1. AUC Campus Scenes for AUC Promotional Film

الوصف:

Film, black and white without sound, depicting students on campus, including athletics. 00:00:00-00:00:37 Students on athletics field boxing; 00:00:38-00:00:57 Student track and field events including high jump, long jump, and discus throw; 00:00:58-00:01:20 Student boxing match; 00:01:21-00:01:48 Student track and field events including high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin throw, and shot put; 00:01:49-00:02:27 AUC Main Palace Building with royal-era Egyptian flag flying, students leaving building main door including male and female students ("coeds") and male Lincoln School high school students; 00:02:28-00:02:39 Students (one with bicycle) leaving campus through Kasr El Aini Street gate with trams in background, passing staff including zabit (guard)

2. AUC Campus and Cairo Scenes
“Main Building, SOS wing, Old Hostel, Cairo Street,” 1940s on Canister

الوصف:

Film, black and white without sound, depicting administrators and faculty and students on campus, and street scenes of the neighborhood around the university showing food vendors and pedestrians and various modes of transportation. 00:00:00-00:00:34 Male and Female AUC Students outside entrance to Main Palace Building, AUC Campus with Main Palace Building and Ewart Hall Building seen from Kasr El Aini Street, with pedestrians and vehicle traffic; 00:00:00-00:01:03 AUC Campus with School of Oriental Studies Building and Ewart Hall Building and Main Palace Building seen from Sultan Hussein (later Sheikh Rihan) Street and Kasr El Aini Street, with pedestrians and vehicle traffic, with view of apartment buildings on Mohamed Mahmoud Street and Ismailia Square 00:01:04-00:01:25 Kasr El Aini Street view facing north from Ste Marie De La Paix church, with pedestrians and vehicle traffic including trams, buses, horsecart with men, women and children 00:01:26-00:03:47 Kasr El Aini Street scenes with garbage collector sweeping trash, street vendors with children pushing carts with vegetables, donkey-drawn movers wagon carrying furniture, Egyptian policemen or soldiers in uniform on foot and bicycle, trams, automobiles, and trucks, street vendors selling bread to customer, large-wheeled horse carts, view of Ste Marie De La Paix church, horsecart with men, women and children, horse-drawn watermelon cart, erk sous liquorice juice vendor,

3. AUC Campus and Cairo Scenes
“AUC Color Original” on Canister

الوصف:

Film, in color without sound, of AUC administrators and faculty and students on campus, the neighborhood around the university, student athletics, and a visit to the site of the proposed Giza suburban campus. Includes footage of sea and railway travel to and from Egypt and Cairo, Cairo street scenes showing various modes of transportation and a royal procession, leisure activities, and visits to tourist sites like the pyramids and Khan al Khalili. 00:00:00-00:00:45 Sea voyage to Egypt from New York via Europe; 00:00:45-00:01:03 Cairo Railway Station; 00:01:04-00:02:10 Ismailia (later Tahrir) Square views of Egyptian Museum, apartment buildings, AUC Main Palace Building, with streetcars and automobiles; 00:02:11-00:02:24 AUC Ewart Hall and Oriental Hall Buildings and street views with pedestrians and automobiles and horse and donkey carts; 00:02:25-00:02:39 Ismailia (later Tahrir) Square views of buildings and traffic policeman, pedestrians, streetcars, automobiles, bicycles, and human and animal-drawn carts and carriages; 00:02:40-00:03:08 Shepheard's Hotel and street views with pedestrians, streetcars, and vehicles; 00:03:09-00:03:38 Opera Square views with Cairo Opera House, Continental-Savoy Hotel; 00:03:39-00:03:53 Ezbekeya Gardens; 00:03:54:00:04:00 Ancient Heliopolis site with Obelisk; 00:04:01-00:04:23 Bab El Louk Railway Station; 00:04:24-00:04:32 Swimmers in swimming pool possibly at Gezira Sporting Club or Maadi Sporting Club; 00:04:33-00:04:55 Americans or Europeans and Egyptians in garden of villa; 00:04:56-00:06:49 Kasr El Aini Street with Royal carriage procession with standing and horse-mounted soldiers viewed from AUC campus; 00:06:50-00:08:16 AUC administrators including President Charles Watson and faculty and farm staff and visitors at planned suburban campus site in Giza with view of pyramids and farming activities; 00:08:17-00:08:52 Faculty and wives and children at Giza Pyramids and Sphinx including camel riding; 00:08:53-00:09:02 Nile river with feluccas and small boats with villas on shore; 00:09:03-00:10:24 Sultan Hassan Mosque outside and inside with visitors, Citadel and nearby mosques; 00:10:25-00:10:34 Views of Downtown Cairo Emad Eddin Street from above; 00:10:35-00:11:05 Citadel Mohamed Ali Mosque; 00:11:06-00:11:37 Khan al Khalili souvenir shops; 00:11:38-00:12:06 AUC Main Palace Building and students exiting through Kasr al Aini Street gate past zabit (guard); 00:12:06-00:12:13 Students playing volleyball; 00:12:14-00:12:28 Students on campus; 00:12:29-00:12:44 Faculty with tennis rackets; 00:12:25-00:13:09 Campus view of Main Palace Building and Ewart Hall from Kasr El Aini Street; 00:13:10- 00:13:19 President Charles R. Watson and Dean John S. Badeau in conversation on campus; 00:13:20-00:13:55 Students on campus with Mohamed Mahmoud Street buildings in background over campus wall; 00:13:56-00:15:02 Oriental Hall and Ewart Hall building entrances on Sultan Hussein Street (later Sheikh Rihan Street) with sheikhs and AUC administrators Robert S. McClenahan, Amir Boctor, and others; 00:15:03-00:15:15 Wendell Cleland in office with two unidentified Egyptian staff members or students; 00:15:16-00:15:55 Trains at railway station platforms; 00:15:56-00:16:11 View of sea from deck of ship and passengers disembarking; 00:16:12-00:16:34 Tourists at Mediterranean volcanic site; 00:16:34-00:17:30 Ship in European port, view of passing ships at sea, New York harbor with Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline

4. AUC Campus and Egypt and Cairo Scenes
“Cairo scenes, marketplace scenes, 1940s” on Canister

الوصف:

Film footage, black and white and without sound, of faculty and students on the AUC campus as well as faulty and staff outings, including outdoor animal and agriculture markets. 00:00:00-00:00:09 Map of route across Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea to Egypt; 00:00:10-00:00:18 Office, possibly an Egyptian government ministry with Egyptian academics including possibly Taha Hussein and AUC administrator-faculty member Amir Boctor (1930s-1940s); 00:00:19-00:00:44 Male and female students entering Sheikh Rihan Street AUC Ewart Hall building entrance, greeted by Dean Russell Galt 00:00:45-00:00:56 Students and faculty member in Chemistry Laboratory; 00:00:57-00:01:17 Unidentified American man and woman entering Main Palace Building Entrance, exiting automobile and entering Sheikh Rihan Street AUC Ewart Hall building entrance; 00:01:18-00:01:52 Students on campus athletic field doing calisthenic exercises and gymnastics; 00:01:53-00:02:10 Students studying and reading newspapers in library; 00:02:11-00:03:35 American faculty members or language students on tourist outing wearing Arab keffiyeh head scarves, including woman with rifle and local Egyptian guides and village resident adults and children; 00:03:36-00:09:45 Outdoor market scenes, possibly Friday Market, with mostly farm animals and agricultural products for sale.

5. AUC Campus, Assiout Y.M.C.A, and Cairo Scenes
“Egypt – Am. U.P. Miss. Assiout 1927, A.U.C. 1922, 1927, Cairo St. Sc- 1926-” on Canister

الوصف:

Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting Assiout Young Men’s Christian Association facility and (probably) American United Presbyterian Mission staff, Cairo tourist sites and city views, and faculty and students on the AUC campus. 00:00:00-00:01:10 Assiout Young Men’s Christian Association facility garden, with three young children and Egyptian woman (possibly grandmother) and man (possibly grandfather) photographing them with camera, joined by two American men in suits, and then other Egyptian men wearing tarbooshes, possibly American United Presbyterian Mission personnel; 00:01:11-00:01:54 Intertitle Card: “Y.M.C.A. Assiout”; American and Egyptian Men exiting gate of Y.M.C.A. facility to waiting automobile; One American and one Egyptian man dance (the “Charleston” or similar steps); American man with amputated leg on crutches stand outside gate with several Egyptian men and boys; 00:01:55-00:02:23 “Intertitle Card: “Citadel overlooking Cairo”;Three American men (two possibly adolescents) walking up road and standing at edge of Mokkattam plateau looking over Cairo, with the Mosque or Mashhad of Guyushi in background behind them; Views of Cairo and Citadel; 00:02:24-00:02:29 Intertille Card: “Alabaster Mosque”; Mosque of Mohamed Ali at the Citadel; 00:02:30-00:02:34 Unidentified American (?) man outside unidentified building, possibly AUC campus; Egyptian man, possibly caretaker, outside unidentified building (possibly AUC campus); 00:02:35-00:03:36 Students exiting building on the AUC campus, possibly leaving chapel services, and descending stairs; 00:03:37-00:03:42 Two American (?) boys and young child in garden; 00:03:43-00:04:18 AUC students and Principal Robert S. McClenahan and faculty member Marcel Kiven; groups of students on campus; 00:04:19-00:00:00 Unidentified American faculty member wearing eyeglasses; caretaker or zabit (guard) or grounds worker in front of Main Palace Building; student exiting Main Palace Building; adolescent Egyptian in turban and traditional clothing; faculty member, possibly Arthur Jeffrey; two American faculty members in garden between Main Palace Building and Kasr El Aini Street; 00:04:29-00:04:34 Nile River with two-masted sailboat; 00:04:35-00:04:46 Egyptian men, possibly government officials, with servants ascending stairs from an area with tents; 00:04:47-00:05:10 Egyptian soldiers marching in Kasr El Aini Street in front of AUC Main Palace Building building, followed by military band; 00:05:11-00:05:45 AUC administrators and faculty, including President Charles R. Watson, Robert S. McClenahan, Marcel Kiven, Wendell Cleland and others exiting building on the AUC campus, possibly leaving chapel services, and descending stairs, followed by students; 00:05:46-00:05:59 View from Gezira Island from Kasr El Nil Bridge across Nile River to central Cairo, including Semiramis Hotel

