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220569 17:03:04 - 17:03:38 1920s Si B/W
Dr Chaim Weizmann, Leader of the World Zionist Movement greeted by
thousands of Jews
Crowds as car arrives. Weizmann
and others walk down steps through crowd. Good CU.
London street corner, people entering building. Door of Jewish Agency, men enter. Sign on building Zionist organisation, Jewish Agency for Palestine. Interior, meeting in progress. Weizmann speaking to Mrs. Dugdale, niece of late Lord Balfour. Participants left to right Mr. J. Linton - Mr. Berl Locker,
Mrs. Dugdale, Dr. Weizmann - Professor S. Brodetsky - professor Namier
- Mr. Bakstansky. Weizmann
standing at relief map of Palestine on wall. Meeting continues.
England Chaim Weizmann with Jewish Agency Meeting.
London street corner, people entering building. Door of Jewish Agency, men enter. Sign on building Zionist organisation, Jewish Agency for Palestine. Interior, meeting in progress. Weizmann speaking to Mrs. Dugdale, niece of late Lord Balfour. Participants left to right Mr. J. Linton - Mr. Berl Locker, Mrs. Dugdale, Dr. Weizmann - Professor S. Brodetsky - professor Namier - Mr. Bakstansky. Weizmann standing at relief map of Palestine on wall. Meeting continues.
200541 15:25:37 - 15:27:57 1947 - 1948 SD B/W
1947 - Jewish refugees from Europe on board ship attempting to land
in Palestine. Sign United
Nations Palestine Commission, UN in session. 15:26:14 Jewish troops routing Arabs from Haifa, bodies on
ground. Negev desert area, 15:26:27Arabs rounded up and taken prisoner.
15:26:38 Tel Aviv, David
Ben Gurion arrives by car for new government installation. Jewish soldiers present arms. Israeli flag flying. UN soldiers with Israelis waving white
flags as they retrieve dead from battlefields.
15:27:13 Dr. Chaim Weizmann with wife Vera, accompanied by Chief of
Staff YaĠakov Dory and others wave to crowds. UN in session - Abba
Eban, Moshe Shertok (Sharet) seated in session; Arabic members walk
out when Israel admitted to UN, empty seats. Eban and Shertok looking up at Israeli flag raised.
El Al aircraft landing. Chaim
Weizmann and others down aircraft steps and greeted - Abba Eban ?
El Al plane taxiis. Chaim
Weizmann and party down steps - small crowd at airport. Sequence repeated. Weizmann
standing in front of microphones. Weizmann into car an away. CU Star of David on tail fin of plane and El Al, Israel National
Airlines on fuselage. Weizmann
speaking ' On the eve of the first anniversary of Israel's declaration
of independence ... brings greetings to American people -- gratitude
to America...'.
221155 15:35:54 - 15:36:42 1949 SIL B/W
Tel Aviv, Israel
James MacDonald, America's first Ambassador to the new State of Israel,
presents his credentials to President Chaim Weizmann.
MacDonald & other VIP past Guard of Honour. Israeli and US flags flying.
Int. MacDonald led into room & making speech to Weizmann, PM Ben
Gurion & others (mos); watched by US & Israeli military and
VIPs. Shaking hands. Two women, Mrs MacDonald & ?? Weizmann, Ben Gurion & MacDonald sitting
w/ tea cups talking.
