1938 Palestine Jewish scenes 221732-07 | Footage Farm

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[1938 - Palestine, Zionism.  Beth Hachalutzoth; Tel Aviv Scenes]
Working Girls Hostel, women read magazines at tables & talk, smiling.  LS & MCU.
23:55:13  EXT  LS of building across plants at entrance garden; several women in / out.
23:55:23  Hand weaving, women at looms.  
23:55:43  Woman weaving cane or leather as chair seats.  CU Sign on door, "Beth Hachalutzoth" (built in 1936) [over-exposed].
23:55:59  INT,  Tel Aviv bank, immigrants receive loans, people applying for loans, receiving money. 
23:56:47  POV along street, pedestrians on wide sidewalk, bicycles.
23:56:50  EXT, street, laborers gathered outside main entrance of Labor headquarters building, Tel Aviv, where registration and distribution of work to all laborers gets processed.
23:57:16   Street construction for housing project / cooperative in south Tel Aviv, man breaking rocks.  (land provided by the Jewish National Fund).  Children cross street wait for passing water wagon.  
23:57:40  CU Sign on street giving house block number.  LS of housing block.
23:58:00  EXT high angle cooperative houses for working men.  Family hoeing front garden; others on porch.  CUs of family eating
23:58:37  Gardening at Ayanoth, agricultural training farm for girls, 20 minutes from Tel Aviv.  Girls planting potatoes, CUs, pan of girls.  Girls coming out of tool shed to work.
23:59:23  Tel Aviv metal fence & street scenes w/ men gathered outside building, shops, pedestrians, street scene, cars, white modern building, people loading truck, men pushing cart of sacks in front of low warehouse.
00:00:12  The Jaffa-Tel Aviv street boundary line: one shot from Jaffa side, one shot from Tel Aviv side.  
00:00:33  Arab selling bananas. 
00:00:47  High angle shot of Tel Aviv street scenes.  Men at kiosk reading Labor daily paper "Davar," newspaper vendor.
00:01:12  Printing Hebrew books at Labor press.
00:01:20  Boundary sign between Tel Aviv & Jaffa, road roundabout; cars to right towards Tel Aviv, or straight for Jaffa.
00:01:40  High angle view along Allenby street in Tel Aviv. 
00:01:55  Lydda Junction railway sign (Lydda is the main railway junction in Palestine. Trains go to Egypt, Beirut, and Damascus.) 
00:02:07  Man watching freight train leaving yard.  Lydda railroad station platform, freight train moving past.
00:02:44  POV thru main business section of Tel Aviv, kids on bicycles watching.  
00:03:00  EXT.  Labor headquarters.
00:03:15  Men on scaffolding pouring, tamping & working concrete.

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