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Workers stack bars of soap into a tower

In a workshop with walls of rough stone, a tall cylindrical stack of pale soap bars rises, built in open courses so that air can pass through; men hand further bars up to it. Olive-oil soap, dried in such towers for weeks, was the traditional industry of Nablus.

Period
1938
Credit
The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name
HFE010498
Length
0' 12"
Aspect Ratio
0:1
Frames per Second
24 fps
Chroma Subsampling
yuv422p10le
Resolution
1920 × 1080
Format
MOV
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288,174,265 bytes
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