Cairo - Leaving for a day of sightseeing from in front of the Continental Hotel
- العناصر المساهمة:
- الجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة
- البيانات المساهمة:
- الجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة
- عنوان:
- Cairo - Leaving for a day of sightseeing from in front of the Continental Hotel
- تاريخ المصدر:
- 1920s
1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929 - الوصف:
- Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting visits to ancient pharaonic tourist sites like the pyramids at Giza and Sakkara, the Nile River, and scenes of King Fuad at the horse races at Heliopolis. 00:00:00-00:00:35 “Cairo. Leaving for a day’s sightseeing from in front of the Continental Hotel.” Foreign tourists and café staff on terrace; sidewalk with local pedestrians and street with automobiles and trams; 00:00:36-00:01:55 “At the Great Pyramids.” Camels and camel drivers; tourists on camels with pyramids in background; 00:01:56-00:03:06 “The Sphinx and the Temple of the Sphinx”; 00:03:07-00:03:23 Obelisk at ancient Heliopolis with tourists; 00:03:24-00:04:42 “Scenes around the Alabaster Sphinx and the fallen Ramses at Memphis”; Tourists, village shepherd girl with herd of sheep in palm tree grove at site;Camels and trucks carrying goods on road; 00:04:43-00:05:18 “On our way to the Tombs of the Sacred Bulls we pass the Step pyramid. It is over five thousand years old.”; Tourists on donkeys with guides at the Step Pyramid at Sakkara; 00:05:19-00:06:14 “King Fuad at the races at Heliopolis”; King Fuad and male dignitaries on reviewing stand at Heliopolis race course;Egyptian flag flying over grandstand; horses racing on track with specators in forground; 00:06:15-00:06:48 One and two-masted felucca sailboats on Nile River; 00:06:49-00:07:16 “The Nile Valley is from eight to twelve miles wide. Beyond the hills on either side is desert.”: Mountains seen from Nile River.
- نوع المصدر:
- Moving images
- النوع (Raw):
- مقاطع فيديو تاريخية
- (EDM) النوع:
- فيديو
- الموضوع:
- Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
Pyramids--Egypt--Saqqarah
Great Sphinx (Egypt)
Fuad -- I, -- King of Egypt
Nile River - التغطية:
- Cairo; Giza; Heliopolis; Egypt
- حقوق معيار دبلن كور:
- To inquire about permissions or reproductions, contact the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, The American University in Cairo at +20.2.2615.3676 or rbscl-ref@aucegypt.edu.
- المُعرِّف:
- AH25
http://cdm15795.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15795coll23/id/14 - الصيغة:
- video/mp4