| TURKEY A French film about life in Turkey. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5151 | |
| Catalog #: | 514222 | |
| Clip Number: | 514222-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 162 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:49:57 - 01:55:55 | |
| Location: | Turkey | |
| Year Shot: | 1917 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Misc. DOMESTIC LIFE: Family Life FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Turkey RELIGION: Islam (Muslim, Molsem) | |
| Description: | See also Catalog # 509475 French film about Turkey with French title and intertitles. "Un Pays qui Agonise" " ('A country who is dying - Turkey'.) "La vie feminine et religieuse" MS group of ladies and children sat around. A woman rocks a child in background. "Une nombreuse famille." MS lots of children and elderly lady looking at camera. "Le visage completement dissmule sous le "Tchartchaf" les femmes de la ville vont se promener, suivies de tres pres par leur eunuque." MS women covered from head to toe leading child. MS as others follow. MS man in fez walks along. "Unjour de fete sur les 'Eaux Douces.' Les femmes ne sortent guere que ces jours la, aussi en profitent-elles..." MS people in large rowing boat on river, others sit on bank. Various shots of other boats on river, some under canopy. "Jeunes filles allant a la priere." MS adults and children milling about. "Cour interieure de la mosquee d'Eyoub. La fountaine des amblutions." MS pavillion pigeons flock around. This people enter the pavillion. This may be where feet are washed before entering the mosque. "L'heure de la priere." LS pan across mosque a man sits cross-legged on rock. "Le champ du repos." MS two gravestones. Pan across gravestones in cemetery. End titles. | |
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