“ THE CITY OF ALGIERS “ 1930s BURTON HOLMES SILENT TRAVELOGUE FILM THE KASBAH 98145

Join this channel to get access to perks: This film on Algiers, the capital of Algeria, opens with an animated drawing of a city landscape of the city itself. The City of Algiers. This black and white, 3:46 minute, silent film takes us through some of the truest landscapes of urban Algiers. The film is of general high quality, considering its age and shows excellent detail of some of the most beautiful scenery in Algiers. The ancient harbor of the Barbary Pirates is dominated now by palaces of modern commerce. A view of the city from the harbor, with boats and ships in the forefront: 21. Large ramps with pedestrians and horse-drawn carts climb into the city on huge ramps: 30. The sons of the sea-roving Barbary corsairs of yesterday are the harbor boatmen of today… :39. Men pull ships to shore with large ropes, pulling in unison: 42. Sailors tying knots and mending sails on the docks :50. The aspect of the streets is surprisingly Parisian…: 54. A trolley car rumbles down the road in front of the Hotel Geneve 1:04. A sidewalk café with men standing around 1:12. But the markets are still redolent of the Islam and the East 1:13. Algerian men swarm the marketplace 1:22. Livestock can be seen walking through the market 1:27. The Mosque of the Fisherman or Mosque of the Fisherman’s Wharf overlooks the busy center of “infidel” activities… 1:31. Djamaʽa el Djedid (also rendered Djamaa al-Djedid, or Jamaa El Jedid (meaning New Mosque) is a mosque in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is dated to 1660/1070 AH by an inscription over its main entrance portal. That inscription also attributes its construction to al-Hajj Habib, a Janissary governor of the Algiers region appointed by the Ottoman imperial administration in Istanbul. During the French colonial rule, the mosque was called the Mosquée de la Pêcherie and in English the Mosque of the Fisherman’s Wharf (Mesdjed el-Haoutin). Above the sumptuous city of the Franks we see the whited dwellings of the Arab population… 1:41. The homes of city dwelling Algerians climb the mountain side 1:50. It’s like going back 1000 years to cross the threshold of the Arab city… 1:55. Veiled women – shrouded – faceless – formless – and inscrutable… 2:03. Women and children walk through the alleyways of the city 2:07. The streets of the “ Kasbah ” are seldom on the level… Steep staircases can be found throughout the city 2:20. No rumble of wheeled traffic – nothing save the guttural grumble of Arabic contentions… 2:25. A man smokes in a dark alleyway 2:32. Lost in the labyrinth of an Arabian yesterday… 2:45. Algerians walk through darkened corners of the city 2:54. Women and children navigate the dark alleys from one market vendor to the next 3:15. Children run through the darkened alleys 3:37. Algiers is the capital city of Algeria, on the country’s Mediterranean coast. It’s known for the whitewashed buildings of the Kasbah, a medina with steep winding streets, Ottoman palaces and a ruined citadel. The 17th-century Ketchaoua Mosque is flanked by 2 large minarets. The Great Mosque has marble columns and arches. The clifftop Catholic basilica of Notre-Dame d’Afrique features a large silver dome and mosaics. A Burton Holmes Travel Picture 3:37. In a time before air travel or radio, Burton Holmes set out across the globe. The “world’s greatest traveler” visited nearly every country on the planet, bringing home more than 30,000 photographs, 500,000 feet of film, and unbelievable travel stories that first exposed America to some of these far-flung, mysterious lands. A rare window onto the world of 100 years ago. Burton Holmes invented travelogues. He didn’t invent travel stories; those were old when Odysseus recited his trip report to Homer. He didn’t invent slide shows; magic lantern slide shows were being given in the 1850’s. He didn’t invent moving pictures, but he was the first to show them publicly as part of a lecture series. He didn’t invent the cross-country travel lecture series; John L. Stoddard had been doing that for fifteen years when Holmes began. But Burton Holmes took an enterprise and made it into an art form. Motion picture films don’t last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we’ve worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you’d like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit