CAMELS AND JAFFA [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men working to unload the tiffin onto the beach appear to be Egyptian Labour Corps under British direction.
    Scenes in Jaffa under British occupation, Palestine Front, probably late 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Egyptian Labour Corps / ships, Palestinian civilian - harbour: surf boat / supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc / animals, mammals: camel / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Jaffa, Palestine / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound