1950s EGYPTIAN FILM INDUSTRY CAIRO EGYPT SAMIA GAMAL STUDIO MISR FILM STUDIO 54614

Browse our products on Amazon: Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Dating to the early 1950s, probably 1951, and produced by the Hamilton Wright Organization for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this short film shows the nascent Egyptian film industry. At :50, Samia Gamal, an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress, is shown. At 1:15, a director standing next to a Mitchell 35mm movie camera gives her direction. At 1:36 Gamal moves in front of reflectors which light her path. The narrator mentions that the films being made in Egypt are made to certain standards of morality and feature clean content. At 2:01, inside the sound stage of the Studio Misr. This was a film studio established in Egypt in 1934 by the economist Talaat Harb. Owned and staffed by Egyptians, it was known as ’The Studio of Egypt’. For three de