Tour through Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s - Archive Film 1083344

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1083344 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ 1950s. Tour through the city of Alexandria, Egypt. aswan damHorse hoofs clopping down a road. Close up on Egyptian carriage driver's face. Horse drawn carriage moving down a brightly lit road. View from a balcony (likely shot from the Steigenberger Cecil Hotel) of an Egyptian strip; a plaza (believe to be Saad Zaghloul Square) with a large monument (possibly the Saad Zaghloul Pasha statue) in the foreground, buildings in the background, and a road and Mediterranian ocean to the left. Carriage, doused in shadows, moves through, with palm trees and a column in the background, before camera pans to the Al Qaed Ibrahim Mosque. Tip of the Al Qaed tower, with wooden scaffolds, and palm trees in the foreground. Distant view of the Abu al-Abbas Mosque, with roads and palm trees obscuring view. Top of the Abu Mosque. Over the shoulder view of carriage driver, moving down a dusty road towards Fort Qaitbay. The silhouettes of a man with a camera and a shorter man in a robe and fez move towards the entrance of the Citadel of Qaitbay, the fort framed by an archway. Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced