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
Film opens showing a muezzin reentering the minaret at the end of Via Dolorosa in the old City of Jerusalem, Palestine. Camera pans down to street level with many pedestrians. Two Palestinian merchants sit outdoors with their display of soap for sale. Closeup of a soap merchant weighing blocks of soap for a customer. Closeup of a hooded man on the street. Another closeup of a young Palestinian woman holding some flowers. A woman with a child in arms carrying a shopping basket, passes a shop keeper polishing brass ware. A merchant combing animal skins. A man pulling a cart loaded with a large bundle of goods along a narrow walkway.
Film opens showing the flying buttresses on Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, Palestine. Scene shifts to merchants moving large bales of goods from a street into a building. Another merchant place a cargo of rugs on the back of his camel. He then feeds his kneeling camel from a bag while he adjusts and ties down his cargo. A donkey carrying large metal storage chests passes him. He completes tying down his load of rugs while his camel happily continues eating. People gather outside where merchants are offering fresh oranges from Jaffa. Customers select oranges from a large barrel and place them in small box. Men carry large woven bags, filled with oranges, on their backs. Fruit merchants tending to their wares. A man cleans cookware, using his feet, as well as his hands. Closeup of his feet scrubbing a pan in circular motion. Closeup of him with a shiny pan in his hands, that he then burnishes over a fire. Views of a young man cleaning cookware with scouring powder.
The monuments and people in ancient city of Jerusalem, Palestine. View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Jewish rabbis pray at the wailing wall. Camera pans upward showing large expanse of wailing wall (also called Western Wall and Buraq Wall). People move out of the temple. Man on donkey. Sweeping view of David's Citadel (Tower of David), Ottoman Walls, and old city.