| AGELESS IRAQ reel 2 Documentary about life in Iraq - political history, religion, traditions, industry etc. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8297 |
| Catalog #: | 488332 | |
| Clip Number: | 488332-4 | |
| Orginal Film: | DOCUMENTARIES | |
| Timecode: | 10:06:31 - 10:09:38 | |
| Location: | Iraq | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: Arabs LOCATIONS/MIDDLE EAST: Iraq | |
| Description: | Elaborately decorated float in the Coronation parade. King watches the floats pass, some have beautiful women seated upon them, some are richly decorated with flowers. C/u of boys walking towards school past the camera, they hold hands with each other. M/S of school. Another school scene - this time a girls school. "When you see these young girls in their Western clothes, so assured and confident, you are inclined to forget how surprised their mothers would have been..." Various shots of women in a laboratory setting. Narrator describes how women are training for jobs their parents generation believed could only be done by men. C/Us of the girls and their teacher. M/S of electrical students fiddling with a valve oscillator. Various shots of nurses in training, then a nurse at work in the open air performing health checks on children. Children in a playground having a game of hopscotch. Young girls in a dressmaking class - C/U of a girl pinning up a hem. Girl admires her dress in the mirror. Section about the arts, man plays a lute. Seems to be a music class. M/S of an art class. Men paint a life model (she is fully clothed). C/U of one of the paintings. Sculpture class - various shots. C/Us of ancient bas relief sculptures. C/U sculpture of a Greed goddess. C/U of a girl playing. C/U Arab men. Men board a plane. Aerial shots of Baghdad from an aircraft. | |
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