6. AUC Promotional Film "Education for Freedom: An American University in Cairo"

الوصف:

AUC Promotional Film, in color with sound, sent to universities and potential donors abroad, featuring university administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni, campus buildings and facilities, and programs and projects. Also depicts Cairo and historic monuments and tourist sites. 00:00:00-00:01:18 Sphinx and Giza Pyramids; Nile River with felucca boat and pyramids and shoreside villa in background; Nile River with Cairo modern buildings and bridges and boats; Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church (Hanging Church) and Greek Orthodox Church of St. George and Babylon Fortress ruins in Old Cairo; Road leading to Citadel with Mosque of Mohamed Ali; Minaret of Al-Hussein Mosque and Muski Street area; Brassware shop; 00:01:19-00:02:07 Egyptian folk musicians and Tahtib (stick) dancers performing; 00:02:09-00:02:36 AUC Commencement procession passing Main Palace Building entrance; 00:02:37-00:02:53 Tourists (possibly AUC faculty with family) and camel driver at the Sphinx and Giza Pyramids; 00:02:54-00:03:17 Sailing boats with crew on bank of Nile River with Cairo buildings in background; Nile River with Cairo modern buildings and bridges and boats; Al-Hussein Mosque and Muski Street area; Vegetable vendor stall on street with passing pedestrians; 00:03:18-00:03:22 Egyptian folk musicians and Tahtib (stick) dancers performing; 00:03:23-00:04:01 Nile Hilton Hotel and Tahrir Square with Mogamma and AUC Campus with Main Palace Building, with buses and other vehicles; 00:04:02-00:04:18 President Raymond F. McLain and Vice President Hanna Rizk entering Main Palace Building; 00:04:19-00:04:35 Oriental Hall interior and doorway; 00:04:36-00:04:42 President Raymond F. McLain and Vice President Hanna Rizk in President’s Office; voiceover by President McLain begins; 00:03:43-00:05:41 Main Palace and Ewart Hall building exteriors with American flag and faculty and students and gardening staff; rear courtyard sides of Ewart hall and Main Palace buildings; 00:05:42-00:05:46 Social Research Center offices and faculty and staff, including Robert Fernea and Sohair Mehanna; 00:05:47-00:06:13 Division of Extension adult education program students in sculpture and ceramics studio; Beatrice McLain with student and her painting; 00:06:14-00:06:24 President Raymond F. McLain and Vice President Hanna Rizk in President’s Office; 00:06:25-00:06:44 Student Council members, Student Council President Kamal Selim Gindi and Dean of Students Howard Reid; 00:06:45-00:07:44 Faculty, staff, and students at Arab Cultural Club “oriental party” traditional Egyptian cultural event and meal; 00:07:45-00:08:30 Male and female students on campus; male and femaile student athletes playing volleyball, tennis, basketball and fencing, at Sports Day tournament and award ceremony, with Hill House in background; 00:08:31-00:09:02 Campus Caravan student newspaper staff in office with advisor Joe Lehman; newspapers distributed at Arab Cultural Club “oriental party” traditional Egyptian cultural event and meal; 00:09:03-00:09:34 Science Honor Society event with astronomy telescope viewing and chemistry and rocket displays; 00:09:35-00:10:02 Alumni Board members, including Aida Fahmy Sourial, in office with Alumni Secretary Manucher Moadeb Zadeh; 00:10:03-00:10:10 Female faculty member in classroom with students; 00:10:11-00:10:18 Male faculty member in classroom with map of United States, with students; 00:10:19-00:10:38 English Language Institute classrooms with faculty members and students with audio tape player; 00:10:39-00:10:58 Faculty member office and seminar room or classroom with professors and students; 00:10:59-00:11:23 AUC administrators and faculty in President’s Office including President Raymond McLain, Vice President Hanna Rizk, and Alan Horton; 00:11:24-00:11:33 Student Council members, Student Council President Kamal Selim Gindi and Dean of Students Howard Reid; 00:11:34-00:12:02 Students and faculty member Zaki Khalil Hanna in chemistry and physics laboratories; 00:12:03-00:13:02 Beatrice McLain and staff member with Egyptian artifacts and handicrafts for proposed AUC folk art museum including inlay work, mashrabeyya, and textiles; 00:13:03-00:13:25 Faculty members Sir K.A.C. Creswell and Christel Kessler with Creswell’s library in School of Oriental Studies Building; 00:13:26-11-00:13:47 School of Oriental Studies Building exterior and entrance with staff doorman Al Daww; 00:13:48-00:14:03 School of Oriental Studies faculty members including Mohamed Al-Nowaihi and Sami Badrawi and Arabic language teaching sheikhs in Oriental Hall; 00:14:04-00:14:20 Social Research Center staff with President Raymond McLain, Vice President Hanna Rizk, and Dean of Graduate Faculty Alan Horton in President’s Office; 00:14:21-00:14:29 Faculty member and Arabic language teaching sheikh in office; 00:14:30-00:14:41 Faculty member and students in Arabic language classroom; 00:14:42-00:15:23 Faculty members in offices, including Otto Meinardus, editing AUC Press book manuscripts; 00:15:24-00:15:42 Faculty member with graduate students in classroom; 00:15:43-00:16:00 AUC administrators and faculty in President’s Office including President Raymond McLain and Vice President Hanna Rizk; voiceover about graduate studies emphasis; 00:16:01-00:16:03 Students and faculty member S.Porter Miller in science laboratory; 00:16:04-00:16:37 AUC Library with staff including Nicola George; Library director Mahmoud Shiniti with faculty or staff member in office; student browsing Creswell book; Hill House exterior; 00:16:38-00:16:43 Faculty member Christel Kessler with Creswell’s library in School of Oriental Studies Building; 00:16:44-00:16:48 Social Research Center staff with President Raymond McLain and Vice President Hanna Rizk in President’s Office; 00:16:49-00:17:09 United Arab Republic and United States of America flags; 00:17:10-00:17:51 Man and woman standing on top of Main Palace Building; Views of Tahrir Square, with Egyptian Museum and Arab Socialist Union Building in background, during celebration with banners; 00:17:52-00:18:17 Sphinx and Giza Pyramids; Sailing boats on bank of Nile River with Cairo buildings in background; Road leading to Citadel with Mosque of Mohamed Ali; Camels with riders; 00:18:18-00:19:18 AUC Commencement with students and faculty, including Laila Hamamsy, in academic caps and gowns (some smoking cigarettes) beside Main Palace Building; AUC Commencement with students and faculty and administrators (including President Raymond McLain) in front of Main Palace Building

