Close Up On Kuwait (1961)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1961
  • Asset ID: 801071
  • Synopsis: A general introduction to the country and people of Kuwait
  • Shotlist: 10:00:00:00 - Begins - narration - GVs of quaint old English village in Surrey, thatched cottage 10:00:25:00 - I/V with Kuwaiti student who is in England for five years to study building and construction 10:01:02:00 - London, and another Kuwaiti student here to study international relations, filmed in front of signs for Italian opera 10:01:32:00 - Another Kuwaiti student studying medicine, I/V with him at a pavement cafe in London 10:02:00:00 - GVs of Kuwait City (?), with buildings and busy streets of traffic 10:02:18:00 - Construction site, GVs of men working, shot from above and looking down with view of traffic 10:03:49:00 - Panning shot of desert and oil refinery, GVs of refinery, pipes, signs, workers 10:04:33:00 - GVs of the port of Mina El Ahmadi, tankers, loading and unloading cargo 10:05:32:00 - Busy street, GVs of various businesses and merchants - carpets, chairs, radios, accordions 10:07:09:00 - Soda fountain with men drinking, automobiles 10:07:20:00 - Kuwait's flag flying, the Sheikh Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah (?) and entourage 10:08:08:00 - State medical clinic, with doctors and patients using equipment and taking medicine 10:08:45:00 - Optometrist fitting lenses 10:09:37:00 - Children running into school gates, sliding down slide, in playground, being lifted on to a wall, all looking very happy. 10:10:22:00 - The classroom, with teacher teaching writing and reading, and maths 10:11:08:00 - Children eating their school dinners, GVs of kitchen: baking bread and making food 10:11:55:00 - Children having a nap 10:12:17:00 - Children reading Braille and speaking English 10:13:45:00 - Playing in the playground 10:14:11:00 - The airport, with people arriving from the plane 10:14:43:00 - Drilling derrick, looking at plans 10:15:00:00 - The new foreign arrivals in Kuwait and their way of life: Christian church, woman at hairdressers with her hair in curlers, reading the newspaper, fixing a car, gardening 10:15:47:00 - English engineer teaching Kuwaiti students 10:16:40:00 - Library GVs 10:17:15:00 - Old City gates, pans to busy modern street 10:18:33:00 - Government development board, GVs of meeting 10:19:15:00 - Benefits of natural gas 10:19:58:00 - Government's experimental farm (see film 'Desert Green'), GVs of crops and livestock, milking a cow, picking cauliflower and other vegetables 10:21:57:00 - Aerial of farm 10:22:00:00 - Minaret, call to prayer, men praying 10:22:21:00 - The Magalies (?) - where every citizen with a petition has right of access to his rulers 10:23:00:00 - Inside a law court 10:23:21:00 - Aerials of coast line and city, GVs of a busy street, children playing in a playground and garden 10:26:22:00 - End
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None