SCENES ON THE EUPHRATES - MESOPOTAMIA [Main]


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  • Alternativ tittel: ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA (further episode) (?) [related]
  • År: 1918
  • Lengde: 11 mins
  • Beskrivelse: I. The film opens with the Hindiya barrage dam across the Euphrates. The local population fish from small circular coracles, called 'sufas', while others carry pots and loads of fish, and wash the fish roes using a sieve. Others hang up the fish to dry on racks. Near Babylon, grain harvesting is taking place, with the grain being threshed and the chaff winnowed by hand. Pottery is made on a handwheel. II. This is followed by a street scene at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion shortly after its capture by the British in September 1917. It is a Saturday afternoon, a brass band from the Australian Light Horse arrives and begins to play from the bandstand. III. A final scene shows the streets of Hebron, followed by a view of the entrance to the mosque of the Tombs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
    Everyday life in the Euphrates valley, at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion, and at Hebron and Abraham's Tomb on the Palestine Front, 1917-1918.
  • Nøkkelord: EFG1914 / World War I / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / Australian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Australian Army, Australian Light Horse / engineering, civil, Turkish: dam / agriculture, Mesopotamian - fisheries: [+] / society, Mesopotamian - ethnic / agriculture, Mesopotamian - arable / arts, Mesopotamian - ethnic / industry, Mesopotamian - craft / buildings, Jewish - residential / society, Jewish - ethnic / buildings, Palestinian - religious: mosque / 01/3(567) / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Euphrates River, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Hindiya, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Rishon le Zion, Palestine / Turkey & Hebron, Palestine / desert
  • Leverandør: Imperial War Museums
  • Rettigheter: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produksjonsselskap: Jury's Imperial Pictures
  • Farge: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound