Film Number |
10301 |
Title |
[CAIRO ZOO, SAQQARA & PYRAMIDS] |
Producer |
Douglas Riding |
Date |
1932/3 |
Gauge |
16mm |
Colour |
b&w |
Sound |
silent |
Running Time |
15 mins 0 secs |
Description |
Various animals and birds in Cairo Zoo including storks, pelicans, seals, peacocks and a hippopotomus. Streetscenes featuring a royal coach drive past with mounted policemen and cavalry in attendance A visit to the Seqqara pyramid with a camel train and donkey rides. Horse racing at the Cairo track then a game of lawn green bowls. Climbing a Pyramid then visiting Giza with the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx and observing the excavations in the Valley of the Kings. |
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