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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221671-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1938
Country: Egypt
Location: Cairo,Nile River,North Africa,Suez Canal
TC Begins: 02:06:44
TC Ends: 02:17:31
Duration: 00:10:47
Egypt, 1938 - Daily Life; Dhows on Nile River; Dam & Construction; Suez Canal Large market scene w/ camels, crowds & tents; city in background beyond wall (?). MS camels, Arabs, bicycles, burros. 02:07:09 People walking thru streets. POV of moving camera past men standing beside hanging meet carcasses over sidewalk, people walking past in native dress. Meat; vegetable markets. 02:08:48 Men rotating small wooden ferris wheel w/ kids in swinging baskets outside house. 02:09:04 Women / girls washing in edge of Nile River w/ small boats anchored. Many dhows anchored. 02:09:55 Arab men squatting on sand; dhows sailing away from camera. 02:10:52 Dhows docked along edge of river; loaded dhows being poled, others sail behind. 02:11:43 Bridge over Nile; Large stone lions at entrance to bridge. 02:12:18 Dhow / barge w/ ?? along dock; many boats into river, under sail. 02:12:48 Man shearing burro w/ hand clippers. 02:13:12 Steam driven crane on construction pilings next to dam (?) spillway; lowering stone blocks. People crossing above. Men dumping carts of concrete. LS dam & men working along construction forms excavating & carrying bags of mud & stone. 02:14:55 Turrets above dam. Men on empty dhow barge below dam. Men w/ pack animals across dam. Boats. Roadway lowered by chains after boat. 02:16:15 Men spreading cotton from bales (some camera shutter problem). POV across dam roadway. View of boat thru dam passageway. 02:17:08 (no shutter problem) Freighters entering Suez Canal. Anchored ships. Arabs; Egyptians; 1930s;