(49A) Winter 1935/36: Celebrations in Biyat Vagin on planting trees.

(41B) November/December 1935: Municipal elections in Tel Aviv and electioneering.

(70C) January 1937: High Commissioner Wauchope visits Itzhar cosmetic factory.

(103C) September 1937: Young German immigrants from Youth Aliyah ("youth wave of immigration") dance the Horah on board ship en route for Palestine.

(127C) February 1938: High Commissioner Wauchope is about to leave Palestine and pays a farewell visit to Hadera and to Padres Chana where he plants a tree.

(132A) March 1938: During the course of the Arab General Strike of April-October 1936 the Jews built their own provisional, shallow-water harbour at Tel Aviv to get round the blockade by the strike-ridden docks of Haifa and Jaffa. This film is of the first "legal" immigrants arriving at this harbour disembarking out at sea from SS Egytto and SS Polonia and going ashore by tender with their baggage. High Commissioner MacMichael is seen with Mayor Rokach of Tel Aviv on the jetty at the opening ceremony of the harbour. Immigrants pass through passport and immigration control.

Extracts from a series of newsreels produced for the Jewish audience in Palestine, 1929-1947.

Notes

Documentation/associated material: Axelrod catalogue (held in photocopy form by Film and Video Archive).

Technical: item 103c was copied from a 35mm dupe neg not the original neg.