Film Number |
10710 |
Title |
ON BOARD SHIP |
Producer |
4th Baron Egerton of Tatton |
Date |
1930s |
Gauge |
16mm |
Colour |
b/w & colour |
Sound |
silent |
Running Time |
16 mins 39 secs |
Description |
Children and adults play in a small swimming pool on the ship the 'Arundel Castle'. Titles include 'Potato Race'- a deck game were the players wear pillow cases over their heads! ' On the Lahej Road' - a camel train and loaded donkeys walk down the road followed by children dragging a boat into the sea and dancing in the street. Bi planes fly in formation then a man demonstrates fishing with a thrown net. More titles, 'Makala Southern Arabia' - the coastline from a boat, 'Unloading Sheep' from a ships hold, 'Street Scenes' and 'Sheher South Arabia' - locals pose for the camera, 'Grinding Sim Sim' - with a camel powering the wheel and 'Cloth Workers' - two men at hand looms |
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