LIBYA: Italian peasants arrive to start Mussolini's land development scheme (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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One thousand eight hundred Italian peasant families arrive in Africa to start Duce's big land development scheme.
Full Description:
SLATE INFORMATION: Duce's 20,000 Reach Libya
LIBYA: Tripoli:
Air view Tripoli & harbour.. (long uncut scene at end of story). Top view line of ship & crowd. Semi view people down gangway. CU Arab types saluting. Semi view emigrants looking miserable. CU's two girl types. CU little boy..salutes. Long view & CU Marshal Balbo. Long view unveiling Statue of Mussolini. CU Statue of Mussolini with Sword of Islam. Top view people cheering & saluting.
Good Scenes.
Long view statue. Good CU Balbo. ORIG. NEG.
Colonists Arrive at Reclaimed Land.
Top & long views lorries thru' streets. Semi view lorries towards. Back view lorry away. Gen. view convoy of lorries arriving. Long view & semi view people out of lorries at house.
Italy; Colonialism
Background: One thousand eight hundred Italian peasant families arrive in Africa to start Duce's big land development scheme.
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