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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221668-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1938,1930s
Country: Egypt
Location: Cairo,North Africa
TC Begins: 20:00:01
TC Ends: 20:12:19
Duration: 00:12:18
1938 ca - Egypt: Cairo Scenes, Egyptian Family Scenes; Mme Chaaraoui; Sugar Cane & Refining Arab men sitting at sidewalk tables, playing games, listening to radio & socializing / talking; smoking hookahs & reading newspapers. LS, MS, CUs. 20:02:17 Family in home, man smoking hookah, daughters talking & playing cards, sons (?) talking & listening to radio, mother & young girl talking. LS & MS, CUs. 20:03:30 Mother combing daughters head. 20:03:39 Family eating w/ pita & bread from community pot on sitting on roof or outdoor patio. GOOD 20:05:02 MCU of officials posing on steps for photograph; shake hands. 20:05:33 Overhead shot of men filling park; march into street carrying banner. Man (King Farouk?) on balcony watching / speaking (?). People applaud below. 20:06:26 Palace office interior w/ ornate desk, picture on wall of King. Man, Pasha De ??, enters removes fez & sits at desk writing; secretary brings papers for him to sign; answers phone. 20:07:44 Pasha ?? (w/ Hitler mustache at desk signing papers. Out of building & down steps, picks up small boy / son. 20:08:21 Ext ornate stone home w/ family, Mme Huda Chaaraoui (sp?). Int. smiling women talking seated around table, two men standing watching. 20:09:04 Arab men cutting sugar cane; camels carrying out of field. Train pulling cars loaded w/ cane out of village. Int. of mill & grinding / crushing cane. Men working machines; breaking loose sugar spun on edges of centrifuge. 20:10:54 Ext. of sugar mill. Unloading cane by hand from railroad cars onto conveyor. int. men filling burlap bags w/ sugar. Turning augur & other machines; slurry. Egyptian Politics - 1930s; Officials; Government Officials; VIPs; Sugar Industry; Poverty; Wealth; Society; North Africa; Agriculture;