This episode of Andre de la Varre's travelogue series, THE SCREEN TRAVELER, starts out with the modrn sections of Cairo in 1936, the sections of the city erected in imitation of the West. You'll notice the street cars rolling along their tracks in almost every shot, and the two-wheeled carts. The street cars don't leave us until halfway through, when we are in the older sections of the city, where the sky can't be seen because the buildings close in above in Old Cairo, but the two-wheeled carts persist, and donkeys..... and it's eight minutes into this 11-minute movie before we see the camels.
De la Varre gives us the sense we're not just seeing the tourist sites, but we're seeing how the people live amidst the history.
De la Varre gives us the sense we're not just seeing the tourist sites, but we're seeing how the people live amidst the history.
