Italian Libya
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.94
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 347 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for "Along the Road to Romance on the Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film shows scenes of Libya including a market area with camels and donkeys. The film shows people involved in handicrafts making hats and baskets. The fim also shows the oasis, the water well and shows how donkeys are used to carry water. The other scenes shown are men threshing wheat and the Libyan army taking instructions from the Italian army. Narrator dicusses the strategic location of Libya as a colony of Italy.

Legacy Keywords: Markets ; Handicrafts ; Camels as carriers ; Well water ; Agriculture ; Threshing