1930-1939MIDDLE EAST
The films were taken in the 1930’s in Palestine and Egypt by amateur cinematographer Joshua Freiberger
Jerusalem, wonderful shots of the streets in the old city, the people in various garb and the wailing wall, dome of the rock, and Haifa
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Jerusalem, wonderful shots of the streets in the old city, the people in various garb and the wailing wall, dome of the rock, and Haifa
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Title Card: Josh Freiberger (amateur cinematographer). "Offers"
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| 01:00:11 11.42 |
Title Card Eretz Israel the Jewish National Homeland
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| 01:00:13 13.3 |
Title Card - Mount Scopus
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| 01:00:21 21.19 |
WS an orchestra plays outdoors in front of a packed audience at Mount Scopus.
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| 01:00:25 25.34 |
Title Card
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| 01:00:39 39.84 |
WS audience outdoors, native folk of Jerusalem, women seen with head coverings - circa 1930's
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| 01:00:43 43.03 |
Tilt down on symphony playing to huge crowd of people at Mount Scopus. Various enraptured audience shots
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| 01:01:02 62.95 |
Title card
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| 01:01:09 69.91 |
WS caravan of camels slowly walking across the desert
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| 01:01:13 73.91 |
Title Card
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| 01:01:17 77.91 |
Two men cutting down a tree using a two-man cross-cut saw
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| 01:01:24 84.09 |
Title card
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| 01:01:29 89.33 |
WS men hammering out trenches in the desert using picks
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| 01:01:36 96.27 |
Title card
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| 01:01:41 101.54 |
A steam shovel out in the desert digging up sand
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| 01:01:46 106.69 |
Title cards
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| 01:01:58 118.96 |
WS a fountain spouting water straight up into the air. Vintage car parked in bkgd.
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| 01:02:01 121.72 |
Var. Pan across a home tucked in the hills with tall palm trees and greenery. A pond with reeds blowing in the wind and lily pads with flowers blossoming
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| 01:02:16 136.16 |
Title Card
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| 01:02:19 139.25 |
Tilt down on huge outdoor audience listening to live symphony orchestra
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| 01:02:25 145.35 |
Title Card: Jerusalem
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| 01:02:26 146.32 |
Ws pan Jerusalem - footage is dark
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| 01:02:47 167.31 |
The streets in the old city - outside a castle like building, chickens running around, native folk walking and hanging about
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| 01:02:55 175.35 |
A old monk standing next to the Biblical Well of David
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| 01:03:10 190.7 |
Pan across the site of the Tomb of King David in Mount Zion
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| 01:03:23 203.81 |
Title Card - The Sepulchre of Absalom
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| 01:03:25 205.97 |
Ancient monumental rock cut tomb located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem
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| 01:03:32 212.54 |
Title Card
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| 01:03:34 214.62 |
WS the sacred burial place of the Biblical matriarch, Rachel in Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem
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| 01:03:46 226.93 |
Title card - the Mosque of Omar
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| 01:03:51 231.57 |
WS Mosque of Omar, Dome of the Rock
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| 01:03:58 238.9 |
Title Card - The Wailing Wall
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| 01:03:59 239.03 |
WS The Wailing Wall a stone wall where Jews lament over the destruction of Jerusalem. Known as the most religious site in the world for Jewish folk.
A line of people, mostly women, wearing head coverings and long dark clothes, are seen praying at the Wall. |
| 01:04:32 272.37 |
Group of Jewish Rabbis holding prayer books and continually bowing are seen praying at the Wall
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| 01:04:37 277.3 |
A person, most likely a woman, draped in white bowing her head rapidly up and down against the Wailing Wall near a stone etched in Hebrew writing
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| 01:04:48 288.6 |
Various shots near the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem - people sitting on the ground, folk wearing various garb - long dresses and head scarves on the women, some with their faces covered entirely, men wearing turbans and robes. Two men talking, donkeys in bkgd., peds walking through arched narrow streets
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| 01:05:36 336.41 |
More shots around the Old City of Jerusalem - people and faces of the village, narrow cobblestone streets, attached buildings, folk selling their wares in the streets, donkeys carrying wares. Lifestyle, culture.
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| 01:06:06 366.04 |
CU happy smiling face of a man in his 30's wearing a turban. Face of an older gentleman, more serious, long gray beard and wearing a yamaka
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| 01:06:11 371.15 |
Lifestyle shots - men, women, children in various garb going about their business, man walking toward camera covers his face, person wearing a giant turban waling down the street, groups of peds on city streets, monk with long white beard and conical headcovering, man on horse, donkeys, bicycles.
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| 01:07:31 451.51 |
Title card - Haifa - a port city
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| 01:07:37 457.4 |
Tilt down from behind a beautiful single tree overlooking the port city of Haifa, Israel, overlooking the Mediterranean, third largest city in Israel.
Other beautiful tilt down WSs of Haifa from other various places overlooking the landscape. |
| 01:08:04 484.95 |
Pan the hilly green mountainous terrain of Mount Carmel in Haifa, homes, estates and parks in the hills overlooking the Mediterranean.
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| 01:08:50 530.29 |
Tourists looking out from a park over the water - large ships on the Sea.
Tilt down over the land, a steam locomotive freight train going by, a herd of camels walking along a sandy trail, boats out on the water. |
| 01:09:06 546.58 |
Small boat loaded to the brim with people pulling up to dock, everyone getting out.
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| 01:09:12 552.38 |
People boarding a passenger train. Steam engine train going through a village and heads toward camera
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| 01:09:22 562.46 |
Title card
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| 01:09:28 568.49 |
Commercial area of the City of Haifa. Businessmen walking, store fronts, peds, apartments
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| 01:09:41 581.84 |
WS tilt down great shot looking down on a street in Haifa City - the Mediterranean is seen at the end of the street, ships and trains going by, peds on the streets with palm trees and modern buildings.
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| 01:09:53 593.13 |
Downtown Haifa City, busy with peds, hustle bustle, tall modern buildings
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| 01:09:58 598.15 |
matzoh factory
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| 01:09:59 599.4 |
Interior an old deserted matzo factory in Haifa
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| 01:10:05 605.86 |
Peasant women outdoors making Matzoths the old way, by hand and using a spinning wheel . Tilt down on the wheel and their arms feverishly spinning the wheel around.
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| 01:10:25 625.34 |
Int. "Grand Moulins de Palestine" (circa 1925) - the Haifa City Flour Mills.
Wheels spinning, factory workers at work, large sheets of matzo on conveyor belt going into oven, cooked matzos are seen coming out of the oven on the conveyors. A woman wearing a baker's hat smiling and proudly showing off a Matzoth. |
| 01:10:44 644.23 |
Ext. WS group of men doing exercises, crowd along the sidelines watching. Man on parallel bars.
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| 01:10:53 653.47 |
WS soccer match.
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| 01:10:56 656.23 |
Runners at starting line ready to take off.
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| 01:10:58 658.48 |
Tilt down on huge crowd of people in the streets some marching one way and others in the opposite direction - strange synchronized marching!
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| 01:11:10 670.67 |
End Reel.
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