AUC Campus and Cairo Scenes
“AUC Color Original” on Canister
- Holding institution:
- American University in Cairo
- Data provider:
- American University in Cairo
- Title:
- AUC Campus and Cairo Scenes
“AUC Color Original” on Canister - Date:
- Late 1930s to early 1940s
1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945 - Description:
- 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
- Type:
- Moving images
- Type (Narrower):
- Historical Videos
- Type (Broader):
- Video
- Subject:
- American University in Cairo -- History
Cairo (Egypt)
Egypt
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
Mosque of Sultan Hasan
Mosques--Egypt--Cairo - Coverage:
- Cairo; Egypt; New York City
- Rights:
- 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.
- Identifier:
- http://cdm15795.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15795coll23/id/0
- Format:
- video/mp4