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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221287-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1954
Country: Egypt,Greece,Sudan
Location: Alexandria,Aswan,Asyut,Cairo,Khartoum,Luxon,Memnon,Thebes
TC Begins: 18:01:03
TC Ends: 18:16:04
Duration: 00:15:01
Egypt And The Nile (missing main title) Encyclopaedia Britannica Map of Africa placing Egypt. 18:01:30 Small stream over rocks, headwaters of Nile River, getting larger; fisherman repairing weir net. Aerial shot of joining of White & Blue Nile at Khartoum, Sudan. Cataracts. 18:02:06 Egyptian temple at Abu-Simbel by Ramesses II (since moved). Dhows sailing on river. Pan over Aswan reservoir & shoreline w/ peasant working in field; man plowing w/ two oxen. Goats, livestock in yard. 18:03:28 Girl serving tea. Man walking across original Aswan Dam (1902). City streets of Aswan, market place & buying & selling. CU. Map. Dam panned across; spillway; locks being operated. Village, dhows. Irrigation & men raising w/ baskets & dumping into ditches & on to the field. Tilt up sandstone cliffs & men working limestone w/ hammers & chisels. Men unloading stones & carrying ashore. 18:06:19 Columns on shore of middle Egyptian valley w/ statues & ruins at Luxor,Thebes & Memnon. Temples along Nile bank. Aerial over desert & sand. Erosion. Date palms & other crops from seen air. 18:07:39 Map showing Asyut; aerial of Asyut. Street scene w/ market vendors, camels, boy grinding ??. Dam at Asyut for irrigation. Fields. of broad valley, farmer irrigating. Oxen turning waterwheel. People outside mud house. 18:09:40 Sugar cane unloaded from dhow by hand. Men stripping leaves from stock by hand. 18:10:22 Pyramids at Giza, man past on camel. Sphinx. Aerial of Cairo. Cotton factories; TWA Constellation taxiing. Skyscrapers & traffic. Modern apartment buildings; small craftsmen working on rugs, inlaying wooden boxes. Silverworking. Christian churches; synagogues; mosques w/ minarets. 18:12:25 Jamia’-Al-Azhar Mohammedan University & students w/ instructor. Other students & people talking in CU. Street scenes, POV from boat. Ferry boat on Nile river. Railroad along riverbank. Aerial over Nile below Cairo in the delta w/ farmers working. Picking cotton. Man cutting sugar cane. 18:14:32 Alexandria buildings & traffic. Docks & ships w/ men loading bags; cranes lifting cotton bales onto ship. Map of Suez canal & aerial shots. Pan of Egyptian art & carving. The End. Geography; Economics; History; Poverty; NOTE: sprocket damage from 18:07:24 until end in middle of picture.