Life in the Sahara, Documentary, 1953

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sixcyl ◊ 2024-02-09 12:49	Documentary about the Sahara in the early 1950s, a geographic entity larger than the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dLGXPZYEw Though it's not mentioned in the narration, the film must have been shot in the Oriental Algerian desert, region of Biskra, El-Oued, Touggourt. The train we see there as well as the plane of the Compagnie Générale Transsaharienne attest to this. Dark vehicle in the background. Train: Railway line Biskra-Touggourt, metric gauge inaugurated in 1914. Theses railcars built by De Dietrich was launched in 1939. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxshZks4U40 Airplane (to be post at IMPDb as soon as possible) Douglas C-47 F-BEIY of the Cie Générale TransSaharienne.
sixcyl ◊ 2024-02-11 10:05	Aircraft at https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Life_in_the_Sahara .

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◊ 2024-02-09 12:49

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Documentary about the Sahara in the early 1950s, a geographic entity larger than the United States.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dLGXPZYEw
Though it's not mentioned in the narration, the film must have been shot in the Oriental Algerian desert, region of Biskra, El-Oued, Touggourt. The train we see there as well as the plane of the Compagnie Générale Transsaharienne attest to this.

Dark vehicle in the background.

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Train:

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Railway line Biskra-Touggourt, metric gauge inaugurated in 1914. Theses railcars built by De Dietrich was launched in 1939.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxshZks4U40

Airplane (to be post at IMPDb as soon as possible)

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Douglas C-47 F-BEIY of the Cie Générale TransSaharienne.

sixcyl

◊ 2024-02-11 10:05

Aircraft at https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Life_in_the_Sahara .

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