifa,Hebron,Jerusalem,Odessa,Tel Aviv,Tel Hazor, Galilee

TC Begins: 06:01:46

TC Ends: 06:33:59

Duration: 00:32:13

The Life of Jews in Palestine Pt 1 of 2 Film titles in French, English & Hebrew. 06:02:00 Odessa Port - Jews boarding ship with heavy luggage. Crowd wave from pier. Tracking shots from aboard ship along Bosphorus (Bosporus), Constantinople in background. Very good details of boat traffic in canal, and towns alongside it. 06:07:32 Hagia Sofia from ship. 06:08:00 Jaffa & Tel Aviv. - Pan over rooftops of new town of Tel Aviv, newly planted trees. Many empty plots. Sand dunes. 06:09:25 Mayor Dizengoff with dignitaries. 06:09:39 Teachers (women) seminary in Jaffa - coming out of school. 06:09:55 Girl's school, Jaffa. - girls march in lines. 06:10:44 Agriculture lesson for girls. Digging in school garden. Marching with spades past camera. Male teacher in white suit and hat supervises. 06:11:32 Girls marching in schoolyard. - very disciplined. 06:12:40 Gymnasia Herzliya - teachers coming out, then pupils marching in schools yard - boys dressed in Cossak type uniform. Gymnastics. Pupils come out of school, including Moshe Shertok (06:14:11 (later known as Moshe Sharet). 06:15:17 Pupils celebrate on sand dunes of Tel Aviv. 06:16:23 Petah Tikva - overhead pan over settlement Ein Ganim - farmyard feeding chickens. 06:17:15 Harvesting oranges - grove with supervisor in 3-piece suit and workers. 06:18:32 Orange sorting and packing in "Pardes" Cooperative. 06:19:40 Caravan of camels delivering oranges to Jaffa port. 06:20:02 Hadera settlement ("colony"). Main street - farmers riding horses and donkeys. "Farmers & Yemenites" working in fields” (Yemenites wear kippa, yarmulke). Busy Main Street of Hadera - horses, carriages, camels, dusty "wild west" feel. Cattle mix in. Harvesting and threshing grain. Children dance in fields. 06:24:08 Settlement (colony) of Zikhron (Zichron) Ya'akov (named after Baron de Rothschild). GVs rooftops and countryside. Coming out synagogue. Harvesting & threshing carts w/ hay. Spraying the vineyards. 06:27:29 Haifa Technion and "Reali" school under construction - Jewish and Arab stone masons. 06:29:23 Kinneret farm (settlement). Feeding chickens, women pioneers working in garden, (in dresses), Young Yemenite singing to filmmaker. 06:31:03 Tiberias, Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) - tracking, Rabbi Meir Baal Haness tomb. Yeshiva - studying torah. Rambam grave - orthodox Jews praying. 06:33:31 Migdal agricultural farm. Continued.... Compilation Film; 1913; 1910s; Middle East; Promotion; Documentary;

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