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.
This compilation video was created from scenes depicting AUC and its student, faculty, and campus in the AUC Historic Films collection. The video was created by RBSCL staff and displayed at Community Day in 2015
Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting Cairo street scenes, commerce and trades, local leisure activities, and rural life and agricultural activities.
00:00:00-00:00:49 Captioned "Streets of Cairo." City gate, streets with human and animal-drawn carts, pedestrians, vendors; 00:00:50-00:01:01 "A Weaver at work."; 00:01:02-00:01:12 "Ironing - Egyptian Style." Shopkeeper pressing cloth using foot-iron; 00:01:12-00:01:12-00:01:25 "A Barber in Action." Shaving a man's head outdoors; 00:01:26-00:01:47 Snake charmer on street; 00:01:48-00:01:58 Men drumming outside possibly at moulid; 00:01:59-00:02:10 Street scenes with pedestrians and automobile; 00:02:11-00:02:18 Shopkeeper weighing merchandise on scale for female customer; 00:02:19-00:02:41 Street scenes with pedestrians, some carrying merchandise on heads; 00:02:42-00:03:12 Men playing dominoes and smoking shisha in ahwa cafe and street views; 00:03:13-00:04:12 "Scenes along the irrigation canals in the Date Forests of Marg, near Cairo," "An Egyptian family goes visiting." Men and children riding donkeys and camels, family on donkey cart; 00:04:13-00:04:47 "Irrigation in the Nile Delta is done by the Archimedes Screw." Farmers operating device at canal; 00:04:48-00:05:27 "Irrigating with a Shadoof" Farmers lifting water from canal to field; 00:05:27-00:06:11 Cow-driven sakia water wheel with children nearby; 00:06:11-00:06:50 "A primitive plow." Farmer with plow driven by two cows as truck passes in background; 00:06:51-00:07:07 "Sheep in the forests of Marg, near Cairo"
Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, showing animals at the Giza zoo.
00:00:00-00:00:20 Captioned "A young Nubian Lion”’; 00:00:21-01:48: “The Hippo shows his tonsils”; zookeeper feeding hippopotamus, with enclosure bars and visitors in background; 00:01:49-00:02:15 “The Zebras in their latest stripes”; 00:02:16-00:02:34 “The Spoonbill belongs to the Crane family”; 00:02:35-00:03:13 “The Porcupines”; 00:03:14-00:04:07 “White Peacocks” with enclosure bars and visitors in background; 00:04:08-00:04:51 “Flamingos” in lake; 00:04:52-00:05:47 “Storks Egypt is a natural breeding ground for millions of them”
Film, black and white without sound, of the 1971 Miss AUC Competition and Celebration. Depicts students on campus campaigning with signs, banners, and chanting for contestants Salms Morsi, Nadia Habasy, Maria Lim and others, procession of contestants and other competition activities in Ewart Hall, and the awards ceremony with the crowning of and presentation of cup to Miss AUC Salwa Morsi. Also features footage of the awards dinner, band of musician, and students dancing. President Christopher Thoron (at 00:02:30-00:02:46) and wife Luz Thoron (at 00:01:44-00:01:56 and 00:03:19-00:03:26) and Dean of Students Frank Blanning (at 00:03:17) are shown. Students of various ethnic backgrounds, including Asian, are depicted, hair and clothing fashions of the era are shown, and there are scenes of students smoking.