7. AUC Promotional Film “The American University at Cairo” with Cairo Scenes
“Cairo Scenes III, 1930s-1940s” on Canister

الوصف:

Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting administrators and faculty and students on campus including a Commencement procession, classrooms and science laboratories, athletics, and buildings and facilities like Ewart Hall auditorium. Features Cairo street scenes, various modes of transportation, commerce and trades, and Egyptian Muslim religious practices. Also shown are the Nile River, rural villages scenes, and visits to tourist sites like the Sphinx and Giza Pyramids and mosques and other Islamic monuments. 00:00:00-00:00:46 Captioned "The American University at Cairo" "From New York, the center of our modern civilization, to Cairo, the center of the oldest recorded civilization - and it takes only eleven days." New York harbor and Manhattan skyline viewed from ship, map of route across Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea to Egypt; 00:00:46-00:01:29 "CAIRO Where a Great American Character-Making Institution Comes in Contact With the Life of the East." Birds-eye views of Cairo Cities of the Dead cemeteries and monuments, villas amid agricultural fields near Nile river, Mosque of Mohamed Ali at Citadel; 00:01:30-00:01:38 "A Harem Window." Buildings with mashribayya windows; 00:01:39-00:01:59 "On entering a Mosque the Moslem removes his shoes while a Christian is asked to put sandals over his." Mosque attendant providing slippers to cover shoes of tourists; 00:02:00-00:02:12 "Here Resides the Spirit of a Moslem Saint - The Tying of Bits of Clothing of the Sick to this Gate is Supposed to Effect a Cure." Bab Zuwayla gate street scene; 00:02:13-00:02:53 "The Streets of Cairo." Street with Western-style E Hatoun storefront window, traditional neighborhood streets with human and animal-drawn carts, pedestrians, vendors, including Bab Zuwayla gate area; 00:02:54-00:03:02 "A Weaver at work."; 00:03:03-00:03:11 "Ironing - Egyptian Style." Shopkeeper pressing cloth using foot-iron; 00:03:12-00:03:22 "A Barber in Action." Shaving a man's head outdoors; 00:03:23-00:03:31 "Mish-Mish - Apricot Blossoms for sale." 00:03:32-00:04:06 "Transportation - Old and New." People riding and leading donkeys, human and animal-drawn carts and carriages, automobiles. "Here Comes a Ford!"; 00:04:07-00:04:39 "No Visitor misses these Ancient Monuments." Sphinx and Giza pyramids, tourists on camels 00:04:40-00:05:17 “A Felucca on the Nile.” 00:05:18-00:05:39 “An Egyptian Village - the Houses are made of Mud Bricks.” Buildings on shore of Nile River, men riding camels. 00:05:40-00:05:16 “The Nile Valley is from eight to twelve miles wide. Beyond the hills on either side is desert.” Nile river and riverbank scenes. 00:05:17-00:06:54 "Main College Building - Formerly a Pasha's Palace." Still images of campus and Main Palace Building from Kasr El Aini Street, Side of Main Palace Building viewed from north with athletic field; 00:06:55-00:07:57 “The University is located in the heart of official Cairo with the House of Parliament one block away.” “The King drives by on his way to open Parliament.” Kasr El Aini Street with royal carriage procession with standing and horse-mounted soldiers viewed from AUC campus; 00:07:58-00:08:17 “Dr. Charles R. Watson, President of the University.” Watson walking through Kasr El Aini Street campus entrance gate, still portrait of Watson; 00:08:18-00:08:34 "Dr. R.S. McClenahan, Dean of the University, For 33 Years in close touch with the problems of Egypt." McClenahan walks near Kasr El Aini Street campus entrance gate with zabit (guard) and other staff member and people in street in background. 00:08:35-00:09:30 "Upper Classmen at work in the science department." Faculty member teaching laboratory class, students performing chemistry experiment in laboratory; 00:09:31-00:09:39 "A Lecture." Students seated in classroom; 00:09:40-00:10:29 "Leaving the Assembly Hall after daily chapel exercises. Dr. Watson President of the University and Dr. McClenahan followed by the teaching staff and students." Administrators include Wendell Cleland, Amir Boctor, others; 00:10:30-00:11:04 "Student Groups" Students on campus; 00:11:05-00:11:26 “A Faculty Group – Messrs. Cleland, McClenahan, and Leete.” Faculty with Asian student on campus with Kasr El Aini Street in background; 00:11:27-00:11:39 “More than tongue is needed to express one’s self in Arabic.” Students wearing tarboushes on campus making hand gestures. 00:11:40-00:12:09 "The 'Garden' - Now an Athletic Field." Views of campus with surrounding streets and buildings in background, with side-views of Main Palace Building, outbuildings, and gardeners; 00:12:10-00:13:41 “Annual ‘Sports Day’ at the College.” Caption with logo depicting basketball player, student athletic events including gymnastics, track races, bicycle riding and tug-of-war 00:13:42-00:14:11 “The King’s band furnishes oriental music while Dean Galt, seated on the right, lends an appreciative ear.” 00:14:12-00:14:29 "Another University department - The School of Oriental Studies where the foreigner learns to master the difficult Arabic language." Still image of library with faculty and students; 00:14:30-00:14:42 "Ewart Memorial Hall - the New College Auditorium"; 00:14:43-00:14:58 "Commencement Day." President Watson and Dean McClenahan and faculty and staff in procession from side entrance to Main Palace Building; 00:14:59-00:15:10 “This American Institution is in Egypt to give and not to get, to share with the Egyptians the very best in our Christian civilization.”

8. AUC Promotional film “The Best of Both Worlds”
Long Version, “First Trial 16mm Print” on Canister

الوصف:

