Morocco
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1995.11.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jones, R. Bryson
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content: R. Bryson Jones travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (21 minutes, black-and-white silent; 600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935
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: Incomplete edited film used by an amateur travel-lecturer documents travel in North Africa, particularly Egypt (in the surviving footage). Scenes include street life in Egyptian city including passersby in various dress, pack animals, water-sellers, a muezzin calling to worship, men worshipping at the same mosque, and large open air market. Also shown is a variety of street entertainment including musicians, a juggler, a storyteller, a magician, a mock duel with sticks, a boxing match and animal acts with snakes and a trained monkey. Only brief images of Egyptian pyramids and the Spinx in this surviving footage.