X 221458 04:36:01 - 04:37:07 1949 B/W SIL Title: Israel (Military Parade) 04:36:04 LS crowd w/ many military & banners, three flags flying. Reviewing stand w/ Ben Gurion standing, army officers saluting including Dory, Chief of Staff. Troops marching; Druze unit troops; women marching. 04:36:33 MCU of Chaim Weizmann watching. Military & civilians watching. CU pin on civilian man. Nurse standing beside ?? in wheel chair missing lower legs. 04:36:50 MS crowd watching from grandstand. Troops leadng mules w/ guns & packs. Tanks & troops pastX 221460 06:41:35 - 06:43:12 1949 B/W SIL Title: News In Brief (Israel Remains Returned; Argentina Military)
INCLUDING:
06:41:38 Israel. Jewish men standing beside Italian airliner. CU Chaim Weizmann talk (MOS). LS Trucks w/ casket & soldiers standing leading motorcade & crowd walking up road to Jerusalem (?). MCU Women crying, man wiping eyes. 06:42:17
X 221459 05:06:23 - 05:07:03 1950 B/W SIL Title: Israel (Vera & Chaim Weizmann)
05:06:26 Civilian VIPs, sailors at attention in dress uniforms. Weizmann w/ goatee & dark glasses helped by wife & military man up steps to ?? Haifa in background? Flag raised w/ menorah & saluted by Israeli officer. People on dock waving. Single stack liner.
Car past camera & up to side of White House. Chaim Weizmann (1st President of Israel) presents Truman with
gift in Rose Garden. Many
photographers as he is helped out of car. CU. People waving
Israel flags. Weizmann
& wife Vera walking past camera & waving. Out of Union Station. Cameramen & soundmen. Motorcade away from station. Out of W.H. & into car. Press conference with reporters taking notes. Weitzman sitting in garden talking to microphone. Speaking (MOS) into mic.
Zionist leader and founder of State of Israel buried.
Various shots Jerusalem showing valley - walls Old City - Temple Mount. LS Modern Jerusalem - Hebrew University - students walk under
arches. Top shot Old
City. Various surrounding countryside - trees.
Two tombstones.
06:14:27 Walls of Jerusalem at Jaffa Gate - people coming and going. Selling oranges from stall. Arabs and Jews present. Crowds getting on bus including Arabs,
Jews, Nuns.
06:15:18 Jewish Agency building ? . Closer shot doorway . Man leaving building.
06:15:47 Crowds of young people entering building.
06:16:06 Doors of Jewish Agency Building - nameplates The Jewish Agency
for Palestine and Palestine Zionist Executive. Street scene - mosque and minaret - army truck down street. Large building - Rockefeller Museum ? Sign YMCA services club.
Shot of old Jerusalem with Arabs in foreground
06:17:02 Interior offices - Mr. Lowell Pinkerton, Consul General of
the United States talks with one of his consuls Mr. Christian /steger. Secretary enters and gives letter to Pinkerton
for signature. Two men continue discussion in front of large wall
map of Palestine.
c16Nov or 12Dec45. Paris
[No.] 0351. Demonstrators
march down street on bleak wintery day past camera. Banner 'There
Cannot Be Real Freedom Without Jewish Freedom'. Marchers towards camera in CU, man shouting, cutaways to banner;
woman pushing baby in pram between banner bearers. Marchers continue across bridge, factories in BG; banner 'President
Truman Demands Mass Jewish Immigration Into Palestine - God Bless
America'; another banner in Hebrew; marchers past looking at camera. Demonstrators assemble in large group,
several banners & flags of Israel held aloft. CU banner 'Open The Gates Of Palestine'. CU demonstrators applauding; faces. March continues down country lane. CUs women & young girl.
Nov44 Dr. Nahum Goldmann
making animated speech re 5 million Jews massacred in Europe because
they had no homeland. Calls for Palestine to be given to the
Jews and helped by the United Nations to establish a Jewish state. Calls for Jewish representation in governments.
Wide shot conference. Various
shots delegates. 18:01:15
Dr. Bernard Joseph speaks - presents resolution on Palestine. Calls for the establishment of Palestine as a free and democratic
Jewish Commonwealth. Appeals to the UN to aid in the transfer
of Jewish survivors of the holocaust to Palestine.
18:02:55 Second take re resolution. Calls on the British government to open Palestine to unrestricted
Jewish resettlement. Shots
of delegates applauding and listening as told by director. Women delegates. Delegates from Chile.
X221235 04:40:52 - 04:49:44 1930s - 1965 SD COL&B/W
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