(No newsreel no; Box 415) November 1929: After the riots in Palestine in August 1929 the British set up a Royal Commission under Sir Walter Shaw to investigate the causes of the disturbances. This shows the Commission arriving at the residence of the Mayor of Tel Aviv, Dizengoff

(No newsreel no; Box 417) April 1934: The funeral of Moussa Kassim Pasha who had been for many years the head of the Arab Executive Committee. His death cleared the way for a change in the leadership of the Palestinians and removed the last obstacle to the unrivalled ascendancy of the Mufti, Haj 'amin el-Husseini. An event of some importance in the history of the Mandate, witness the British officials and Arab leaders who attended the funeral en masse.

(No newsreel no; Box 73) 1936-39: "Unsafe Roads", short item showing roads during the Arab Rebellion guarded by both the Palestine Police (dark uniforms) and the specially raised Jewish Defence Forces (light uniforms).

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).

Summary: the first two items were not filmed by Axelrod himself but ended up in his collection because at the time his was the only film laboratory in Palestine and these negatives somehow stayed on in the lab. Quality of the nitrate originals for the second and third items (the third was filmed by Axelrod) is so poor that the quality of this copy material is similarly very disappointing.