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Title: BEIRUT, LEBANON AND JERUSALEM MARCH 1960

Reference number: 10042

Date: 1960

Director: filmed by Robert Sibbald

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.12 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a travel agents' tour to Lebanon and Israel, with visits to Baalbek, Byblos, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Film maker was the Edinburgh based travel agent Robert Sibbald. Sibbald Travel Agents operated for 50 years from 1947. The films show the film maker's travels abroad researching holiday destinations and cruises. The film maker's grandson believes Sibbald took most of the films in order to give talks to various bodies to get business for the travel agency. Sibbald did a lot of work in ski resorts in Europe and he organised the travel for the Scottish curling teams both for holidays and competitions.

Shotlist: [no title] - shot from aircraft window flying over snowy mountain range - group of men and women gathering in hotel courtyard - pan across garden with sea in distance - pan from high angle across archaeological site at Byblos in Lebanon with some standing columns of Roman temple, obelisk temple - gvs town and coastline - pan across town and hills behind - gvs tour party and guides relaxing on steps of Roman theatre - gvs beach and coastline, buildings (1.52) gvs archaeological site at Baalbek in rain, temple of Bacchus - gvs tour party walking around ruins, temples of Bacchus and Jupiter - gvs of site (3.32) gvs at airport, tour party disembarking from Middle East Airlines aircraft, pan across car park - gvs Jerusalem, Temple Mount, tour party - pan across to Tower of Antonia - gvs tour party at Wailing Wall - gvs Mount of Olives? and tour party visiting (5.20) gvs river - gvs landscape, shepherd with flock on road - gvs village (5.59) pan across beach to hotel - gvs tour party getting into cars outside hotel in Jordan - tracking shots from car along road, passing desert, camels (7.08) tour party coming out of Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, in Manger Square, Mosque of Omar - gvs street, garden, view to Church of the Flagellation, civilians marching past with rifles - gvs square and entrance to church, street scene, gardens (8.21) high panning shot across urban landscape - gv Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem - gvs Jerusalem Airport and car park - gvs waterfront and hotel, possibly Beirut, tour party and guides sitting at tables - gvs tour party at Beirut Airport boarding Middle East Airlines aircraft (10.35) shots of tour party disembarking at airport, possibly in Greece - aerial shots of snow-covered mountains from aircraft (11.12)