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The Ancient World: Egypt (1951)
Directed by Ray Garner
Documentary · 1h 06m
This film traces the story of Egypt from the prehistoric period to the time of the Ptolemies, focusing on the Nile, temples, pyramids and the Sphinx. Here, Garner showcases a single shot of ruins as light and dark as clouds pass, a signature of his. The filmmaker waxes poetic in this statement: "For Egypt is a monument, not to the conqueror or statesman, but to the artist, the architect, the painter, the sculptor, whose works will remain in the minds of men, when pomp and ceremony are but whispering echoes in the corridors of time."
Crew
- Director
- Ray Garner
Details
- Release date
- 1951-06-15
- Runtime
- 1h 06m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English