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British soldiers rescue survivors from the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem

Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem. British soldiers pulling out an injured man from the ruins of the Goldsmith Officers Club. Rescue workers carry wounded to an ambulance. An empty street and its buildings after the declaration of Martial Law in Palestine. Laundry hanging in a courtyard outside a building. British soldiers lay down barbed wire on the street. A Bedford MW 4x2 truck with British troops drives away. Some soldiers march on foot. A group of universal carriers (also known as Bren gun carriers) drive through the streets. Some Palestinian civilians watch the universal carriers from the sidewalk. A white truck with the Star of David drives past a universal carrier. A British solider guards two suspects as they walk down a road.

Date: 1947, March 1
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079960
European Jews arriving in Palestine from Europe after WWII

Jewish refugees from Europe arriving in Palestine after World War 2. Crowd of people enter a railway car. Police guarding security check point made of sandbags outside train station as a convoy of military trucks carrying Jewish passengers pulls up. Jewish women and men climb down from back of a truck. An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Palestinian women and men in train platform. Sign above platform directs travelers to different platforms for Jerusalem and Haifa. Smiling Jewish families, including a small boy holding his father's hand, queue up at the railroad train station. People waving good-bye from train windows as train departs the station.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078611
British soldiers rescue survivors after the Irgun bombing of Goldsmith Officers Club in Palestine

British troops rescue victims trapped in building following the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem. A bulldozer clears away debris in front of the ruined building. More distant view of the Goldsmith Officers Club building after the terrorist bombing. A British soldier holds a rifle while in prone position. A survivor climbs down hook and ladder stairs during the rescue operation. Officer attends to wounded comrade behind barbed wire. Rescue workers carry a man on a stretcher. A British soldier sits in turret of an Otter armoured car while a Red Cross ambulance drives attends to the scene.

Date: 1947, March 1
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079961
Views of Jerusalem and surroundings with both Jewish and Arab residents in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Late 1930s and early 1940s life in Jerusalem, Palestine. Views from 1917 era as British military patrol under British Army General Edmund Allenby advances in military trucks up the plains from Gaza. Arab forces riding on camels. The Arabs move in support. Jerusalem is captured by the British in 1917. British men in the city. Jerusalem aerial view of late 1930s and approximately 1940 "new" Jerusalem contrasting the ancient and old parts of the city and new buildings. Narrator descriptions and visual portrayals of nationalism among Jewish and Arab residents in Jerusalem. Jewish men construct what the narrator terms as "a typical Zionist house just going up" Jewish civilians walking on the streets including one woman pushing a baby carriage. Cars move on a street and a view of a bus moving up Queen Mary Avenue. Jewish residents at a beach of Tel Aviv. They enjoy the water and dance the hora at the water's edge. A British man teaches an Arabic farmer the modern methods of agriculture. Men harvest food grains with a harvester. Arab boys in a class get a proper education "as in Europe." Palestinian girls in dresses play a game of basketball. The ex mayor of Jerusalem Hussein al-Khalidi in the center and other people around him.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047423
British soldiers driving convoy of GMC OTTER Light Reconnaissance Cars patrol Jerusalem.

Convoy of GMC OTTER Light Reconnaissance Cars driven by British soldiers travel the streets of Jerusalem. Aerial view of convoy navigating city streets. Point of view footage riding in convoy of GMC OTTER Light Reconnaissance Cars in Jerusalem as the convoy passes the Jaffa Gate and Tower of David on highway 60. View of GMC OTTER Light Reconnaissance Cars convoy as it passes in front of the Tower of David. British men wearing suits along with traditional Arab agal with ghutrah head dresses smoke hookahs with Arab men next to a tent.

Date: 1947, February
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078640
Views of Jerusalem, Palestine, while under British Administration, in 1932.. Important buildings and ruins. Typical Street scenes.

Film 'The city of David' depicts notable landmarks and people in Jerusalem, Palestine. Film begins showing the Islamic shrine, the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount (Qubbat al-Sakhra in Arabic or Kippat ha-Sela in Hebrew) in Jerusalem, Palestine. Film focuses on the city walls and some of its gates. Palestinians are seen walking near the Damascus gate. The Citadel (Tower of David) atop the walls. Visitors in Western clothes are seen entering through the wide Jaffa Gate (Omar Ibn Katab, Jerusalem). Local people enter and leave through another gate to David Street. Scene shifts to narrow walkways filled with shops and pedestrians, within sight of city Wall in the background. Camera pans down from rooftop to the narrow lane of shops and pedestrians

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032033