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Softcover. Condition: Good- to good condition. First edition. Octavo. 23 (1)pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering, illustrated with depiction of a film reel. This first sound movie on Palestine* was produced by Keren Hajessod, Jerusalem, a Fox Movietone film of the Urim Palestine Film Company, Jerusalem. It was directed and edited by Juda Leman for the Keren Hayesod, production manager Leo Herrmann with music by Boris Morros and songs by Daniel Sambursky. The movie premiered in May 1935 in Berlin, was shown at the Venice Biennale of the same year, and in November 1935 in Tel Aviv and New York, here with Albert Einstein present. It depicts the buildup of Jewish homes in Israel providing insight into the life of the pioneers. The booklet contains four of the film's songs in German and Hebrew, a speech given at a mass event in Haifa, a description of the Zionist Movement, a list of Zionist organizations in Germany, and two photo-illustrated contributions on the Keren Hajessod and the Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael (in charge of land policy). An advertisement for the biweekly "Jüdische Rundschau" and a score with text for the song Hatikwa at the end complete the program. The photos were provided by Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael, printed by Siegfried Scholem, Berlin. Text in German and Hebrew. Some wear along edges of wraps and spine, small chips and closed tears with light creasing. Remnant of brown stamp and small scuff on cover with light sunning in center. Inked name at top of foredge on title page. Brief Hebrew note inked on page 5. Booklet block age-toned with light vertical crease in middle. * Baruch Agadati made the first Hebrew language newsreels and with his film "This is the Land" he too claims to have created the first full-length Hebrew film with sound in 1935. "This is the Land" celebrates the fifty years of Jewish growth and cultivating Canaan. The Zionist propaganda film tells the story of the land from the foundation of the first Jewish colonies in 1882, through W.W.I., the Balfour Declaration, the establishment of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and other events.