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Call to prayer and camels. Algeria, 1947
Clip 1 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. Arabs gather for prayer as a call is made from a minaret. A map shows the layout of Algeria and highlights Bou Saada. Scenes of...
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Swimming pool, bread-making, jugs, and sheep shearing. Algeria, 1947
Clip 5 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. A map highlights the route between Ouargla and Touggourt. Scenes of town life, and a swimming pool. A man steps on bread dough. Men...
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Tipaza coast and ruins. Young women and men on the beach. Algiers, 1961
Clip 5 from the 1961 film 'De quel amour blessec', which shows images from Algeria through the centuries from the perspective of four writers: Apulece, Saint Augustin, Ibn Khaldoun et Albert Camus. Scenes from Tipaza, including footage...
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Death in a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, 1940s
Scenes of death and poverty in a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Corpses laying on the street are put into makeshift coffins, and some are wheeled to mass graves, where they are slid down through a chute,
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Scenes of animals and desert in a small town. New Mexico c.1950.
Clip 2 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Scenes of canyons, horses and other animals in a small town in New Mexico, home to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Psychotherapy progress on child suffering from maternal deprivation, c.1950
Science / Psychotherapy. A clinical and outdated look on psycho-therapeutic treatments in children suffering from maternal deprivation following separation at early age. Institutionalised children suffering from isolation, mournful...
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GV shots of Nazereth, and the Church of the Annunciation. Man rides donkey over the hills. Shot of Christian church, Israel 1940s
Clip 3 from 'Le Chemin des Croisades', a French language film about Israel in the 1940s/1950s. GV shots of Nazereth, and the Church of the Annunciation. Man rides donkey over the hills. Shot of Christian church.
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Builders constructing walls. New Mexico c.1950.
Clip 4 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Townspeople build walls using clay and straw. Builders smooth down the wall mix with their hands.
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Sailors working in the heat. Cruisers arriving in Djibouti and sailors on leave in the streets. Djibouti, 1945
Clip 4 from the 1945 film 'Escales Imperiales' (Imperial Ports of Call), which highlights the maritime routes linking the French empire into one vast network. Sailors working in the heat and officers making calculations on a sea chart....
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Hospitals and medicine. Algeria, 1947
Clip 4 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. A map highlights the location of Ouargla and Touggourt. A caravan of camels moves through the desert. Scenes of nurses taking care...
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Scouts of France part 1 - boys hike, wash in stream, line up for uniform inspection, and pray. 1940s.
Clip from short film promoting boy scouts in France, 1940s.
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Children escape a shark by sculling away on a rowing boat, USA, 1940s-1950s
Children escape a shark by sculling away on a rowing boat, USA, 1940s-1950s
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Re-enacted C19th street scene with street entertainment - monkey on stilts and strongman lifting dumbbells. Filmed in 1947.
Clip 1 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration.
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Camels drinking from trough, fishermen pulling nets out of the Sea of Galilee, Israel 1940s
Clip 7 from 'Le Chemin des Croisades', a French language film about Israel in the 1940s/1950s. Camels drinking from trough. Sea of Galilee / Lake Tiberias, where Jesus met his future disciples. Fishermen pull the fishing net out of water...
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Sailors working and relaxing on board cruiser. Algeria, 1945
Clip 2 from the 1945 film 'Escales Imperiales' (Imperial Ports of Call), which highlights the maritime routes linking the French empire into one vast network. Several views of cruisers at sea. Dormitory, bugle sounding, sailors having a...
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Boy Eats Fruit, 1940s
1940s: Boy eats fruit. Boy pours milk from thermos into cup and drinks it. Boys around fire roast apples on sticks.
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Venereal diseases (VD) - Taking Chances
For sailors on shoreleave, explains the risks you take (like gonorrhea) when you go out with easy girls but it doesn't really show the girls, just sailors at a carnival and talking with their ship's doctor.
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Newspaper Boy Asking Man for Apple, 1940s
1940s: Boy leans against fence and speaks. Man leans from window and talks to boy. Boy climbs over fence and tosses newspaper to man. Man speaks and re-enters window. Boy jumps for apples in tree.
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Fairground caravan traveling through countryside towards Fontainebleau. Fairground people arrive and register. 1947
Clip 2 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Shot of a shakespearean-looking play in a theatre. Fairground caravan traveling through countryside towards Fontainebleau. Fairground people...
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Children buy ice cream and candy floss at a fairground in France. Play games for prizes. Acrobats perform. 1947
Clip 6 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Children buy ice cream and candy floss. Acrobats perform tricks. Children play games for prizes. GV of fairground and a bunch of balloons.
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Scouts of France part 2 - boys prepare and eat dinner outdoors, write letters, sew socks, etc 1940s
Clip from short film promoting boy scouts in France, 1940s.
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A new teacher visits a school for young women. France, 1942
Clip 1 from the 1942 French film 'Francaises De Demain' about the women's school Ecole Nationale Professionnelle de Jeunes Filles, established in 1934 in Vizille, Vercors / French Alps. Mountains in the mist. High angle village in the...
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Date trees and market vendors. Algeria, 1947
Clip 7 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. Scenes of palm trees and date trees. Men sort through the date harvest and prepare them for market.
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Afghanistan 1945 - men perform traditional Attan dance. CU shots of smiling men in turbans.
Afghanistan 1945 - men perform traditional Attan dance. CU shots of smiling men in turbans.