This is a 1940’s era, black and white movie. It is presented by – Dudley Pictures Corporation, called This World of Ours. It is about Egypt. Photographed by Edwin E. Olsen, Edited by William Faris and Produced by Carl Dudley. The movie opens with a TWA plane flying over Egypt. A camel caravan is shown at 00:4. Egyptian men bowing to Mecca, 00:49. Center of Cairo, 1:15. Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, 1:25. Waiter’s serving guests in Shepheard’s Hotel, 1:33. Egyptian Minarets, 1:40. Heliopolis, 1:52. Exotic Egyptian mosques with huge minarets, 2:00. The bazaar district of Cairo, 2:12. Egyptian Artisans work on their wares, 2:20. Egyptian Man smokes on a water pipe – a hookah, 2:49. The Suez Canal, 2:53. Trains traverse the Egyptian countryside, 3:23. Karnak and the Temple of Karnak, the Avenue of the Sphinxes, 3:35. Amon, God of Light, 3:39. Sculptures that are 80 to 90 feet high at Karnak, 4:08. Inscribed scenes into the temples of the ancient pharaohs, 4:19. Translated hieroglyphics, 4:24. Along the Nile banks, the temple of Luxor, 4:36. The temple of Luxor, 5:11. The Valley of the Kings, 5:27. Archeologist Lord Carnarvon, 5:36. The tomb of King Tut, 5:44. Typical villagers in Egypt, 5:57. The Nile River, 6:19. The Aswan Dam, 6:30. Irrigation in Egypt, 6:40. Alexandria, summer capital of Egypt, 6:50. Alexandria Hotels, 7:19. Egyptian monuments, 7:28. Alexandria’s harbor, 7:39. Alexandria’s white resort beaches, 7:53. The Great Pyramid of Cheops and the mighty Sphinx, 8:25. Shiny alabaster covering of the pyramids, 8:43. Noble tombs of the great pyramids, 9:12. Hieroglyphics on the tombs, 9:25. Investigation of the angles of the Great Pyramids, 10:00. Man climbs pyramids for tourists, 10:17. Egyptian cattle and desert trees, 11:41.

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