AUC Promotional Film, in color with sound, sent to universities and potential donors abroad, featuring university administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni, campus buildings and facilities, and programs and projects. Also depicts Cairo and historic monuments and tourist sites. 00:00:00-00:00:24 Mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and other funerary artifacts in Egyptian Museum; 00:00:25-00:00:35 Sphinx and Giza Pyramids; 00:00:36-00:00:44 Ancient pharaonic statues; 00:00:45-00:00:48 Ramses Square with Railway Station; 00:00:49-00:00:51 Tahrir Square; 00:00:52-00:01:01 Citadel area, crowd of people in street, Muslim worshippers at modern mosque; 00:01:02-00:01:11 Bellydancer performing, Sufi whirling tannoura dance performance; 00:01:12-00:01:16 Tahrir Square and AUC Campus with Science Building and Main Palace Building; 00:01:17-00:01:29 Female students sitting on lawn in front of Science Building, Students on campus; 00:01:30-00:01:43 Male and female faculty members sitting, standing on campus, including Farkhonda Hassan and Tim Sullivan; 00:01:44-00:01:56 Students at table in Creswell Library in School of Oriental Studies Building, Film Title “The Best of Both Worlds”; 00:01:57-00:02:31 President Richard F. Pedersen walking on campus addressing camera, with Main Palace Building in background; 00:02:32-00:02:45 Students entering Ewart Hall Building, Main Palace Building main inside staircase, with Pedersen providing voice-over about study abroad at AUC; 00:02:46-00:02:56 Ancient Egyptian tomb interior; Sultan Hassan Mosque exterior; moulid scene with musicans; felucca boat on Nile River with mosque in background; 00:02:57-00:04:08 Fustat archaeological excavations with Faculty member George T. Scanlon; 00:04:09-00:05:47 Students including Islamic Art graduate students Elhamy Naguib at table in Creswell Library in School of Oriental Studies Building with Fustat ceramic and glass artifacts; Images from books from Creswell Library; 00:05:48-00:06:23 Arabic instrumental music performance by musicians outside Oriental Hall in fountain courtyard with audience; 00:06:24-00:06:49 Sufi whirling tannoura dance performance and musicians in performance outside Science Building; 00:06:50-00:08:39 Al Azhar Mosque; Islamic art and architecture faculty member Geoffrey King leading student class tour at Sultan Hassan Mosque; 00:08:40-00:10:54 Students in Egyptology classroom with faculty member Ali Hassan; Hassan leading student class tours inside ancient Egyptian tomb and pyramid at Giza 00:10:55-00:11:46 Labib Habachi speaking in his library donated to AUC; 00:11:47-00:12:33 Faculty and students in Arabic Language Institute audio visual laboratory; 00:12:34-00:13:07 View of Cairo neighborhoods from Bab Zuwayla minaret with Citadel in background, and muezzin making call to prayer sounding; 00:13:08-00:14:19 Crowd of people in street, Social Research Center faculty member Asad Nadim visiting arabesque and mashribeyya woodworking shop; 00:14:20-00:14:36 Students making payments, possibly at Registration, in Oriental Hall; 00:14:37-00:15:15 English language classroom in Main Building with faculty member and students; 00:15:16-00:15:56 AUC student drama group performance rehearsal in theater; 00:15:57-00:16:12 Mass Communications journalism students in Caravan student newspaper newsroom; 00:16:13-00:17:32 Al Akhbar al Youm newspaper offices, printshop, and staff including alumnus Editor Mustafa Amin; 00:16:13-00:19:00 Alumna Suzanne Mubarak in Bulaq school with children and speaking about her children’s care and recreation programs project 00:19:01-00:20:01 Basaisa village project with solar energy panels, female workers inside textile workshop, and farmers with irrigation system, with faculty member Salah Arafa; 00:20:02-00:21:43 Faculty member Farkhonda Hassan in science classroom, Students in engineering and laboratories, with faculty member Fadel Assabghy; 00:21:44-00:22:56 Social Research Center project trainee speaking with residents in village, with children; 00:22:56-00:23:14 AUC Bookstore interior in Hill House with AUC Press books; 00:23:14-00:23:37 AUC Main Palace Building; Still image of President Anwar Sadat; Ewart Hall Building Entrance; Students on campus; 00:23:38-00:23:39 AUC Bookstore interior in Hill House; 00:23:40-00:24:48 Management Studies classroom with businessmen students and faculty member Amr Mortagy; student at computer; small seminar; brochure and publication covers; businessman student discussing executive education in his office; 00:24:49-00:26:01 Division of Public Service adult/continuing education English language classrooms with students and faculty members; CACE computer and secretarial skills typing classroomns with students; 00:26:02-00:26:29 AUC alumna bank teller at counter with customers; office with workers; 00:26:30-00:26:36 AUC Main Palace Building 00:26:37-00:26:48 AUC Commencement in Ewart Hall with faculty, administrators, and students; 00:26:49-00:27:03 Students in classroom; Student in Egyptology classroom; Students in science or engineering laboratory; Children at Suzanne Mubarak school recreation project; 00:27:04-00:27:09 Commencement; 00:27:10-00:27:13 Islamic art and architecture faculty member Geoffrey King leading student class tour at Sultan Hassan Mosque; Students at table in Creswell Library in School of Oriental Studies Building with Fustat ceramic and glass artifacts; 00:27:14-00:27:15 Students in Arabic Language Institute language laboratory; 00:27:16-00:27:20 Students playing football/soccer and tennis on campus; 00:27:21-00:27:32 Commencement; 00:27:33-00:27:51 Still images of AUC Campus with Main Palace Building and Ewart Hall Building, students on campus lawn, with AUC mailing addresses and list of AUC Trustees; 00:27:52-00:27:58 Spinx and Giza Pyramids with producer credits; 00:27:59-00:28:04 Nile river mosque domes and minarets sunset view with acknowledgments;

9. AUC Promotional film “The Best of Both Worlds”
“1st Trial Print- short vers. 1/12/82 Winters Productions” on Canister

الوصف:

