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    Unedited film of boats on the River Nile carrying compressed horse fodder ('tiffin'), Egypt, 1918 (?).

    The first boat, a steamer, tows two barges, followed by a Victoria Shipping Line steamer 'pushing' its barges. A ...

     
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    III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or Moslem women.

    IV. Some of the prisoners are ...

     
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    I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.

    II. Arab workers filling bottles and operating machinery in the British ...

     
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    Unedited film of British, Indian and Australian forces, mainly playing various sports, Palestine Front, July 1918.

    Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are ...

     
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    Wine production at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion, followed by the arrival of dignitaries for the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Jewish University, both Palestine, summer 1918.

    A group of ...

     
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    The procession of the Manunal leaving Cairo, August 1918.

    The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and ...

     
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    King George V's visit to the British Army in France and Belgium, 1st-9th December 1918.

    The King (in Field Marshal's uniform) with the Prince of Wales, General Sir William Birdwood and other officers inspects graves, ...

     
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    Somewhat muddled footage principally showing the ruins at Baalbec, and the arrival of British troops in a middle-eastern town, presumably also in Palestine, 1918.

    Views of the ruins of Baalbec, with occasional ...

     
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    Unedited film of General Sir Edmund Allenby's arrival in Cairo following the Armistice with Turkey, November 1918.

    The film may be out of time-sequence. It shows General Allenby talking to senior officers (none ...

     
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    Portrait shots of British generals of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and of General Sir Edmund Allenby, 1918.

    I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed ...

     
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    ARMAGEDDON 1918

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    Jumbled material of the British forces on the Palestine Front, 1918 (?).

    All very dark, poor quality film. It includes scenes of Gurkhas in trenches, 60-pounder guns firing, British soldiers walking through a lemon ...

     
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    Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain at the start of the First World War, 1914-1916.

    Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September ...