Magic of the Mediterranean
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (82 minutes, color silent; 2,962 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel aound the Mediterranean. Locales shown include Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Amalfi, Ravello, Positano, and Capri, Italy; Athens, Corinth, Aegean Islands, Rhodes, Kos Island, Mykonos, and Santorin, Greece; and Cairo and Memphis, Egypt. Archeological sites include the Oracle of Delphi, Acropolis, and Parthenon in Greece and the pyramid of Cheops, the Sphinx, the step pyramid of Saqqara, the Great temple of Luxor, Colossi of Memnon, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen in the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Karnak, and the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Also shown are making cameos in Naples, Italy, handicrafts of Greece including embroidery, and the Egyptian museum and Khan-El-Kahili bazaar in Cairo.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Archeology sites ; Handicrafts ; Markets Egypt ; Museums Egypt