Desert Tripoli
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.68
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 332 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935
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 the "Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film depicts scenes in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. The fim shows Leptis Magna, ancient Roman ruins, and demonstrates the water and irrigation system. Also shown are a classroom of boys taught by a Muslim teacher using the Koran; a synagogue with Jews praying and women and girls learning sewing and needlework. 

Legacy Keywords: Cities and towns ; Ruins archeological ; Irrigation ; Students ; Synagogues ; Women ; Sewing