id: Unidentified Film No. 003
director: Unknown
year: 1915?
country: Unknown
alternative titles: Alexandrien-Kairo, Ägypten

Short synopsis: Traditional and modern quarters of Cairo.

View of the harbour. A Japanese ship (Fushimi Maru). Rooftops. Views of a railway station (?), mosque, battlement. In the old Cairo: a clerk [frame scan 1], amongst others with a veiled woman (translations, public writing). Preparations for the Passover festival, 'The Festival of the Unleavened Bread': Women baking Matza (unleavened bread) [frame scan 3]. A swarm of people (view from above). In the modern Cairo: A flock of sheep on the road [frame scan 4]. Trams, cars, a funeral (?), camels. Sandbags are filled. A powerful, prestigious building. End title. Opening credits, title and intertitle: Deutsche Kinemathek e.V. Berlin zeigt: / Ägypten / Alexandrien / Das alte Kairo / Vorbereitungen zum Fest der ungesäuerten Brote [frame scan 2] / Das junge Kairo.

Length: 108m
Format: 35mm, 1:1.33
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent
Notes: 'Kodak' edgecode (title only; otherwise 4 and 2 round dots printed on either side of the film edges)

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Unfortunately there is presently no entry on "Oldtidens Ægypten" in the Danish Film Institute's Nationalfilmographien.

Could be the Pathé production 'Alexandrien' that was approved by the censor 'Hamburger Lehrerzensur' (No. 3778) on 13. Sept 1913.

Another suggestion might be an earlier film, Oldtidens Ægypten (1909) made by Ludwig Lippert for Nordisk. German title of that, however, was Das Ägypten der Vorzeit. Lippert made several films in Egypt between 1907-10.