Melon boy of Tel Aviv

Duration: 0:17:30

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Perspective Films: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Rising at dawn, a young boy hitches his horses to a wagon filled with watermelons. The simplicity of the boy and his older brothers peddling melons to housewives, businessmen and passersby is contrasted with the bustle of Tel Aviv with its shiny cars and modern department stores. Throughout this non-narrative film, scenes of Tel Aviv life are juxtaposed with daydream sequences of the young boy riding a stallion across fields and beaches.

Complete Record: , Rising at dawn, a young boy hitches his horses to a wagon filled with watermelons. The simplicity of the boy and his older brothers peddling melons to housewives, businessmen and passersby is contrasted with the bustle of Tel Aviv with its shiny cars and modern department stores. Throughout this non-narrative film, scenes of Tel Aviv life are juxtaposed with daydream sequences of the young boy riding a stallion across fields and beaches. Genre/FormFilms without narration. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library

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