AUC Promotional Film, in color with sound, sent to universities and potential donors abroad, featuring university administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni, campus buildings and facilities, and programs and projects. Also depicts Cairo and historic monuments and tourist sites. 00:00:00-00:00:07 Ramses Square with Railway Station 00:00:08-00:00:10 Tahrir Square 00:00:11-00:00:17 AUC Main Palace Building; 00:00:18-00:00:25 Students at table in Creswell Library in School of Oriental Studies Building, Film Title “The Best of Both Worlds”; 00:00:26-00:01:00 President Richard F. Pedersen walking on campus addressing camera, with Main Palace Building in background; 00:01:01-00:01:08 Students entering Ewart Hall Building, 00:01:09-00:01:13 Main Palace Building main inside staircase; 00:01:14-00:01:24 Ancient Egyptian tomb interior; Sultan Hassan Mosque exterior; moulid scene with musicans; felucca boat on Nile River with mosque in background; 00:01:25-00:01:44 Science Building and students on lawn in front; 00:01:45-00:01:53 African or African-American student and other students in language classroom; 00:01:54-00:02:01 Students studying on campus between the courts; 00:02:00-00:02:08 Faculty members Farkhonda Hassan and Tim Sullivan on campus; 00:02:09-00:02:12 Students making payments, possibly at Registration; 00:02:13-00:02:16 Still image of President Anwar Sadat 00:02:17-00:02:22 Faculty member Farkhonda Hassan in science classroom; 00:02:23-00:02:29 AUC Bookstore interior in Hill House with AUC Press books; 00:02:30-00:02:49 English language classroom in Main Building with faculty member and students; 00:02:50-00:03:01 Business book cover; 00:03:02-00:03:08 Students in engineering laboratory; 00:03:09-00:03:46 Faculty member Farkhonda Hassan in science classroom providing voiceover; 00:03:47-00:04:08 Students in engineering and science laboratories, with faculty members Fadel Assabghy and Farkhonda Hasan; 00:04:09-00:04:33 Students in science laboratory with faculty member Fadel Assabghy; 00:04:34-00:04:48 Social Research Center project trainee speaking with residents in village, with children; 00:04:49-00:05:00 Solar energy panels at Basaisa village project; 00:05:01-00:05:12 Desert Development Center agricultural fields; 00:05:13-00:05:58 Division of Public Service adult/continuing education English language classrooms with students and faculty members; CACE computer and secretarial skills typing classroomns with students; 00:05:59-00:06:21 Arabic Language Institute language laboratory; 00:06:22-00:07:52 Management Studies classroom with businessmen students and faculty member Amr Mortagy; student at computer; small seminar; brochure and publication covers; businessman student discussing executive education in his office; 00:07:53-00:08:01 View of Citadel and Cairo neighborhoods; 00:08:00-00:08:28 AUC alumna bank teller at counter with customers; office with workers; 00:08:29-00:09:44 Al Akhbar al Youm newspaper offices, printshop, and staff including alumnus Editor Mustafa Amin; 00:09:45-00:09:48 AUC Campus view with Main Palace Building; 00:09:49-00:09:55 Basaisa Village project farmers with solar panels and irrigation system; 00:09:56-00:10:00 AUC Commencement in Ewart Hall with faculty, administrators, and students; listing of corporate funding donors to AUC; 00:10:10-00:10:15 Students in Egyptology classroom; listing of corporate funding donors to AUC; 00:10:16-00:10:24 Students in science laboratories; 00:10:25-00:10:27 Commencement; 00:10:28-00:10:30 Faculty leading tour at Sultan Hassan Mosque; 00:10:31-00:10:31 Faculty holding ancient or medieval glass bottle; 00:10:32-00:10:33 Students in language audio visual laboratory; 00:10:34-00:10:39 Students playing football/soccer and tennis on campus; 00:10:40-00:11:02 Commencement, closing credits

