Türkiye 1910 – 1930

French film about Turkey with French title and intertitles. ‘A country who is dying – Turkey’.

MS group of ladies and children sat around, hammock rocks in background. MS lots of children and elderly lady looking at camera. MS women covered from head to toe leading child. MS as others follow. MS man in fez walks along. MS people in large rowing boat on river, others sit on bank.

Various shots of other boats on river, some under canopy. MS adults and children milling about. MS bandstand (?) pigeons flock about and take off. LS pan across mosque (?) a man sits cross-legged on rock. MS two gravestones. Pan across gravestones in cemetery. End titles.

Cataloguer’s note: colour tinted.
FILM ID:1932.28