LIBYA: Italian peasants arrive to start Mussolini’s land development scheme (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit One thousand eight hundred Italian peasant families arrive in Africa to start Duce’s big land development scheme. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Duce’s 20,000 Reach Libya LIBYA: Tripoli: Air view Tripoli & harbour.. (long uncut scene at end of story). Top view line of ship & crowd. Semi view people down gangway. CU Arab types saluting. Semi view emigrants looking miserable. CU’s two girl types. CU little . Long view & CU Marshal Balbo. Long view unveiling Statue of Mussolini. CU Statue of Mussolini with Sword of Islam. Top view people cheering & saluting. Good Scenes. Long view statue. Good CU Balbo. ORIG. NEG. Colonists Arrive at Reclaimed Land. Top & long views lorries thru’ streets. Semi view lorries towards. Back view lorry away. Gen. view convoy of lorries arriving. Long view & semi view people