https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f7ae4f88-c13b-46ac-9bc7-859f67aea9c4 Dating to the 1930s, "An Egyptian Adventure" is a comedy travelogue that presents a U.S. Navy sailor's view of Egypt which (as a title card states) was "once the happy homeland of the Pharoahs". The film begins with images of statues, probably of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. At :50 some of the water works near the Nile River are seen, used to move water onto the fields. At 1:10 the Nile is seen followed at 1:21 by images of Cairo with its mosques and busy streets. At 1:35 a U.S. Navy ship is seen arriving in Cairo after a journey on the Canal. At 1:57 a steam locomotive is shown with a train arriving at Cairo, and the railway station is also shown. At 2:10 a motor car takes tourists through bustling streets. At 2:20, a donkey cart full of Muslim women is shown (the ladies apparently do not wish to be filmed judging from their gestures). At 2:41, a woman traverses the traffic lanes with a pot on her head. At 2:50 the Sphinx is seen and a camel ride is shown at 3:00 towards the Great Pyramid at Giza. At 3:50, sailors gaze from the heights of the Pyramid of Cheops. At 4:20, some "shady business" is shown with two sheiks having an argument over a cup of tea. (These men are counterfeiters of fake antiquities and sell them to foolish and gullible American sailors.) At 6:00, the pyramids are seen again with camels in front, and then a journey through the desert in search of "treasure". At 7:40 the "treasures" are uncovered including "diamond necklaces" and "Queen Hotlips" treasure. At 9:30 the men get back on their ship where they decide to hide their treasure in a gun. You can imagine what happens next. 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 and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0TTu0pA_4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:23:25 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/f7ae4f88-c13b-46ac-9bc7-859f67aea9c4 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.