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.
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.”
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
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
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)