10. AUC Scenes and Cairo Scenes for AUC Promotional Film
"Cairo Scenes II (“Markets in Egypt”)” on Canister

الوصف:

Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting administrators and faculty and students on campus including a Commencement procession, classrooms and science laboratories, athletics, and buildings and facilities like Ewart Hall auditorium. Also shown are the Nile River and central Cairo, visits to tourist sites like the Sphinx and Giza Pyramids and mosques and other Islamic monuments. 00:00:00-00:00:23 Sphinx and Giza pyramids, tourists on camels; 00:00:24-00:00:37 Nile river with felucca; 00:00:38-00:00:57 View from Gezira Island of First Kasr El Nil Bridge and buildings across the Nile river including old Semiramis hotel and Garden City shoreline; 00:00:58-00:01:06 View facing north of southeast bank of Gezira Island with houseboats, first Kasr El Nil bridge, and buildings of downtown Cairo in distance; 00:01:07-00:01:46 Captioned "CAIRO Where a Great American Character-Making Institution Comes in Contact With the Life of the East." Birds-eye views of Cairo Cities of the Dead cemeteries and monuments; 00:01:47-00:01:55 Villas in farmland near Nile river; 00:01:56-00:02:03 American tourists on rooftop viewing neighborhood near Bab Zuwayla gate; 00:02:04 Mosque of Mohamed Ali at Citadel, Mamluk or Ottoman era palaces and buildings with mashribayya windows, Bab Zuwayla gate minarets; 00:00:00-00:03:05 Mosque attendant providing slippers to cover shoes of tourists; 00:03:05-00:03:21 "Dr. Howell, the American Minister." Standing with one European or American and two Egyptian men; 00:03:22-00:04:04 "In this picturesque country with so much in its past, and perhaps still more in its future, this important work of character building is going on." "Main College Building - Formerly a Pasha's Palace." Still images of campus and Main Palace Building from Kasr El Aini Street, Side of Main Palace Building viewed from north with athletic field; 00:04:05-00:04:36 "The 'Garden' - Now an Athletic Field." Views of campus with surrounding streets and buildings in background, with side-views of Main Palace Building, outbuildings, and gardeners; 00:04:37-00:06:19 Student athletic events including gymnastics, track races, bicycle riding tug-of-war, with spectators and band performance; 00:06:20-00:06:43 "Ewart Memorial Hall - the New College Auditorium"; 00:06:44-00:06:58 "Dr. R.S. McClenahan, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences."; 00:06:58-00:08:12 "Upper Classmen at work in the science department." Faculty member teaching laboratory class, students performing chemistry experiment in laboratory; 00:08:13-00:08:21 "A Lecture." Students seated in classroom; 00:08:22-00:08:36 "Another University department - The School of Oriental Studies." Still image of library with faculty and students; 00:08:37-00:09:30 "Leaving the Assembly Hall after daily chapel exercises. Dr. Watson President of the University and Dr. McClenahan followed by the teaching staff and students." Administrators include Wendell Cleland, Amir Boctor, others; 00:09:31-00:10:17 "Student Groups" Students on campus with Kasr El Aini Street in background in some scenes, with faculty, staff at outbuilding, and Asian student; 00:10:27-00:10:43 "Commencement Day." President Watson and Dean McClenahan and faculty and staff in procession from side entrance to Main Palace Building; 00:10:43-00:11:10 American flag being raised over Main Palace Building

11. AUC Scenes and Cairo Scenes for AUC Promotional Film
“Cairo Scenes I; Misc – Discards” on Canister

الوصف:

Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting administrators and faculty and students on campus including a Commencement procession, as well as Ewart Hall auditorium, athletics, dining facilities, and faculty and staff outings. Also shown are Cairo street scenes and mosques and Egyptian Muslim religious practices. 00:00:00-00:00:40 Sultan Hassan Mosque and Refai Mosque exteriors (1920s); 00:00:41-00:00:51 Citadel viewed from square below (1920s); 00:00:52-00:01:13 Captioned "On entering a Mosque the Moslem removes his shoes while a Christian is asked to put sandals over his." (1920s) 00:01:14-00:01:41 "Here Resides the Spirit of a Moslem Saint - The Tying of Bits of Clothing of the Sick to this Gate is Supposed to Effect a Cure." Bab Zuwayla gate street scene (1920s); 00:01:42-00:01:55 Office, possibly an Egyptian government ministry with Egyptian academics including possibly Taha Hussein and AUC administrator-faculty member Amir Boctor (1930s-1940s); 00:01:56-00:02:06 AUC Commencement with administrators and faculty leading procession from north side of Main Palace building; 00:02:07-00:02:18 Students on campus athletic field doing calisthenic exercises; 00:02:19-00:02:46 Ewart Hall auditorium with seated students and empty (1930s-1940s); 00:02:47-00:03:48 Young American faculty members at dining table eating lunch or dinner after saying grace prayer (1930s-1940s); 00:03:49-00:04:08 Ewart Hall auditorium interior and building exterior (1930s-1940s); 00:04:09-00:06:01 Cafeteria with staff preparing food and students in line selecting food items (1930s-1940s); 00:06:02-00:06:12 American faculty members with wives in garden of home, possibly in Maadi (1930s-1940s); 00:06:13-00:06:23 Egyptian faculty member and language teacher-sheikhs on campus (1930s-1940s); 00:06:23-00:07:48 American faculty members or language students on tourist outing wearing Arab keffiyeh head scarves, including woman with rifle and local Egyptian guides and village resident adults and children; 00:07:49-00:08:13 Young American faculty members sitting down to dining table

12. CBS News Report on AUC after 1967 War
“Original AUC Short” on Canister

الوصف:

CBS News Report by Correspondent Bob Allison about situation at AUC during the semester following the 1967 War. 00:00:00-00:00:17 Test patterns; 00:00:18-00:00:31 CBS News Correspondent Bob Allison opening from top of Nile Hilton Hotel overlooking Tahrir Square; 00:00:32-00:00:34 Female and male students on AUC Campus in front of Main Palace Building; 00:00:35-00:00:41 Students on campus with Science Building in background; Science Building and Main Palace Building view; 00:00:42-00:01:11 Female and male students in classroom with political science faculty member; 00:01:12-00:01:21 Female and male students in chemistry laboratory; 00:01:22-00:01:25 Students in audio-visual language laboratory; 00:01:26-00:01:38 Students in physics laboratory; 00:01:39-00:02:11 President Thomas Bartlett outside on campus speaking to interviewer; 00:02:12-00:02:17 Students on campus in courtyard (later “fountain court”) behind Oriental Hall, Ewart Hall, and Main Building; 00:02:18-00:02:26 Students exiting door of Main Palace Building; 00:02:27-00:02:31 Students sitting in chairs on campus; 00:02:32-00:02:41 Students playing volleyball and tennis on courts with Science Building in background; 00:02:42-00:02:52 Students on campus between the courts; 00:02:53-00:03:18 Blank, test patterns.