Unedited film of the Nebi-Nusa festivals, the arrival of the International Zionist Commission, and the visit of Egyptian 1st Infantry Regiment to the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, April 1918.
This is the unedited ...
Unedited film of the Nebi-Nusa festivals, the arrival of the International Zionist Commission, and the visit of Egyptian 1st Infantry Regiment to the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, April 1918.
This is the unedited ...
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 ...
"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...
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 ...
Mixed film of British, Indian and Jewish forces, including the meeting of General Allenby with Chaim Weizmann in Jerusalem, Palestine Front, May 1918.
(Reel 1) An auction of British Army horses to civilians. A troop ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cartoon of the British military and industrial contribution to the Western Front up to the end of 1917.
The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to ...
An athletics meeting for servicemen and women from Britain, the Imperial forces and the US Army at Stamford Bridge football ground, Fulham, London, 7th September 1918.
The film starts with a posed group of the RAF ...
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 ...