Iranian oil well drilling operations. Pipe lifted in derrick. Roughneck crew rotates pipe and adds sections as drilling progresses. Cable block and tackle raises and lowers pipe.
A child selling melons in an open air food market in Iran. Flies flying over the food. Native people wash clothes in a gutter and perform various chores. Natives fill water from a dirty river. Natives swimming in the river. Buffaloes bathing in the river.
Arabian City of Dubai, and environs during period of British rule (before creation of United Arab Emirates). Waterfront scene dominated by Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque in Dubai . (This is number 3, of three mosques by that name in the area, and is located on the creek in the old Bur Dubai part of the city.) Numerous boats and merchants clog the Dubai creek. Merchants unload their wares from boats. Trucks and businessmen line the wharf near the creek. Pottery is being carefully unloaded from a boat, one piece at a time and passed to a man who places them in a push cart. An oasis with palm trees A woman scoops a bucket of water.Two men are seen baking Arabian flat bread over fires. A boy washes himself in a pond.
Life in oasis village. A man cuts meat while another keeps flies away by waving a flag-like fan. Women and children watch. People gather to fill water containers at community pump. Some carry filled containers home on their heads. A man showers from a bucket at the pump.
Nomads migrating from one place to other in Iran. Several children seen in the caravan. Sheep and cows of the nomads on the mountain terrain. American Army Captain, wearing a holstered 46 caliber pistol, and an Iranian officer discuss paperwork with the nomadic leader. The nomad tribe and their livestock completely fill the road. Small children help herd the livestock. The nomads and animals completely engulf a convoy of U.S. army trucks lined up on the road.
Nomads in their camps in Iran. A horse in the foreground. Several men stand in a group. Nomads dance in a group in the camps. Nomads in camps cooking food. A man and a woman sit and stir the food.
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