“ THE MIDDLE EAST “ 1959 EDUCATIONAL FILM EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, LEBANON, SYRIA, ISRAEL XD51764

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This color documentary film “The Middle East“ by the International Film Foundation dates to 1959. The film focuses on the region of the Middle East as a whole and looks closely at topics related to Pan Arabism, economic development, oil, and the intellectuals and revolutionaries of the emerging middle classes. Official description: A film showing the Middle East today with its background of religions, poverty and struggle with agriculture, mixed with the awakening middle class who have been educated to become the leaders of tomorrow. Main titles missing. Opening series of quotes by famous authors. Map of Middle East and illustration of Crusaders (0:11-2:03). Great Sphinx of Giza; Hieroglyphics engraved in stone (2:04). Perhaps Baalbek Roman Ruins (2:18). Hittite relief depicting a chariot, warriors, orthostat stone panel of Long Wall, Basalt, Karkamıs, (Kargamıs), Carchemish (Karkemish), 900 - 700 BC (2:37). Social protest movement perhaps streets of Iran (2:41). Pan Arabism (2:57). Perhaps Anwar Al-Sadat (3:08). Aerial view oil reserves, montage of oil refineries (3:13). Illustrated globe highlighting “gateways” to Arabian Peninsula: Dardanelles Strait and Bosphorus Strait Turkey; Caspian Sea and Hindu Kush Mountains off Afghanistan; Nile Valley Egypt; Red Sea and Persian Gulf (3:32). Muezzin recites “Adhan” standing on minaret of Ottoman-style mosque in Turkey; montage worshippers praying in mosques, on streets; mullahs sit in mosque with young students reciting Quran (4:45). Tapestry depicting Mecca, the Kaaba (5:50). Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem (5:57). Bedouin men guide pack of camels across desert; group of Bedouin men drink traditional coffee, tea in tents wearing thobe and keffiyeh (6:23). Importance of finding water, farming and agriculture, farmer uses ox-pulled wooden plow, cultivating grain (8:02). Locust swarm tree trunk (10:13). Egyptian peasant farmers, sharecroppers weigh bounty and wait for payout (10:24). Rural Egyptian Village (11:05). Women washing laundry wearing black abayas dot coastline of Nile River (11:18). Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan Cairo (11:48). Khan Al-Khalili Market: Various artisan crafts hang from stalls while vendors with juice, bread walk through crowded allies (11:52-14:00). Afternoon light hitting vendors walking carts on street, striking enlarged shadows stretch across road (14:00). Man paints large-scale movie poster advert on scaffolding for Warner Bros “Land of the Pharaohs” (14:10). Upper middle-class neighborhood of Cairo, residential apartment buildings; 1950s automobiles fill lot across street from cinema (14:18). Growing middle class: Men in suits, thobes sitting side-by-side at European-style curbside cafes (14:38). Universities across region: American University of Cairo, American University of Beirut, Robert College in Istanbul, Aleppo College in Syria (15:07). Teacher stands with abacus, clock board in front of young boys at village school in poor part of rural Iran (16:54). Young girls at government school line up in courtyard for medical check up; preventative treatment for trachoma (17:28). Lives of Palestinian children in refugee camps: UN-sponsored nurses administer vaccinations to women, children at field clinic in refugee camp; Young children line up with make-shift vessels to get food to eat (17:50). Soldiers of The Arab Legion stand guard on old walls of city of Jerusalem (19:11). Traffic sign indicating route to Ramallah, Nablus at Mandelbaum Gate; only legal passageway between Israel and Jordan (19:25). Creation of State of Israel: streets of perhaps Tel Aviv, dock hands unload cargo from freight ships, men work hard on construction site, others work on planting/ cultivating crops on kibbutz (19:57). View of Bosphorus (21:03). Map of Turkey (21:08). American military advisors meet with Turkish soldiers to discuss defense strategy against USSR (21:19). Large mosques and their minarets dot skyline, passenger ferry prepares for departure, people and buses pass over perhaps Galata Bridge in heart of Istanbul (21:34). Flag with portrait of Ataturk (21:48). American-funded road building and irrigation projects (22:31). Aerial view of Egypt; oil ship pulls into Suez Canal (22:52). Lower Aswan Dam, aerial view of dam (23:36). Inside iron frame of oil well, scenes across oil reserves (23:54). Closing words (24:43). 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