the NEBI-NUSA FESTIVALS : scenes and incidents en route [Main]


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  • Rok: 1919
  • Minutáž: 20 mins
  • Popis: I. The Nebi-Nusa festivals of 26 April. Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Storrs, the military governor of Jerusalem, helps assemble the sacred banners, and they are taken in a procession, which includes some Arab soldiers, to the Mount of Olives with much dancing and singing. II. The arrival of the Zionist Commission, headed by Dr Chaim Weizmann, in Jerusalem on 3 April. The commission includes Major E A de Rothschild. On 11 April they go in procession to the Mount of Olives to deliver speeches, accompanied by members of the Maccabi Athletic Association and the banners of various Jewish workers' associations. The West Wall (or Wailing Wall) of the Temple of Solomon is also shown. III. The Great Mosque of Omar, guarded by 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles. Soldiers of Egyptian 1st Infantry Regiment, headed by a band including bagpipers, marches to the mosque. The Egyptians remove their boots before entering the mosque. Lieutenant-Colonel Storrs converses with the officers of the battalion while they wait.
    Scenes of the Nebi-Nusa festivals, the arrival of the Zionist Commission, and the Grand Mosque of Omar, all in Jerusalem, April 1918.
  • Klíčová slova: EFG1914 / World War I / Storrs, Ronald Henry Amherst / Weizmann, Chaim Azriel / Rothschild, E A de / Indian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force) / Egyptian Army & Infantry Regt 1 / Zionist organisation & International Zionist Commission / Zionist organisation & Maccabi Athletic Association / administration, British - occupation / delegations, Zionist - political / ceremonies, Palestinian - event-related: Nebi-Nusa / religion, Islam - military, Egyptian / equipment, Egyptian - personal: bagpipes / buildings, Palestinian - religious: mosque / celebrations, Palestinian - popular: Nebi-Nusa / society, Palestinian - ethnic / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Jerusalem, Palestine
  • Poskytovatel: Imperial War Museums
  • Práva: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produkční společnost: Jury's Imperial Pictures
  • Barva: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound