Ageless Iraq Reel 1 (1950-1959)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Reel 1. Directed by Graham Wallace. Cameraman - Reg Cavender. Editor - Jocelyn Jackson. Sound - W.S. Bland and George Newberry. L/S of aeroplane flying over countryside. Various aerial shots of Iraq and its rivers. C/U of a shepherd looking up at the sky. Aerial shot of ruins. L/S of train travelling along - palm trees in foreground. Aerial shot of Mosque of Khardimain. Views from the train and shot of passengers disembarking in Baghdad - they are presumably tourists as we see travelling bags with lots of destination stickers on them. C/U of sign at the railway station - Baghdad West. L/S from high angle of the city. Various shots of Baghdad. Narrator speaks of the city's history and of Arabian Nights. L/S of water buffalo walking into a lake with children gathered around in the foreground. Schoolgirls play volleyball in their school uniforms. L/S and C/U of one of the players. M/S of classmates applauding. L/S of an outdoor swimming pool. "The twentieth century has come to Baghdad" states the narrator. L/S of city street. Pan down to show men at an outdoor cafe. Two of the men play backgammon. Bazaar. C/Us of a man beating metal. M/S of two white tourists (the woman holds a small fan) looking at Persian rugs to buy. The husband talks to the salesman, the woman purses her lips! High angle of a row of Iraqi policemen. An officer inspects uniforms and the men march off. High angle shot of passengers getting on to a bus. C/U of a policeman directing traffic. High angle shot of busy streets. Race track - horses walk in front of the camera. C/U of spectator in traditional dress. Shots of the race. C/U of spectator seen before following the race with binoculars. Narrator mentions the fact that all thoroughbreds are descended from Arabian stock. C/U of group of men and young boy celebrating the end of the race. C/U of an elderly man wearing traditional headscarf steering a small boat. C/U of the sail. View of palm trees. Fishing boats. Men climb up palm trees to collect coconuts. L/S of mules being used to help irrigation processes. L/S of man at work on irrigation drain - sunflowers in foreground. C/U of crop. High angle shot of mountain village. M/S of family with their herd of sheep. Mother plays a kind of flute. Scenic shots of the landscape. Two Kurdish men walk across a small waterfall. They stand in bushes with their rifles. L/S of Kurdish village. L/S women collecting water. Narrator makes biblical references to Jacob and Rebecca.
Reel 1 continued. M/S of two women dressed in bright red traditional clothes doing their washing in small metal tubs. C/U of a woman carrying a small water urn over her shoulder walking up some steps. The men work in the fields - various shots of men performing agricultural work. C/U of watering channels. Man stands on a hillside and chants a prayer. L/S of shepherds with flocks. Peasants walk through meadows. High angle shot of a village. C/U of a Kurdish woman spinning fibres on a small wooden hand spindle. M/S to show that she is seated outside. Two other women roll something on flat stones - bread? M/S of their husbands sipping tea at an outside cafe. Shots of a group of children - girls - seated on the ground playing a game of catch. C/U of one of the girls throwing something small into the air and catching it whilst she sings or chants something. L/S of large number of people milling around. Then shots of men with linked arms dancing to traditional music in an outdoor setting - a Yezidi dance. Young girls sit on a wall and clap. L/S of a man carrying long branches - a large boat is approaching on the river behind him - River Shatt al Arab. L/S of harbour. The port of Basrah. A boat is punted up the river. Sinbad the Sailor is mentioned. Various shots of activity at the port. Cargoes being loaded and unloaded. The airport, various shots of planes, passengers disembarking etc. shot of the reflection of a boat in swampy water. Shots of Marsh Arabs cutting reeds. three men repair fishing nets, men pull nets through the water. Small boats are punted along the marshes. Boat approaches a village settlement. Teenager feeds a small bird.
See reel 2.
Note: This film was made for the Iraq Petroleum Co. See documentation - includes shot list, music cue sheet etc.
FILM ID:671.05
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If IRAQ stayed like this, can you imagine how beautiful it'd be without the conflicts ever existing?
Kliche travels FOR ABOUT THIRTY YEARS NOW. Yes. And we all allowed that to happen, as we are allowing whatever this completely unwarranted shutdown is covering for right now. your country (apologies if you are commenting as an Iraqi) will exist only in memories soon, and you (and all of us) stood by and let our ability to stop it evaporate it forever.
Iraq has a beautiful Arabic name “Dar As-Salam” the peaceful home. As an Arab descended I feel nostalgic about those times, where Arabs will come back to our countries proud. Therefore, the immense heritage will never disappear
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@عامر حاليا احسن منكم 😂
can you imagine how beautiful it'd be without the West invasions and interfering and creating conflicts!
Seems like it used to be a beautiful and fascinating country at one point... Seems so unreal.
was...as every where.
look at old pictures of Somalia... it's so sad, the British brings civilization and America brings destruction.
catalinaga exactly.
That's what I'd say about my country.
Yea that is what War and capitalism does to a place
The land where God once spoke out of the wind to the very first couple to ever exist.
Since then Iraq's natural wealth (oil) became a curse for Iraqi's soles...
No, you are wrong
Since the American support us against iran
It's begin
@@wesamal_iraqi1100 you’re also wrong, the U.S support for Iraq was only a fraction of the bigger picture... Iran was also supported under the table (read on Iran contra affair/ Irangate), but Iraq had to go after the fall of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, as they were Iraq’s closest allies... and our model is the closest to them... the agenda is to split Iraq into 3 nations based on sect and background... (and coincidentally this was part of the Iran Contra Affair agreement that was leaked in 1986 between Reagan and Khomeini).
@@dripstar6183 it al went wrong when the king was killed.
From Iraq, I thank you for this wonderful report
As someone form the USA I wish Iraq was like this again
In the fact just get out of Iraq and Iraq will be the most good country in the space not just the world
And all of Iraqis hate usa
@@loklok179 احسنت ههههه
@@loklok179 ههههههههههههههههههههههه
@@loklok179 I was never in Iraq
as a Iraqi this videos just breaks your heart
Who cares
@@hiliax all Arab and Egyptian cares
@@zidanmahmoud9116 yeah you guy's the one who supports Saddam and buried kurds alive
@@hiliax
We support Iraq and the all Arab world not Saddam
@@zidanmahmoud9116 k so why not free Kirkuk?
Its scary to think how quickly iraq descended into ruin. Just like Syria. Countries can lose everything in the matter of a few decades. Don't think your home is immune from such disasters.
A few months my friend, a few months
Will always be the Cradle of Civilization!
Ledia Oshana
sure......wich is destroyed by ISIS
@@daniarassyrian8907 no but destroyed by US
To correct the information, all of you live in the West, and curse the West who destroyed Iraq, the Iraqi people, the Iraqi people, who killed the king, then Abd al-Karim, then Abd al-Salam, then expelled Abd al-Rahman, then killed Saddam, and he was the one who killed Ali when he invaded Iraq
My family is from Baghdad, they all left, in 1951, interesting to see.
Hi God bless you, if you don't mind me asking, why did all of your family leave from Iraq in 1951?
Hi God bless you, if you don't mind me asking, why did all of your family leave from Iraq in 1951?
U are a traitor, probably left Iraq for Israel an occupated real evil country! I dare you to call yourself Iraqi you choose to evil!
Yes YOU ' he is Iraqi and always would be Iraqis jew and Christian were the backbone for iraq
Beautiful country with beautiful civilisation ruined. Thank you for uploading this to remind the world of how the real Iraq was
as an american, i apologize for my country's actions taken that destroyed this wonderful society
لا نريد أسفك الكاذب فقط أتركونا بحالنا ألم يكفيكم ما حدث كم انتم أنانيين
No one cares about you or your country all people in Iraq heat you
No, please, we don't want you. I wish America would disappear from the world
@@userbiiintaljood i hope Iraq burns
Never apologize to Iraqis because they don’t want your regret they want to kill you trust me I had a Iraqi tell me he want to kill me because I’m American not my fault I was a dumb ass kid who couldn’t stop the us form invaded I was a stupid kid doing dumb kid bs
That part with the kurdish farmers is so beautiful, what a wonderful way of life
You are right
Mustafa barzani sold Kurdistan in early 1960s.
These days, I hope these days come back to our beloved Iraq
7:53 unbelieveable view, an enchanting place from a fictional story from the old ancient cities.
هاي بالعشار قديما
This place in my city of Basra was like Italian Venice
Such a truly mesmersing and beautiful country. Her people are also warm and friendly perhaps too much so their own good.
الله اكبر كم عراقي هنا
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صراحه التقرير يقهر شكد چنه نخبل 😭💔
هلة شكو ماكو
It looks so peaceful...
then
It has always been peaceful......until the amerikan mercenaries with their "domestic terrorism" arrived in the name of oil.!
الله يرحمهم اهلنه كانو يتحدثون عن العراق قديم شكد كانت الحياة جميله وهادئه وناسهم طيبه بكل طوافهم
واجه عبد الكريم زرب بي
I love how westerners always refer as arab countries as being new and young countries, the reason that modern boundaries (post WWI) have been created recently on those ancient lands does not mean that a continuum of many arab states have not existed and evolved there for centuries.
indeed
You mean Europeans dont worry about what people say you mean whites
A nation is not the same as a country. Are you denying that Iraq as an independent nation state was relatively young when this was filmed?
You mean, ancient arab civilizations for several millenniums!
I agree on your remarks.
I am from Iraq
My Iraq my beautiful country he's so beautiful and very nice in this since years 50s to 60s ❤️
My friend from Iraq said when Saddam came to power his mother had a dream that there would be 50 years of war there. He said the whole family thought that was crazy. “That couldn’t happen in Iraq.”
How beautiful my country was without conflicts and wars
7:53 And this was Venice of middle east.
Looks so peaceful and idyllic, I really do wonder what the nation would've looked like today, had it not gone through near constant political instability post 1958.
sehr schön Stadt Irak 🇮🇶🇮🇶🍀🌹
Not any more😥
In Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Senegal and Yemen, this is a very normal part of our daily life. Every day I wake up from sleep to the sound of explosions and missiles.
I'm from Iraq, I remember when I was a nine-year-old child in 2012, my father took me with him to a market on the day of Eid.
And when we passed by a market, it had just been detonated, and the corpses scattered in the market were human beings cut into pieces, and the smell of blood was human and the smell of burning clothes.
عراقنا حبيبنا ❤️
so beautiful than come America and all its over 2014
@Tommy Gunn
1979
😭😭
In the fact iraq most pretty than you think and all your country it's so so so bad
والله العراق يجنن قبل ان شاء الله يرجع مثل ما جان 😔🇮🇶🇮🇶
كان*
I wish my country didn’t change so I wouldn’t have to go to different countries. If your country is peaceful you dont know how lucky you are.
Iraq would be powerful rich country in middle east if hashemite monarchy continue Today.
May The Hashemite Kingdom Of Iraq be immortal in our hearts!
عندما كان هناك معنى للحياة في العراق
Kurdish iraq❤🇮🇶
لیره ن کورده کان؟😅
Bruh you proud of iraq even you're a kurd? Saddam buried kurds alive remember that
That was in Baghdad not the north of Iraq I mean the city was Baghdad
Thanks for uploading this video, is there are any other video about Iraq like this one please?
I like how the narrator speaks with almost what sounds an admiration about the primitive life in Iraq while in another short movie he bashes the way of life in the USSR and makes fun of their "primitive computers" :))
Islam was still the most dominant religion of Iraq at the time. If Britain still had her empire none of what happened in modern history would have occured
@@kevinshmuk7237 What happened in modern history?
@@kevinshmuk7237 I think you are forgetting what happened in South Asia. Forced colonisation and invasion never amounts to any good for the weaker country.
4:50, this is not primitive, this is traditional. Sorry your ULTA Orthodox Minuscule brain can't comprehend such hard tasks.
