CAIRO TO CAPETOWN

Creator: united artists

Format: 16mm

Description: Cairo to Capetown, is a black and white, short film, regarding the ports U.S. Navy sailors could visit along the coast of Africa. This film was a United Artist Film. United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio founded in 1919. UA added sound to their films in the 1930’s. This film was probably made in that era. A Navy cruiser ship is shown at sea (0:21-0:26). Map of Africa (0:27-0:32) showing Alexandria, Egypt (0:33-0:36). Cairo’s Muhammad Ali Alabaster Mosque built in 1848 (0:42-0:49). Cairo streets wi

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ladies off on another adventure this criminal cruiser is trying through the seat on a 25,000 miles ship headed for Alexandria Egypt she has a lively crew aboard and blue jacket at the blue jacket takes shore leave and goes right to Cairo the mysterious City of mosques and minarets you these men a Wiseman or experienced turrets and they jumped aboard a camel headed for the Saints and the Pyrenees and just in case you don't know this is how it feels on the deck of a camel wow it's a good thing that sailors never get seasick history tells us with the strength of the lady so it's no wonder that the Blue Jackets Gilbert such a once-over All Hands are back aboard and the ship plows through that grand old desert that's separating Asia and Africa to Suez Canal this waterway makes a journey from you up to the Far East a matter of weeks where he forced to as it took months the next visit is a strange village in the Red Sea port sudan home of Rudyard Kipling 20 would and we find all the fuzzy-wuzzies the right on hand to create the United States Navy Barbara is the answers to british somaliland here wandering tribes of the desert come to see the Navy never before have these remote people seen America the Navy acts as an ambassador of goodwill and friendship showing our flag two nations of the world and here's a new way of coming ashore the Coulee chair that service and then to return the trail the boys laughing made it in on the mysteries of a grand ol American tax case yourself it back steaming through the Indian Ocean we come to Mombasa the entrance to darkest Africa so cause we need the Sun shines here all the time combat is what a big game hunters disembark to start into the jungle and leave it to the Navy it doesn't take them long to meet the jungle beasts Tom Ryan off the African coast is zanzibar the island of spices the British fleet is on hand to salute our ship and then jack goes ashore to meet its British confidence purple that's some of the native properties that demonstrated the latest and dance step the three wise men of Zanzibar come to extend a welcome to the tire about two days cruise out into the Indian Ocean and the ship reaches ha matado the Chiefs be portable French colony made famous by circus sideshow Barker's Madagascar but steady downpour doesn't dampen the spirit of the welcoming committee one bit and maybe you don't think the natives were glad to see the blue jacket he gave them an excuse for a holiday and how they like holidays music makes the boys imagine it back on Broadway and so the natives get a real treat maybe style the ship is now well into South African waters and head further back sensible seaboard of not found in one of the finest cities and average picturesque rickshaw boy all done up in fines and fellows like an African Tipton seems to like the idea of being tired in the movie at the tip of the continent is Cape Town the car for metropolis of South Africa the ties have been looking forward to this stop on the cruise from the beautiful harbour they hatin the shore to enjoy the many interesting types of this busy city the modest cottage for temple road the great British statesman lives and the handsome memorial erected by South Africans in his honour are shrines which are always seen by visitors to Cape Town rounding the case of now chases sparkling waters of the South Atlantic impressively drop anchor spent hella only iolite apollyon spent his last days in exile the simple tomb where his body was first laid away his marks I explained marble slab and the small villa in which Napoleon meditated on his tax boys has been preserved to prosperity the great African adventure now over the Cruz's family stop and it long day the sphere broken up with novel games of Navy invention and so loaded with rich experiences and with her personnel well-trained the closest teams on to rejoin the fleet in Glen water


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