vue - Industry and Agriculture in Algeria, 1940's - Film 16515

Industry and agriculture in Algeria in north Africa Middle East. Streets in Paris, France with plaque to long dead writers, Racine, Baudelaire. Boulevard St Germaine, bookshop frontages, Editions, le divan, Lammarion, good bohemian intellectual Paris, a hand flicks though a book of plates of French artists, Two French bookworms discuss a book inside a crowded bookshop, one man smokes a pipe. The two men look at the structure of the book itself, one man points out "alfa" on the frontispiece. A wide field of crop, alfalfa. An old tree. Harvesting the crop, a camel caravan take it away. A group of middle eastern farmers sit in a group and roast goat over a fire. A mechanical baler. Bales loaded onto a lorry. A sign post reads Guefsit, Krosni and Chellala, a town in Algeria. The crop is driven to the harbour and loaded onto ship. A railway station with a sign "Baba Ali" More fields and modern factory. Many shots of the factory. The alfa is in large piles on the ground. A tractor takes it into the factory. Many very boring shots of the detail of production. Paper manufacture. The rolls are cut and checked. Close up of piles of books.