Mediterranean Odyssey
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.13
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 (80 minutes, color silent; 2,862 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980
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 a cruise in the Mediterranean. Locales shown include Venice, Naples, Pompeii and Capri, Italy; the Bay of Kotor, Yugoslavia; Mykonos, Athens, Santorini and Rhodes, Greece; Istanbul, Turkey; Jerusalem, Israel; and Cairo, Giza and Memphis, Egypt. Archaeological and other sites include the Blue Grotto of Capri; the Arcopolis, Parthenon and Oracle of Delphi in Greece; the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and Grand Bazaar of Istanbul; and the pyramid of Cheops, Saqqara, the temples of Luxor, Karnak and the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Also shown are Italian folk dances, camel rides, "whirling dervishes," belly dancers and daily life aboard a luxury cruise ship. Film is a remake of earlier film "Magic of the Mediterranean" (1962) and uses much of the same footage.

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

Legacy keywords: Tourism ; Cruise ships ; Archeology sites ; Historic sites ; Dance ; Dancing belly dancing Italian folkdancing Mediterranean ; Ship cruise Mediterranean ; Archaeological ruins acropolis parthenon oracle of delphi Greece ; Archaeological ruins pyramid of Cheops Saqqara temples of Luxor Luxor Valley of the Kings Egypt ; Religious buildings Blue Mosque Hagia Sophia Istanbul, Turkey ; Markets Grand Bazaar Istanbul, Turkey