https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/3dff620f-6350-4504-a6e1-c70afb2db00e 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. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-JwKAvdSYA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:10:15 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/3dff620f-6350-4504-a6e1-c70afb2db00e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.