1938 - Palestine, Highways & Traffic; Arab Officials; Allenby Bridge & Border Crossing; Railroad

1938 - Palestine, Highways & Traffic; Arab Officials; Allenby Bridge & Border Crossing; Railroad POV along Jaffa-Jerusalem road (proposed "corridor" in British partition scheme) from Jerusalem to Jaffa w/ road lined w/ cactus & orange groves. Railroad crossing. 00:04:50 Road sign: JERUSALEM-LYDDA-RAMLE. LS from above of main highway hairpin turns from Jerusalem to Jaffa. 00:05:16 Policeman directing traffic in Jaffa, street scenes, square in Jaffa. Pedestrians. 00:05:53 Jaffa from Franciscan monastery, homes. Harbor at night. 00:06:30 Jaffa's biggest cinema, "Alhambra" & Jaffa street scenes, people, shops. 00:06:54 EXT of printing press for "Falastin", the Arab daily newspaper (brief). Store fronts & pedestrians. 00:07:28 Jaffa Mayor, Assem Bey Said, in his office, CUs. 00:07:49 Nablus, the largest center of resistance in Palestine (known as the "moral capital" of the Arabs in Palestine). Cactus-covered hills (a "terrorist hiding spot"). 00:08:30 Entrance, Arab National Hospital in Nablus. LS, hospital from the street. 00:08:50 Nablus Mayor, Suleiman Bey Tuqan, congratulated by friends on narrow escape from an ambush. (Tuqan was one of the leaders of the Opposition Party to Mufti.) 00:09:25 Nablus Municipality bulletin board w/ Government orders on curfew and other acts for the area. 00:09:34 CU, villager of Nablus. 00:09:47 Samaritans camp on Mount Gerizim during Passover, tent. Children dancing, playing around camp. 00:10:19 Arabs buying Nablus-made soap. Nablus market district, weaving. 00:11:17 Harbor, Dead Sea. Policeman out of Dead Sea Police Post w/ sign on building. 00:11:45 Allenby Bridge crossing Jordan River. Customs & police officers. Jordan side of bridge w/ flag on pole & shed. Truck crossing border bridge. 00:12:15 CU, Palestine flag. Sign: Sea Level, on Jericho - Jerusalem road. Foliage & hills. 00:12:57 Freight train traveling between Egypt and Palestine, pulling into Rehoboth station. 00:13:21 Crates on railroad platform. Government clerks examine oranges & transporting boxes of oranges in huge railway shed in Rehoboth. British Occupation; British Mandate; Daily Life; Citrus Agriculture; Officials; VIPS; Arabs; 1930s;