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Let's go 30s...

ALMOST ARCADY 1930
A Pro Patria presentation. Produced by British Instructional Films Ltd.

Car drives along a country road. Two men in the back of the car look at a map of Cyprus. Camels carry men and goods. Old Turkish aqueduct. Mountains. Landscapes. Monastery of the Orthodox church. Priests pass through an archway. Mountain peasants. Beehive ovens where woman bakes bread. Primitive water well. Compared to an H.G. Robinson invention. Washing clothes in a stream. Children go to school. Bell is being rung by a small child - he climbs down a stepladder. Woman spins silk and cotton by hand. Weaving. Women make Cyprus lace. C/U of the very fine work. Village potter works on a wheel. C/U of hands and feet operating the wheel. He glazes the pots. Chair makers sit in the sunshine and work. They use primitive tools and a simple lathe. Cedar forests. Logs being sent down shoots to saw mills. Sheep.

Cattle pull a primitive type of threshing board. C/U of wooden boards. Hemp is cleaned by beating. Women twist the hemp into threads and the threads into rope. Comment is made about their patchwork sleeves being fashionable on the island. Roads flooded after heavy rain. Women pick tobacco. The leaves are strung on a line, then hung in the sun to be "cured". Women sort the leaves. Olive groves. Men and women pick the olives. Olives are crushed - a mule and men pull the millstone around. Apple orchards - apples are weighed. Women pick apples. Their costumes are described. A wedding procession. Men fire guns in the air. Joke made about marriage (the groom couldn't be the bald headed musician as he looks "far too happy"!) Musicians procession. Many people carry wedding gifts. Men perform a traditional dance. Sun sets over the mosque. Dawn breaks over the salt lakes.

Note: print is quite badly scratched.

Issue Date: 1930 - 1939 Sound: Yes
Time in: 01:42:06:00 Time out: 01:51:40:00
Canister: DOCS Film ID: 1697.06
Sort number: DOCS Tape: *PM1697*

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75329

........old Turkish aqueduct?????????? (44 secs) Surely something of a historical mistake?

Noticed some of this footage used in other newsreels, but must be amongst the earliest yet........

No, Talisker. It is true that Turks built aqueducts in Cyprus... I've noticed that some scenes of this footage used in other newsreels.

It looks very Roman to me.

The Scots are a little more canny than those BBC Brits fooled by the Turks.

Of course the Turks even built Hagia Sofia in Constantinople, doncha know, because they put a minaret on it!

[insan]

Realy interesting, thanks for posting them. The 1940 Pathe one mentions the people of Cyprus but does not mention the word Greek or Turk. This adds to my belief that in those days most Cypriots themselves were not too concerned about the difference of their origins but others were for their own selfish reasons, divide and rule.

Jerry, let's imagine the then circumstances... Overwhelming majority of Cypriots didn't have school education so they didn't well aware of their historical and ethnic backgrounds...

However, national idendity awareness of GCs revealed itself right after the independence war of Greeks... At that time, Cyprus was still under Ottoman Rule...

In 1664 Britain ceded Ionian Islands to Greece. The cession of Ionian islands to Greece also should have had an impact on GC community in getting aware of their national idendity and demanding Enosis with Greece. Until 1660s if there was a divide and rule policy it was carried out by GC ruling class; priests...

[insan]

(CYPRUS - JEWISH IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE) 1946
Unissued / unused material.

Illegal Jewish Immigrants arrive at Cyprus from Haifa (Palestine).

Various shots immigrants in a refugee camp receiving their food rations. Various shots of life in the camp. Various shots Jews gathering for a demonstration against barbed wire enclosure, they wave a large Israeli flag. British soldiers stand by in case of trouble. More general shots life in refugee camp, British servicewomen seen giving out food / drink. Various shots immigrants landing from British landing craft, lorries driving them to camp. Various views of Cyprus showing houses, coast and ruined church. More shots of demonstration. Brief shot fishing boats in harbour. More shots refugees arriving by boat. More shots demonstrations. Rest of shots same or similar to those seen earlier in item.

Item is cuts from Gazette issue 46/68.



Issue Date: Sound: Mute
Time in: 01:55:49:00 Time out: 02:02:05:00
Canister: UN 1551 F Film ID: 2335.21
Sort number: UN 1551 F Tape: *PM2335

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=57467

[Talisker]

GAGARIN IN CYPRUS (1962)

Famous Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in an open car waving to the crowd lined in streets in Nicosia. CU. Gagarin's face as he smiles. MS. Car goes by camera with Gagarin waving from his car which has Russian flag draped over the bonnet. CU. Woman clapping. VCU. & MS. Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios and Gagarin talking on couch. Various shots of crowd in Limasol. Various shots of Gagarin in Limasol on a balcony waving and receives key to the city.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81368

Some people will do anything to wangle a trip to Cyprus!