https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bdb4d9d7-ad6f-4b59-ad4f-cc15835209b2 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1964 documentary by Walter Jacob looks at a market day in the city of Shibam in the Hadhramaut Region of Yemen. Shibam is known for its mudbrick-made high-rise buildings and is sometimes referred to as the "Manhattan of the Desert" or "Chicago of the Desert". The city has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.The film starts with a camel caravan entering the city for a market day followed by intense haggling at the market, a call to Muslim prayer, and the caravan leaving the city. Water remains a theme throughout the film with different shots of men and women getting water out of wells. The documentary captures stunning scenery of the cityscape of the “Manhattan of the Desert.” 0:07 A McGraw Hill Contemporary Film, 0:18 sand in a desert, 0:48 a quote from the Quran about water, 1:11 a sand beetle, 1:21 camels walking through the desert in a caravan, 2:33 men getting water out of a well, 2:47 “Shibam Stadt in Südarabien”, 3:10 a film by Walter Jacob, 3:29 the caravan arrives in Shibam, 4:04 an overview of the skyscrapers, 4:30 a man walking his donkey through the street, 4:47 camel caravan arrives at the market place, 5:40 people and their donkeys at wells, 6:34 women getting water out of the well, 7:08 wood being loaded off the camels backs, 7:21 construction workers building a building with mud, 7:39 an overview of the marketplace and close ups of the camels, 8:16 women returning from the wells, 8:47 men haggling at the market,10:26 men and women heading to prayer, 10:52 the Great Mosque in Shibam, 10:57 empty landscapes, 11:24 women carrying water, 11:33 men loading their camels, 12:05 men with their camels leave the marketplace, 12:41 a man with a traditional Hadhramaut Jambiya, 13.01 camel caravan leaves the city, 13:13 the empty market square, 13:51 sand being blown by the wind in front of Shibam. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link 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 http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yPlyUZTD4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:10:27 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bdb4d9d7-ad6f-4b59-ad4f-cc15835209b2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.