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Distant Arabia
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Bedouin, explorers, pearl divers, kings and princes, burly oil men and hundreds of camels in 50 minutes of video shot in the late 30 and early 40s. A glimpse of a way of li...
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Out in the Blue
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Tom Barger's story of how he left his bride of two weeks and traveled to Saudi Arabia in 1937 to explore the remote areas of the kingdom. It shows the hardships and adventu...
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Bahrain Holiday - 1938
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Oil men from Dhahran take a weekend trip to Bahrain. They visit the suq, picnic near an ancient spring and witness an excellent display of Bahraini stick fighting.
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Desert Explorers
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Four American geologists and a half dozen Saudi guides explore the eastern Rub'al-Khali in 1938. En route they harvest a locust plague to feed their poultry and the Hejazi ...
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Jeddah 1953 to the Iraqi border with King Saud
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Opens in Jeddah in 1953 and makes its way to the Iraqi border for the visit of the new KIng Saud
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Gymkhana in Saudi Arabia
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Arabian horses in Arabia on parade and competing in a gymkhana
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Well Fire at #12
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July 10th, 1939 Well # 12 bursts into flames and the oil men work for 10 days to put it out.
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Pearl Diving in the Gulf-1938
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The last generation of pearl divers ply their trade in the Persian Gulf. A mainstay of the Gulf economy from thousands of years will disappear in 20.
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May 1st, 1939
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King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud arrives in Ras Tanura to celebrate the first tanker to export oil from Arabia
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Bahrain in 1938
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Begins with the birth of a camel in Arabia and then shows camels in Bahrain, the very center of the Gulf economy in 1938. A tour of the suq and a glimpse of street life.
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