COLLECTION NAME:
Leroy H. Miller Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Leroy H. Miller collection
Title:
Sphinx, Memphis/Sunset - memories
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
silent films
Genre:
travelog (performed works genre)
Genre:
Amateur films
Date Issued:
1926/1936
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 film reel (12 min., 23 sec.)
Form:
16mm (photographic film size)
Form:
black-and-white film (film, material)
Abstract:
Title from film container. Collection of travel footage with intertitles offering description and commentary. Includes likely original black-and-white footage (ca. 1926) and tinted color footage likely acquired by Leroy H. Miller from another source (ca. 1928). Additional intertitles added ca. 1936. Reel includes scenes of many people riding and walking with camels; Egyptian guide climbing Great Pyramid with man and woman tourist, with landscape views from the top; images of the Sphinx from various angles, with intertitles offering poetic descriptions; and people walking through ruins of a temple in the desert; and exterior of Mena House Hotel, with people sitting at tables outside. Reel ends with brief images of statues and pyramid in Memphis.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Note:
As original, historical material, some of the language used and opinions shared in these films - especially regarding topics of race, gender, class religion, and ability - do not reflect the current preferred terminology of individuals of marginalized identities, or the values and norms of the CU Boulder Archives.
Note:
00:00:00 Up the Great Pyramid. 00:01:52 The Top. 00:05:03 In the ancient days when Greece was young and Rome unborn - the Sphinx had been crouching beside the Pyramids for more than thirty centuries --- 00:05:20 Behold a mysterious shadow on the sands of Time - like a tremendous interrogation-point --- 00:05:58 Symbol of ancient mysteries unsolved! - No man knows who thou art, - nor when, nor why created --- 00:06:09 Thy claws deep-buried in the sands of Time - thy head emerging from the sea of centuries --- 00:06:25 The wise and the witless of each epoch have come to gaze upon thee. 00:06:57 From the beginning thy back has been turned to the West and all its changeful ways -- 00:07:28 Beside thee, deeply overwhelmed, a super-ancient temple sleeps beneath the surface of the sandy sea --- 00:09:34 A few of us went to Memphis, at one time, the greatest city in Egypt. 00:09:45 Some of the great things we saw here were: 00:09:54 The colossal statues of Ramses II, a sphinx weighing 80 tons, and the great Step Pyramid dating back to 4240 B.C. 00:10:58 What we saw on our return to Cairo. 00:12:23 End of recording.
Subject Topic:
Great Pyramid (Egypt)
Subject Topic:
Camels
Subject Topic:
Great Sphinx (Egypt)
Subject Topic:
Deserts
Subject Geographic:
Egypt--Cairo
Subject Geographic:
Egypt--Memphis (Extinct city)
Identifier:
U183051010676_narv_millerLeroy_5-10_sphinxMemphisSunsetMemories_a.mp4
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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