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
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, 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
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 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.
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”