Palestine and Gibraltar film
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2011.14.1
place: label: Place
content: Asia
label: Place
content: Lebanon
label: Place
content: Egypt
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from American Film Institute (National Center for Film and Video Preservation) in 2011.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Film reels (black-and-white silent; 1,100 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1932
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2011.14
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Travelogs
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogs
label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage seems to be amateur travel film of George Livingston Robinson's family travels to the Holy Land. Family is shown debarking in Beirut and scenes around the Sea of Galilee including Arabs and an early Kibbutz. In Jerusalem they visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre before major earthquake damage, the construction of the YMCA tower, views of the city before the major building phase began in the 1940s.  Also shown are the Suez Canal, St. Catherine's monastery in Mt. Sinai and some scenes of Sinai Bedouin.

Legecy Keywords: Church architecture ; monastery ; Street scenes

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