MON ALGER (My Algiers)

Jean BÉLANGER
1960
Version : French
Duration : 23'
Format : 16 mm. - Béta Digit. - Mpeg4
Colors
Scriptwriter : Jean POMIER & Jean BÉLANGER
Country France
With Commentaire dit par Jean BÉLANGER
Picture Georges LECLERC
Stage set Algiers
With the participation of Office Algérien d'Action Économique et Touristique
Archive footage - Bridge of a ship anchored in Algiers, view of the port (pano.),
- Traffic on the port (red bus), port seen from the window of a taxi,
- Trolleybus in a street, travelling car in a street,
- Various busy streets and avenues, stepped streets, gardens,
- City architecture, buildings, building terraces,
- View from above of the Bouzaréa, the port, districts,
- Mosques, neo-Moorish buildings (Prefecture, Post Office),
- Modern buildings (General Government, Town Hall, etc.)
- Gardens with running children, the Summer Garden, lively streets,
- Delicatessen, espadrille maker, milkman, ice-cream parlour, fishermen returning home,
- Old Arab accompanied by his son and sisters in horns,
- Traffic in Algiers,
- Children playing in a park,
- Young athletes (hurdles, high jump, shot put),
- At the beach. Horse show
- Meeting of society ladies,
- Trams passing in front of the theatre, brass band, 2 cinemas (Le Debussy and Le Plaza: exit),
- A man mimes the action of a film,
- Workers on a building site,
- Women working on a machine in a tobacco factory, filling machine, gas factory, railway workshop,
- The harbour at night, boats entering and leaving the quay, quay at a standstill, tugboat in the distance,
- Reflections of the sea on the hull of a boat,
- Harbour atmosphere: returning from fishing, boats moored, tug leaving the quay, shipyard, seagulls flying, cranes, anchors being hauled up, men talking to each other, ships alongside, cargo ships, liners,
- Ships leaving port, bows, propeller wash,
- The port, cargo loading (crates, sheep, wheat, esparto, wood), customs control, traffic, tanker truck.

The city of Algiers at the time of colonisation.