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Footage taken on the morning of Christmas Day in 2010 in Damascus, Syria, a few months before the civil war began. The tune they are playing is "O Come, All Ye Faithful".

Evening take of the lively food market in the centre of the city Xi'an in China, with snack bars, restaurants and stalls. It is run mainly by people of the muslim Hui minority.

This is footage of a being set alight in a controlled environment to demonstate the development of a fire and of flames in simulation of the possible consequences of electrical appliance failure.

Footage of planes landing and on the ground at Tegel Airport in Berlin (Germany) and Heathrow Airport, London (England) at dawn. Different types of aircraft can be seen.

Dusk footage of a street in the City of London, England, near the stock exchange, with passing cars and busses.

This footage demonstrates the electrical failure of a cable-free multiple socket outlet, leading it to smoke and catch fire and subsequently spread flames to a nearby newspaper. It is to demonstrate the danger of putting too much weight on such appliances.

This amusing clip shows four Yemeni boys, who were sheperding their families' herd, saluting to the cameraman - me, a tourist. It was taken near a village in the Haraz mountains.

Nice late evening footage taken from Whitehall (?), London (England) of the road with Big Ben in the background. The vehicles passing include fire engines and a Routemaster bus among cars. Part of the footage is deliberately made to stutter for the effect.

Colour footage of Aden (South Arabia, later South Yemen) around 1967, inculding Gold Mohur, Khormaksar, Isthmus School performance

Unique privately shot colour footage of Jerusalem’s old city and the West Bank in 1966, a year before they were occupied by Israel. It includes outside takes of the Dome of the Rock, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Wailing Wall, Mount of Olives with pans over Jerusalem and the Jewish cemetery, tombs of Absalon and Zachariah, Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Cave of the Patriarchs and Ibra...

Ein Rundgang im Dezember 2009 über das Gelände, das bis Mitte der 70er Jahre die Deutsche Schule Addis Abeba war. Es befindet sich in der nördlichen Innenstadt, unmittelbar neben dem Nationalmuseum, und beherbergt heute das Pharmazeutische Institut der Universität Addis Abeba. A tour in December 2009 on the grounds of what was until the mid-1970s the German School of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It i...

Kozarac (Serb: Козарац) is a small town at the foot of the Kozara mountains in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located near the city of Prijedor, in the overwhelmingly orthodox Serb Republika Srpska (Република Српска) entity. However, most of its inhabitants are muslim Bosniaks who have returned to rebuild their town after being expelled during the Bosnian civil war. During the war, ...

Prijedor (Serb: Приједор) is a town in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in northern part of the Republika Srpska (Република Српска) entity and the Bosanska Krajina region. Prijedor is the second largest municipality in the Republika Srpska entity. As a consequence of the Bosnian civil war the town lost a considerable proportion of its population, with the overwhelming majority no...

Bihać is a city on the Una river in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosniak-Croat Federation), with the majority of the city's approx. 100,000 inhabitants being muslim Bosniaks. The area is now becoming a viable tourist destination for its natural beauty and its hiking and rafting opportunities. There is also a yearly regatta held on the Una, as well as the Bihać Summer theatr...

A walk through Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia) in June 2005

Tour of Ceauşescu's Palace in Bucharest, Romania

Aden, Yemen 2005 (part 2: Gold Mohur, car ride around Aden)

Aden, Yemen 2005 (part 1: Airport, Khormaksar, Crater, Ma'alla, Steamer Point)

Die zerstörte Altstadt von Küstrin (Teil 2), April 2007

Die zerstörte Altstadt von Küstrin (Teil 1), April 2007