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.
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).
Test of Higgins Boats in Louisiana, United States. A 45 foot Higgins steel engine powered tank lighter boat in Lake Pontchartrain. People and tank on the boat. The panel of the boat opens and works as a landing ramp for the tank. The tank runs over the ramp and enters the water. The panel closes again.
Test of Higgins Boat in Louisiana, United States. A 45 foot Higgins steel engine powered tank lighter boat in Lake Pontchartrain. The boat hits the shore, lowers its bow ramp and a tractor drives off the boat on to the shore. The tractor drives away from the shore, and the boat moves away into the water. In different sequence, the empty boat comes to the shore and lowers its bow door ramp. The tractor arrives and backs onto the boat. A photographer takes closeup pictures during this process, With the tractor on board, the boat raises and closes its bow ramp door, and proceeds away carrying the tractor. The process is repeated. (Note:This film is silent. But "motorboating" sound was inadvertently generated when its perforations were scanned. This background sound is heard continuously although the film is "silent.")
Test of Higgins Boats in Louisiana, United States. A 45 foot Higgins steel engine powered tank lighter boat in Lake Pontchartrain. The boat hits the beach. The ramp panel of the boat lowers down. People get on the boat and the panels closes.
Test of Higgins Boats in Louisiana, United States. A 36 foot Higgins Eureka landing boat in Lake Pontchartrain . A car is loaded on the boat. The boat sails away. The boat comes to the beach and unloads the car.
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