As for the USSR they can go back to their Gulags
Nobody makes better documentaries than the British 👍🏼
ذهب ملوكنا وذهب معهم كل شيى إيجابي وجيد لبلدي العراق للاسف
هذه الحكمة من عدم الخروج على ولاة الأمور و سمع لهم و الطاعة في المعروف و الدعاء لهم بالخير و التوفيق
اين الشيء الايجابي و الجيد غير طبيعة العراق الجميلة ؟ الا ترى كمية الفقر و الحالة الرديئة عند اغلب الشعب ؟
الحمدلله على كل حال 💔🇮🇶
it would have been much better in those and earlier years than these days .Railway and Air traffic all working perfectly .
عاش العراق ❤
The Iraq, before the american Nightmare !
Dont invade Kuwait then.
@@dulls8475Stfu the us came to destroy and steal they have never done anything positive
@@dulls8475غزو الكويت حاي من شخص دكتاتور و هو صدام فما ذنب البلد و الشعب العراقي ليدفع الثمن ؟؟؟ ثانيا غزو الكويت حصل عام 1990 و غزو امريكا للعراق حصل عام 2003 يعني امريكا غزوت العراق لان العراق قبل 12 سنه غزا الكويت ؟؟؟
@@user-oe2qf6uk3f I think the west was wrong to interfere with Iraq or any of the middle east. I have no idea what you said.
Iraq has always been beautiful and diverse country despite all of the odds and the hard times that it went through I am so proud to be from there and hoping for a better future for my country
Yes it's my home 🖤
The most Arab country in 1950
glad to see kurds in the video
Where are we was and where are we now..we in iraq in a calamity
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قبل الغزو الصليبي للأوطان العربية والإسلامية.
كانت الحياة هادئة جداً
Mission Accomplished Bush.
Iraq at kingdom age is more beautiful.
The iraq at this time was full with advantures and surprisings for the forgein interesting peoples
Beautiful.
من بعد الانقلاب المشوؤم في سنة ١٩٥٨ تموز ،جائت كل البلاوي والفتن في العراق.
لايصلح للعراق شي غير الحكم الملكي وليس غيره ،
الجمهورية خربت العراق ولحد الآن ماشفنا إلا القتل والخيانة والتخريب والسرقة
كلها بسبب الجمهورية القذرة القبيحة والمنحرفة .
العراق لايصلح له جمهورية إطلاقاً.
ولايصلح للعراق إلا الحكم الملكي فقط ولاغيره.
@@PigyFish كلام غير صحيح ، العراق مر بفترات اسوء من هذه الفترة بكثير لكنه يعود للنهوض، راجع تاريخ العراق جيداً .
I agree
💔Iraq is now deployed and will not prepare like what was tourists wandering every place and now Iraq is a devastating land and I hope that Iraq is also
ههههههه ولله مادري ابجي مدري اضحك
ابجي ابجي
In Sha Allah
Middle East Some Day
Become United
It was a beautiful time when I wasn't even born then
W latach '50 ubiegłego wieku,Irak był na porównywalnym poziomie z Polską,mówimy o tym,że nasz reżim i walka z nim zniszczyły nas.Porównajmy się z dzisiejszym Irakiem!
Iraq oldest than all yorep and you came and say iraq like the yoroep
بلدي الجميل
الحمد لله وان شاء الله نرجع اقوى من قبل
لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.
Our country 💔🇮🇶😔
هاا شني عايشين ميتين
على گولت الأمريكان
To good to be true
This is America now because iraq in the years was advanced
14/7/1958 is the day that Iraq said goodbye to peace and civilization. Generations since then are suffering greatly.
That Coup and the Iranian Revolution, has caused all the current middle eastern problems. 😢
Typical stupid comment blaming Iran, you’re basically a puppet to the BBC
RIP
Kingdom of iraq
1920-1958
So was this filmed during or after the British mandate of Iraq?
After but before the republic
It’s funny how as soon as Iraq’s independence there was a “sudden” interest in oil 🤔
يعني عمر والدي بهذاك الوقت ٩ سنوات وهسه الله يرحمه 😢 اسأل نفسي متى يخترعون الة أستطيع من خلال الصور القديمة ان اذهب لاي مكان اريد ربما اشوف والدي ووالدتي أطفال يلعبون قرب دجلة 😭😭😭😭
Man woke up, got up, walked, innovated, wrote and established a just and faire law first on this land.
