Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...
Undated film of Allenby in Palestine, and scenes of the RAF flying display at Hendon and the cerremony of Trooping the Colour, both in 1929, shot by a British medical officer serving with the Iraq Levies, 1920s-1939.
(157A) October 1938: At the beginning of a new Hebrew year the first 'legal' immigrants arrive at the newly constructed port of Tel Aviv from SS Polonia.
(182A) June 1939: After the publication of the British Government's White Paper on ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(22B/second series) June/July 1947: Dr Magnes (President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem) addresses members of UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine), speaking in English at the end of a luncheon; Sandstrom chairman of UNSCOP ...
(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading equipment. Site before settlement (clock - 4.00 am). Jewish Settlement Police move up to site of new ...
(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by hand (guarded by armed horsemen). Bringing in the harvest. Jewish Settlement Police on guard. Harvest ...
(216A) April 1940: (item continued from MGH 1438). Trench digging instruction; training in use of rifle. Pay parade. Scenes in mess - men queue for food and drink, relax in mess hall. Parade on drill square - unidentified British officer takes ...
(16B/second series) July/August 1946: With the leadership of the Jewish Agency imprisoned by the British on 29th June 1946 (called by the Jews 'Black Sabbath') Golda Meir was in acting command of the Jewish Agency. As an act of defiance she ...
(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 ...
(209C) February 1940: "War comes to Palestine", fitting gas masks for children in Tel Aviv.
(No newsreel no; Box 719-21) Spring 1940: "Civilians alert yourselves", ARP activities in Tel Aviv, building shelters.
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(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 ...
(61A) November 1936: High Commissioner Wauchope at official opening ceremony of the Bennison Jewish Hospital near Sharon. Briefly in synch and then being taken around the brand new buildings. The Secretary of the Histradut (the Jewish Labour ...
(9B/second series) September 1945: The first few days of Kibbutz Nitzanim, showing plans and models for the future. Note the Nazi concentration camp numbers tattooed on arms of some kibbutzniks. This kibbutz was largely destroyed in the 1948 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Sergeant Leslie Brower, a signaller in the 2nd Battalion Royal Horse Artillery, records military action in the Western Desert during the Eighth Army offensive of 1942, then off-duty scenes ...
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.
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: REPORT FROM PALESTINE ILLEGAL JEWISH ARMS DUMP FOUND IN MESHEQ YAGUR SPORTS PARADE (WIMBLEDON) THEIR MAJESTIES ATTEND THE CIVIL SERVICE SPORTS CONTEST DUCHESS OF KENT ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: STATESMEN CONFER FOR PEACE 50 YEARS ON WHEELS OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS ; LONDON ; TABLE MOUNTAIN ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA VANCOUVER ; WASHINGTON PALESTINE OUTRAGE! QUEEN OPENS ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: CYCLING MARATHON QUEEN WILHELMINA'S GIFT TO KING NEWS FROM PALESTINE PRIMATE ON PALESTINE SITUATION PEACE-MAKERS HAGGLE OVER VOTING PLAN HOLIDAY SPORTS AT WHITE CITY