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WW1 Middle East etc 221497-18 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWI - Rickenbacker, German Plane Crash; Wilson & Pershing; Middle East, Jerusalem, Allenby, Turkish]
Eddie Rickenbacker in cockpit of biplane, CU smiling.  Plane from ground (brief).  View of ground from air (brief).  Under cranked (fast) soldiers running.  
11:37:30  American soldiers guarding overturned biplane, soldiers looking.  MS German (?) pilot sitting on ground.
11:37:41  Title w/o pix, black slug.
11:37:46  MCU President Wilson in top hat & fur coat w/ Gen. Pershing in uniform, laughing & talking.
11:38:06  Black slug.
11:38:10  Intertitle:  "...Turkish dynamite makes work for the British Engineers."  Blown up brick bridge; horse & wagons, pack train, across temporary floating bridge.  Wagons & horses up sandy bank & across desert.
11:39:08  Intertitle:  "Two big guns are dragged forward through the sand."  Pulled by large tracked tractor w/ front wheel, men riding.
11:39:32  Intertitle:  "Heat and sand is nothing new to this mounted machine gun battery of Indian troops."  Indians in turbans walking beside large pack train of horses passing camera.
11:40:07  Flash intertitle:  "the Man who liberated Jerusalem, General Allenby, returns to Cairo where more troops are made ready for a desert campaign."  Line of military officers w/ Allenby formally shaking hands w/ Egyptian civilians on railroad platform.  
11:40:24  Mounted on horse, others around, riding off w/ British pennant.  Troops mounted sitting on sand waiting.
11:40:45  Intertitle:  "In Bethlehem of Judea the streets ring w/ the tramp of men..."  Arabs & others watching British troops marching out of Old City or along street.  Troops marching in opposite direction.
11:41:22  Intertitle:  "A strange scene...where a spy of the Sultan has fallen into British hands."  Troops sitting on ground by trench w/ machine guns, slow pan to man sitting on back of armored truck & arab (?) translator.
11:41:57  Intertitle:  "At Cairo, fresh mounts..."  no pix.
11:42:01  Intertitle:  "Over the gleaming sands in the early hours..."  LS riders in lines doing drill (?).  
11:42:30  Troops riding through shallow water & up sandy shore past windmill.
11:42:44  Intertitle:  "The Desert 'Battleship' - From captured city of Jerusalem, General Allenby's fighters..."  Riding thru very dry desert w/ eroded streambeds.
11:43:11  Flash Intertitle:  "The retreating foe...destroyed a well."  Men inspecting wooden broken parts, pose beside jumbled stones.  View down shaft.
11:43:25  Intertitle:  "As the British press forward here, prisoners & supplies of war are taken..."   Soldiers w/ rifles marching large group of prisoners (Turkish?) past.
11:43:53  British into house w/ rifles & debris stacked & laying outside.  Pan over guns.
Middle East; WW1 Heroes; Celebrities; 1917 - 1918 (?); Palestine;

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