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)
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,
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 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, 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 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"