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Caravans come across dust storm while crossing the Sahara Desert

Title Card: "The Arab hunts his breakfast" / VS man hunts for his breakfast of sandfish, hand digging into sand / CU sandfish lizard in hands / Intertitle: "Sandfish: They live below the sand, and taste like chicken" /CU sandfish in hands / LS camel caravan disappears behind sand dune / VS caravan making their way across desert, disappearing from horizon, moving on desert / Intertitle: "The Sirocco: the devastating whirlwind that sweeps across the desert!" / CU side view of sand dune, wind blowing sand on the slope of sand dune / MS rear shot of caravan crossing desert / LS caravans making its way thru sand storm / Intertitle: "For thirty-six hours it blows relentlessly. Then comes a lull?" / LS caravan crossing desert after lull / MS caravan making its way across desert / Intertitle: "An age-old caravan route stretching across the great dunes of the Sahara" / LS caravan moving on top of sand dune / Intertitle: " A desert well … miles from nowhere. The camels find them by instinct" / MS man by the well, camels coming up to a desert well, man pulling bucket out of well, and feed the camels, men dips bucket into well / Intertitle: "And so we may go on and on in this land of mystic lure" / PAN caravan moving over desert, big sand dune in background / MS caravan climb sand dune / LS caravan crossing desert / Intertitle: "A dying Sun, purple shadows, ships of the desert" / LS silhouetted view of line of caravan on horizon, moving on top of sand dune with shadows of caravan on desert / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
Title Card: "The Arab hunts his breakfast" / VS man hunts for his breakfast of sandfish, hand digging into sand / CU sandfish lizard in hands / Intertitle: "Sandfish: They live below the sand, and taste like chicken" /CU sandfish in hands / LS camel caravan disappears behind sand dune / VS caravan making their way across desert, disappearing from horizon, moving on desert / Intertitle: "The Sirocco: the devastating whirlwind that sweeps across the desert!" / CU side view of sand dune, wind blowing sand on the slope of sand dune / MS rear shot of caravan crossing desert / LS caravans making its way thru sand storm / Intertitle: "For thirty-six hours it blows relentlessly. Then comes a lull?" / LS caravan crossing desert after lull / MS caravan making its way across desert / Intertitle: "An age-old caravan route stretching across the great dunes of the Sahara" / LS caravan moving on top of sand dune / Intertitle: " A desert well … miles from nowhere. The camels find them by instinct" / MS man by the well, camels coming up to a desert well, man pulling bucket out of well, and feed the camels, men dips bucket into well / Intertitle: "And so we may go on and on in this land of mystic lure" / PAN caravan moving over desert, big sand dune in background / MS caravan climb sand dune / LS caravan crossing desert / Intertitle: "A dying Sun, purple shadows, ships of the desert" / LS silhouetted view of line of caravan on horizon, moving on top of sand dune with shadows of caravan on desert / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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Editorial #:
1491352675
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1935
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:03:25:15
Location:
El Oued, Algeria
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005544_01_02