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    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 ...

     
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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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    "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 ...

     
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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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    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 ...

     
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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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    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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    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 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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    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 ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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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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    Gurkha and British troops during the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine Front, November 1917.

    Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, ...

     
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    Spanish language version of a British official film showing the export of meat and sugar from round the world to Britain, and production of fish and bread in the British Isles, early 1918.

    I. Cattle on the plains of ...

     
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    (Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orlans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 1914, the line at the end of 1914, the line after the ...

     
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    "Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British". Mosque of Omar and surrounding buildings. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (60ft).

     
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    GAZA 1918

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    Scenes of Gaza and its surroundings shortly after its capture by British forces, Palestine Front, November 1917.

    (Reel 1) A panorama of Gaza under British occupation. (The two ships described as shallow draft ...

     
  • GENERAL ALLENBY'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
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    I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.

    I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, ...

     
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    HEBRON 1918

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    An RAMC doctor, probably Major Paterson, who was doctor in Hebron for 31 years before the war, talking to a group of Arabs; followed by a slow panorama of Hebron, ending at the mosque. Palestine Front, 1918.

    Notes

    Title: this is taken ...

     
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    The visit of the Duke of Connaught to the Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitoun to review the cadets, part of his tour of Egypt and the Palestine Front between January and March 1918.

    The camp prepares with the ...

     
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    HONDURAS 1918 enhanced entry

    Great Britain

    Aspects of nature and industrial life on Honduras.

    Opening with scenes from Swan Island, the film shows two Europeans offloading supplies from a small motorboat with the help of a Honduran. Shots of fish and crabs are followed by ...

     
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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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    South Africa

    ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.

    "Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe dance and chant inside the cattle kraal watched by young women (24-82); the young warriors dance in front of the young ...

     
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    Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, at their London hotel, 11th October 1918.

    The party of five, with a guide, leave the front of the Hyde Park ...