The same is the case for many countries in the middles east, Iran 50 years ago was another world. Even eastern Europe and parts of Africa. Western greed, dictatorship and religious extremism is to blame in my opinion. It seems to be 'kill, or be killed' is the only rule applicable to survival in the last century or so... So sad.
Thom Correa
no it hasn't, what you call today "extremists" were part of the Sultanates' armies in Medieval times.
To be clear, religious extremism has existed since Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son, the inquisitions, caliphate's wars & crusades, i don't just refer to middle eastern. So yes, fact, religious extremism has existed for thousands of years, and the 'west' is only really a few hundred years old.
@@tommyc199 get ur self some real knowledge, coz r now u didn't know f all about history or religion.
@@lucianogivani9993 Well said Luciano... Well said.
Unreal
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These beautiful days before Iraq was completely destroyed
7:50
جامع الأمير❤العشار❤
Ageless Iraq is not a remote country.
Human life started from here 🤔
It could be better than Dubai RN.. But Saddam ruined it all
With the help of UK + US
Abdulkarim Qasim ruined it all, saddam tried to make iraq a bit better but then we got invaded.
I wish US and UK didnt know about iraq or other beautiful countries
And then we came. Brought war, death , looted and murdered the leaders of beautiful people.
That's great all of you know how you are dirty
That's A BAD THING?
اووووف اووووف
@9:00 are those the same Marsh Arab tribes that Saddam Hussein had killed and drained their wetlands?
Yea because iran was growing a resistance against his system
In these area
We the USA have destroyed way more. No more peace
It's cuz Iran was using it for their proxies and influence
When britain colonize: education systems, measurement units, infrastructure.
When USA colonize: *Kaboom for Oil?*
Britain and the USA its wrong no one love the English people
بريطانيا ايضا دمرت العراق جميعهم جائو محتلين
those who talked about humanity and peace produce weapons and missiles and nuclear weapons.. 🇺🇸
🇮🇶😥☀️❤️🌸🙏
You're kurdish stop supporting them support your own country and make it independent that's why Kurdistan is not a country
@@hiliax everyone has the right to have a country. I am familiar with everyone who has their own culture and language. no matter if arab or african or european ...
America destroyed this beautiful country & culture.
THAT Was A KINGDOOM TİME ,,,,Was A Very TİME ,,BUT AFTER CAME A Republic SYSTEM ,,Iraq İŞ Ruined ,,,
Kurdistan is paradise
This is iraq.
Mňa v Európe hlava boli zo železa
كان العراق من البلدان المتقدمه
لكن انقلاب عسكري قاده اللواء
عبدالكريم قاسم اعاد العراق
لعصور الظلام والدمار والتخلف
The british kingdom they sold iraqi monarquy to the U.S. goverment after WWII and chnged from monarchy to republic .
7:10 اكراد
How come their females wore no hijabs?
Women don't have wear hijab in Iraq , it's up to the woman and her family
Hijab is not compulsory
This says most of modern Iraq was built by Baathist leaders Saddam and his predecessor Ahmed Hassan Al Baker
When a 50's educational documentary does a better job of depicting Arab music at the start, than that god awful oriental crap westerners usually put in these videos now adays.
5:21 lmao now the kurds richer than arabs in iraq
Good joke they dont even have a country so how could they be richer lol😂
@@lilihoho8744 the governor working on it not the corrupted iraq government
The revolutionaries ruined Iraq and for what?
where did this fake movie come from?
you need to wake up and know who you are talking to i am up and alive but you are dead
btw there was no such film liar.
Your ass
@@emailme23 I am from Iraq and this is true, or it was true before all the war. Believe what you want, but in the end me and my family experienced it and no matter what argument I know im right :)
Not fake movie
The film is not fake my grandfather who grew up in the '50s in Iraq confirmed that all of the footage looks legitimate
Well I saw a different Iraq in 2003