Brief resume of the history of Palestine from the days of Abraham to the modern days. A missionary at work.

Footage from Palestine.

Introduced by Lord Lee of Fareham, who explains that many doubt the value of the Bible of history. Views are then shown which are associated with stories from the Bible, and the life of Christ.

(5A) April 1935: The ship Roma arrives at Haifa. On board are new immigrants, 'legals' who have the appropriate immigration certificates, and sportsmen arriving for the Maccabiah Sports Games.

(10B) June 1935: Jubilee celebrations for ...

(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 ...

Filmed scenes of Palestine to illustrate Biblical sayings and images.

(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, ...

(92D) June 1937: laying foundation stone for new Hulda Kibbutz. Crowds arrive for ceremony; Palestinian 'fellahin' at ceremony; speeches by unknown settlers who read a scroll outlining the purpose of the kibbutz which is then buried in the ...

(26A) August 1935: Slum clearance in the poor Maccabi neighbourhood.

(30A) September 1935: New immigrants on SS Tel Aviv en route to Palestine, dancing Horah, etc. The coast seen is that of Crete. The immigrants boarded at Trieste in ...

(128A) February 1938: New High Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael arrives at Haifa to take up his new office.

(129A) March 1938: Fire in a timber warehouse at Rehovoth. Firemen. Palestinian Police head out with tracking dogs. (This fire ...

(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 ...

(147A) July 1938: Building of the Maale Hachamisha Kibbutz (chamisha means five in Hebrew). This kibbutz was built in memory of five young Jews killed on the site during an Arab guerrilla raid; halfway on the road between Jerusalem and Tel ...