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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.
The life of Jewish people in different Zionist colonies in Palestine
Life in a Zionist workers'colony in Palestine (later Israel). The Moshav Nahalal colony where every farmer has his own backyard. A farmers looks at domestic animals in his backyard. The boys and girls in the family of a farmer seated around a table and eating a meal. A farmer washes his hand and his wife milks a cow. Farmers at a milk plant. The milk is collected. A woman washes clothes. A communal colony or commune or kibbutz where the standard of living is very low. People live in straw houses and own nothing. People in the colony. The Geva colony (kibbutz) where the standard of living is very high. View of well established buildings. Mothers who take turns caring for the community's children. Two young children in a pram. Several two and three year old children taking shower baths under supervision of one of the mothers. Children in a play room. Children having a communal meal. Men and women harvesting grapes. People walking to a communal dining room. The communal laundry with clothes drying on a line. Members of the Kibbutz planning communal working activities.
Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini in exile; People light up tapers from the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Palestine
Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem, Palestine. Soldiers stand with guns. The former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, seated at a desk and in discussion. The Holy Fire ceremony in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A congregation stampedes as people light up candles from the holy fire. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Forces officers confer with General Electric executives about producing America's first turbojet airplane engine
Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.
U.S. Army Air Forces officers consulting with General Electric executives about manufacture of turbojet airplane engine.
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
German diplomats, Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Doctor Johannes Bacher arrive at La Guardia Airport in New York City.
German diplomats being expelled from the United States. They arrive at LaGuardia airport prior to their departure by ship. Seen are Captain Fritz Wiedemann, former German consul general in San Francisco, and Dr. Johannes Bacher, former German consul general in New York. The men smile and talk to the press on the airport ramp. Their baggage being unloaded from the plane.
