1934 TOUR OF THE HOLY LAND VAGABOND ADVENTURE CITY OF JERUSALEM 52294

RKO Radio Pictures presents “The Holy Land,” a 1934 black-and-white film that was part of the Vagabond Adventure Series. Opening with the Easter hymn “Jesus Christ is Risen Today,” the film quickly takes the viewer to the Israeli seaport city of Jaffa (mark 00:35). There are scenes of merchants selling their wares in marketplaces and children frolicking in the Sea of Galilee (mark 02:25) and see a 1,000-year-old yet still operational water wheel at mark 02:40 that provides irrigation to neighboring fields. By mark 03:50 we are in Jerusalem and enter the Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to the Old City (mark 04:28). We see the Western Wall (mark 04:54) where men and women are shown worshipping, reading from Hebrew prayer books, and placing their intentions in the wall’s small crevices. At mark 06:30, a man is shown walking down the same street that Jesus Christ is said to have traveled toward his crucifixion, and then see the Tower of David, an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to western edge of Jerusalem. Finally, we are shown the entrance to Christ’s tomb (mark 07:00) and the altar over the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (mark 07:33) as strains of the religious hymn mark the end of the film.
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[@rezanadaf1213]

My Grandfathers Father was a Persian Jew in the time before the 1979 revolution of Iran, thrown from a roof for Heresy when we lost the war. My grandfather then chose to follow the Zoroastrians in the north. There were Russians there he said, leaving Ukraine I might suppose or the satellites of the USSR. He told me he hoped they were Jewish.
Later in University I studied Hebrew, though my Jewish lineage never came to pass. I am sorry for the persecution, in a way I feel responsible, it was some of my people who did it.
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[@davidduffy9806]

This a remarkable doco.... it wasnt all that long ago that the Promised Land was as old as time. WWII gave us today's Israel, so different from the strange old place shown in this doco.

[@raygiordano1045]

Israel's history is very remarkable. It wasn't all that long ago that most folks thought the prophecies about Israel becoming a nation again were never going to happen, and once it did happen, it looked like it was going to be a very short-lived nation more than once.

[@maelgugi]

03:04 "I wonder if the marvels of today will last a 1000 years, and if they do will they seem primitive" it's been less than 100 years and they already look primitive