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- BFI identifier48074
- Date1947-02 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA report on the conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine. (Synopsis) Palestine and its modern political problems: case of the Arabs and the Jews. This Modern Age series no.6. (Synopsis) Rl. 1. General shot of a town (70-80). Women drawing water froma well and filling their pots (97). Fishermen casting their nets on the lake of Galilee (102). Hills; view of Jerusalem (115). British soldiers (118), fighter planes, and anti-aircraft post (122), warship (124), sentry (127), fortress tower (129), soldiers posted near a crowded street (133). Shots of crowds showing Arabs and Jews (156). A priest in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre blesses pilgrims (170). Ext. view of the Dome of the Rock (176), and Jews praying at the Wailing Wall (185). Ruined buildings, fallen columns of earlier civilisations (213). The desert: Arabs, camels and goats (223). Map of Eastern Mediterranean showing the position of Palestine (235). Shots of Suez Canal (248). The map shows oilfields in Iran and Iraq and some pipelines through Palestine (254). Shots of pipes (264); a tanker being filled (271). "WORLD WAR 1914-1918" Commonwealth cavalry advancing into Palestine (288). Arabs, including King Fesial I of Iraq, stand up as T.E. Lawrence comes towards them and shakes Feisal's hand; MCU Feisal (297); further shot of the group (302). Lawrence and others driving in a jeep followed by Arab horsemen (309). British infantry (314). General Allenby, followed by other officers, marches into Jerusalem (323). The Confernce room at Versailles (337). The occasion of the Balfour Declaration (342). MCU Woodrow Wilson (347). HAS Jewish demonstrators in USA (360). Palestine becomes a mandated territory under British care. Jewish migrants dancing on board ship (379-389). Reclamation of desert (413); building houses (420); opening irrigation channels, shots of fruit growing (438). Members of the Kibbutz Council discussing the managment of their community (460). Other settlers asked to vote (471). Activities in the Kibbutz (509). A group setting out for the fields, planting, ploughing, harvesting with help of modern machinery (544). Children's activities; in the nursery, at physical training (PT), dancing, with pets, and helping to keep animals (588). An older group listens to a storyteller (605). A group of musicians walking while playing their instruments (624); dancers performing (638). A meeting of the executive of the Histadruth - Confederation of Jewish Labour (656). View of the Mount of Olives with the Hadassah Hospital and World Centre of Jewish Learning (679). A modern train contrasted with two Arabs winnowing by hand (716). A new winnowing machine owned co-operatively by Jews and Arabs (731). Arab tents in the desert (738). A patrol detachment from the Camel Corps rides into the camp (755). A Jewish fort with armed guards (776). Scenes in 1939 as Jews read newspapers announcing stricter controls on Jewish immigration (790). Military parade at Jerusalem marking victory in World War II (803-827). Illegal immigrants on overcrowded ships (850). Ext the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem (860). Chaim Weizmann and his wife (871). AV Nahalal (877) and other cities (893). An Arab looking down over a town (900-910). Rl. 2. Shots of the countryside (18). An Arab community, the children (46) and market place (62). Arab agricultural achievements: tractor, small irrigation works, fruit picking (97). Students from the government agricultural college working in the fields (117). A welfare centre at Acre: children playing (131), learning weaving (141), swimming (179). Students in the library of the Arab teacher-training college, and in the laboratory (197). The government agricultural officer at Nablus, Abdel Rakim (?) in his office (211), and talking to a group of Arab farmers (223). The first general meeting of Arab Trades Unions delegates in 1946 (244). Trades union leaders bargaining with factory owners (268). Buildings in an old part of a town (277). The mayor and councillors of Jaffa at a town planning meeting (295). The more wealthy Arabs in a village contributing money for community use (308). The £12,000 collected pays for a school which the villagers build themselves: shots of men dressing stone blocks, building walls, putting the keystone in an archway (380). Children going into the school (403). A portrait of the Grand Mufti (Jaj Amin el Husseini) hangs over the street (409-411). Explosions during the Arab terrorist campaign (426); British troops search suspects and fire on terrorists (463). MCU Grand Mufti (470). Further shots of fighting during World War II which hindered Britain's struggle against the Axis powers (500). A `wanted' poster for Jewish terrorists (514). British troops in 1946: setting up road-blcoks, searching cars and passers-by (555). Soldiers carry away a struggling terrorist (606). Troops seaching for arms dumps: using tractor to move bales of straw, and mine detectors; carrying away armfuls of weapons and displaying them in the road (637). The King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 after terrorists blew up one wing; also shots of troops digging, and bodies (677). Troops at gun-posts in Jerusalem (716); locked gates, deserted streets, British patrols (760). Arab children carrying picturs of the Mufti (770). The Mufti's cousin, Jamal Husseini, with members of the Arab Higher Committee (793). Stills of the Mufti in Germany with Muslim SS troops which are claimed by Arabs to be propaganda (8O6). Captured German newsreel `Die Deutsche Wochenschau' shows the Mufti reviewing Muslim troops of the Wermacht; various shots of the Mufti saluting as he walks past soldiers, being introduced to soldiers, saluting as troops parade past him and other officers (865). Aran boy-scouts on parade (894). The burial of some British troops (935). Shots of the countryside 9949). Map of the Eastern Mediterrean showing the oilfields and new oil concessions granted to the Americans (970). Final shots of children swimming and playing as the commentary calls for co-opertaion from all countries to make Palestine a land of promise for everyone (1033). The End (1043) (1953ft). (Shotlist)
- Work historyDocumentary short.
- SubjectLawrence, T.E. (1888-1935)
Palestine
Galilee
Jerusalem
Israeli Palestinian conflict
British Army
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)
Wailing Wall
Suez Canal
Faisal (1905-1975)
Israeli International Children's Film Festival
Oil fields
World War I
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Protest demonstrations
International migration
Jewish people
Kibbutzim
World War II
Tel Aviv-Yafo
SS
United States of America
Arab people
Treaty of Versailles
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Dome of the Rock
Mount of Olives
Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952)
Husayni, Amin al (1897-1974)
Deutsche Wochensaue
Dance
Military Inspections
Islam
Scouts
Building
Education
Farming
Immigration - Credits
Title
Palestine (Original)
Category
Non FictionThis work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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