Summary

JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY

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Title: JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY
File Number: AFP-148A 16mm VTM-148A Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Travelogue
Year: 1931
Subjects: Western Wall
Description: B W 1931 Travelogue film showing architecture, crowds and activities of Jerusalem, 1931. 00:00:28:00 B W 1931 ws Panorama of Jerusalem, very slow PAN over stone buildings. 00:02:00:00 B W 1931 ws Crowds in street, various gateway in city walls. 00:03:04:00 B W 1931 ws Donkeys carrying huge bundles through the streets. 00:03:48:00 B W 1931 ms Thief, taken prisoner, led through streets, tied to man riding horse. (Doesn't immediately read as such.) 00:04:06:00 B W 1931 ws Group of Muslim women sitting on ground, with veils and white shawls. 00:04:10:00 B W 1931 cu Man identified as a Hungarian Jew, with scraggly beard and skullcap, looks quizzically at CAM. 00:04:44:00 B W 1931 ms Woman working at spinning wheel. 00:05:55:00 B W 1931 ws Church of the Holy Sepulchre, INT and EXT according to legend it is built over the burial place of Jesus Christ. 00:06:22:00 B W 1931 ws Dome of the Rock. 00:07:01:00 B W 1931 ws Unidentified mosque (?), built by Muslims in the seventh century: ornate stonework and graceful arches. 00:07:36:00 B W 1931 ws, ms Wailing Wall, Jews praying, various. 00:08:13:00 B W 1931 ws Group of Muslim men, in black robes and white headbands, bowing and then kneeling to pray, in courtyard. 00:08:30:00 B W 1931 ws Panorama of Jerusalem, slow PAN
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