Synopsis
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…
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Details
- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Bosphorus Strait Turkey
- The Middle East
- Middle East
- Pan Arabism
- Baalbek Roman Ruins
- Long Wall
- Anwar Al
- Arabian Peninsula
- Dardanelles Strait
- Stock Footage
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