Moslem Convention; Algerian School Boys; Sheikh El Okbi Speaking & Arrested, ca Jul37

Moslem Convention; Algerian School Boys; Sheikh El Okbi Speaking & Arrested, ca Jul37 Large hall of men raise hands in clenched fist Communist salute, listen, applaud. Men standing talking. Posters in French & Arabic re municipal elections. Arab men lined up outside ?? Du Travail building. 04:40:37 Boys on ground in outdoor class reciting. 04:40:55 Arab men sitting & standing on narow street; two men talking to them. Large group gather on hillside & man (Dr. Saadane ?) speaking to them, seen from behind speaker & from on top of hill towards speaker. 04:42:42 Same man (Dr. Saadane ?) sitting talking to men in narrow street. 04:42:54 Large square w/ French police & Arabs outside Salon de l’ ??. Men talking, milling about. LS past police w/ fields & apartment buildings in background. 04:43:50 Int. of large warehouse (?) filled w/ seated arabs applauding. Men entering. CU Sheikh El Okbi speaking (MOS). 04:44:14 Init. office or hall w/ picture at front of Maurice Viollette (?). Cleric Sheikh El Okbi sits behind table on podium. Men in fez & turbans fill ornate hall. Okbi reads from book, gestures speaking. MCU; CU. LS of men listening. MCU listening. 04:46:55 Dark - not useable. 04:47:29 Street & men in European suits walk Sheikh El Okbi to police van & drive away led & followed by police in motorcycle & sidecar. Algiers street scene & pedestrians. Police outside station house. Police van arriving. Sheikh El Okbi taken from van along w/ another. 04:48:17 Ext. of prison. 04:48:24 Building exterior w/ signs: Cercle du progres; ?afhie A. Vollenweiger 1930s; 1937; Colonialism; French Algeria; Independence Movement; Religion; Islamic; Muslim Cleric;