Holy Land - From Abraham To Allenby: Reel-2

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keywords: middle east, palestine, travelogue, historical, plowing a field, camel trade caravan, bedouin camp, crossing desert, muslims in prayer

Synopsis: Egypt ancient irrigation and farming techniques, camel train crossing desert, Bedouin camp life, Nile River cargo boats and Muslims in prayer....(read more)

Date: 1940's
Duration: 00:09:22
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Middle East, Palestine

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Holy Land From Abraham To Allenby: Reel-2

Holy Land - From Abraham To Allenby: Reel-2

Men using oxen to plow field, seed field by hand. Ancient devises to move or lift irrigation water. Shows how fields were irrigated by manpower with use of a shadoof (shaduf). Shows the use of the Archimedean screw to raise water to level of irrigation ditch. Shows man making bricks using mud and straw for brick material. Camel train or caravan crossing desert, desert scene showing one lone tree. Shows dust devil (dustdevil) whipped up by the wind moving across desert. CU view of camel's feet, shows camels kneeling. Bedouins make camp, women hammer tent pegs into ground and raise tents. Men and children in tent eating with fingers from communal bowl.

Next day, the women "break camp" and load tents onto the camels, one camel struggling to get to feet. Children strapped into litters on camels back. Antler shaped litter on camel's back in which sheiks wives travel. Tribe crossing desert. CU faces of Bedouin men seated. Nile river with cargo boats, Dhows. Nomads getting water from deep desert well; consists of four men pulling over 100yds of rope to get one bucket of water. Children playing in pool at oasis. Camels standing in water - animals drinking from pool. Aerial views of mountains. Shows a model of the Tabernacle Moses built at Mount Sinai. Muslims (Moslems) praying outside tent. Bedouin trial in a tent. A Sheikh speaking to accused as others listen.

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Ancient devises to move or lift irrigation water; a shadoof (shaduf) and a Archimedean screw

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Camel train or caravan crossing desert, desert scene showing one lone tree

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Footage of "dust devil" whipped up by the wind moving across desert

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CU view of camel's feet, camels kneeling, Bedouins make camp

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Child strapped into litter on camels back, antler shaped litter on camel's back in which sheiks wives travel

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Scenes of activity at a desert oasis