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OSS officers' cottage in Cairo and enlisted personnel aboard the boat 'Lotus' in the Middle East.

Office of Strategic Services officers on a mission in the Middle East during World War II. Officers' cottage in Cairo, Egypt. An officer climb down steps. Boat "Lotus" in a dock area. Enlisted personnel aboard the boat "Lotus".

Date: 1945
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058178
A jeep is driven to a transmitter and a OSS receiving station and Security Officer Training Camp in the Middle East.

OSS or Office of Strategic Services officers on a mission in the Middle East during World War II. A jeep drives to a communication transmitter located at Kilo 13 outside Cairo, Egypt. An officer seated in a jeep talks to a personnel. Personnel work at a station. The jeep drives 3 miles away to a receiving station. Chief of Communications Major Porter. Personnel work at the stations. A jeep and a truck driven towards Security Officer Training Camp which is 164 miles north west of Cairo. The camp area and tents. Cadets move towards the tents.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058179
An oil tanker takes on oil at a Red Sea port in the Middle East.

An oil tanker at a port in the Middle East. An oil tanker at a Red Sea port. Officers at the port. Crew members pull hoses. Oil tanker takes oil at the port. A man climbs up a ladder. Hoses laid at the port. A military officer is greeted by nuns.

Date: 1962, April 20
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Arabic
Clip: 65675022132
Signing of a 5 year mutual defense pact by Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal in Middle East.

War erupts along the Israel Egyptian border in Middle East. View of the Israeli port under armed guard. U.S. aircraft carrier ship docked at the harbor. Mass rally by the Arab Socialists supporting the Egyptian President Abdel Nasser in Cairo. Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal sign a 5 year mutual defense pact. Jordanian Infantry advances in the desert. Israeli chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin inspects troops in Negev desert. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier on lookout holding a UZI sub machine gun during the Arab-Israeli Six Day War.

Date: 1967, June 6
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072476
Muslim farmers and artisans using ancient methods as they work in the Middle East

Moslem farmers in the Middle East use ancient methods in agriculture. Opening scene shows Arab farmers plowing a field with a wooden plow pulled by a team of oxen. A farmer irrigates a field using a manual, counterbalanced bucket device. Glimpse of a small child stepping in front of the camera. Water flowing in an irrigation ditch. A group of farmers bending low over a field as they harvest grain by hand, using large knives. Men using teams of oxen to work the ground. A woman diggin clay for use in pottery making. Another woman creating a large pot from clay. Women at work on a loom. Metal artisans working at a stall in an outdoor market. Closeup of a man hammering designs on outer edges of a large metal tray.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072700
Education in the Muslim world of the Middle East

Boys asembled at a madrassa Islamic school outside a mosque in the Middle East. They sit on a large rug on the ground. Their shoes are off (on the ground near the rug). Their teacher, dressed in black, holds a stick as he conducts their study. The students sway forward and back as they recite passages from the Koran. At the end of the scene, one of the boys is playfully roughed up by several others. Scene shifts to the Al Azhar Mosque and its Minarets in Cairo, Egypt. (The Al Azhar University is associated with it.) Next, a public scribe is seen writing a letter for an illiterate customer. Closeup of the scribe writing in ink.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072701