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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.

Location: Middle East
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.

Location: Middle East
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072701
Allied leaders attend the Cairo Conference and the Tehran Conference in the Middle East during World War II.

Allied leaders at conferences in the Middle East during World War II. Aerial views of pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife Madame Chiang Kai-shek seated during the Cairo Conference. Allied officers stand behind the seated leaders. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in Tehran, Iran. Churchill's daughter Sarah, an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, is introduced to Premier Stalin by President Roosevelt. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov stand behind the Big Three with other officials. During a ceremony, Winston Churchill presents the Sword of Stalingrad to Premier Stalin which he accepts on behalf of Russian people. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall present.

Location: Middle East
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073830
People gather to receive their relatives and meet their family members at a harbor in Middle East

People meet relatives and friends at a harbor in Middle East. A large crowd gathers on a pier. At the terminal building, a man waves the flag of Lebanon. A ship arrives and people disembark from the ship. Some enthusiastic greeters climb up side of ship. Life preserver on ship shows name SS Mir...(remaining letters obscured) and registered port of Monrovia. People meet their relatives. Two men hug each other and smile. A man with his family members.

Location: Middle East
Date: 1953
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045316
Scenes of Berlin divided by newly built Berlin Wall. Unrest in the city after division into East and West Berlin, Germany

The divided city of Berlin, Germany caused by the erection of the Berlin Wall. Shows early scenes of the Berlin Wall being built. Opening scene shows camera pan from Brandenburg Gate down to street level where East German construction workers are using a jack hammer and hand digging a trench across the middle of the street to serve as foundation for the Berlin Wall. A Soviet guard watches over the construction workers. East Germans and Soviet Russians walking with a spool of razor wire, putting up barbed wire barricades along other sections of the dividing border. German citizens gathered along the wall as it is built in a field area. Several young men in suits being pushed and harassed by a guard on the East German side of the Berlin Wall. View of a railroad train track that has been cut, and workers digging a deep trench at the site to build the wall right through the run of railroad track. East German refugees walking through a checkpoint area, desperate to leave east Germany before total closure of the border occurred. Refugees gathered in crowded shelters with mattresses on the ground. Young children and babies sleeping on mats. Views of barbed wire crossing railroad track runs. Animated map showing routing of aircraft for the Berlin Airlift in response to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948. Riots on the streets of East Berlin. Views of various aircraft flying overhead, bringing supplies to citizens during the blockade. Relief supplies and food being unloaded at airport for citizens. People waving white handkerchiefs in the air to express thanks as a Berlin Airlift airplane passes overhead. People in East Germany throw stones at a Russian tank in the streets as a crowd of protestors gathers. A burning building with smoke pouring from its windows. Views of successful German industry and commerce in West Berlin. People working in West Berlin. German people shop in stores. A boy adds a bar of chocolate to a shopping basket. Men working in large industrial plants and factories. Large Siemens equipment in use in an electrical transmission component factory. A scientist or engineer looking through a microscope like device.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1961, August
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076563
President Lyndon Johnson gives a speech calling for Middle East peace at dinner celebrating 125th Anniversary Meeting of B'nai B'rith

Portion of speech by President Lyndon Johnson given at a dinner celebrating the 125th Anniversary Meeting of B'nai B'rith, at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. He urges the leaders of the Middle East to talk about issues of tension so as to establish peace in the region. President Johnson calls for dialog in the region. He says it is time, "to begin talking the substance of peace." He urges the leaders of the Middle East to talk about issues of tension so as to establish peace in the region.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1968, September 10
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038583
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