This is an unimpressive, brief, almost fleeting look at Egypt in 1951, photographed in grainy color and making the footage look a lot older than it is.
As for Egypt speaking, all we get are a couple of people at an outdoor cafe briefly express good will toward all Democratic citizens of foreign countries; next we hear the band of The University of Alexandria playing some military march; another brief look at a soccer game being played at King Farouk's University; young woman able to practice law in the Land of the Pharaohs; we're shown a modern hospital where there are "many public nurses"; and then a slum-like area of Old Egypt where "the past clings to the present in Old Egypt". A final scene has a band playing British music as homage to their former rulers and even a medley of Irish tunes. I can't see making a political statement out of all this as the other commentator has chosen to do.
A very rushed looking effort that barely has time to make whatever point it was making about a more modern looking Egypt.
As for Egypt speaking, all we get are a couple of people at an outdoor cafe briefly express good will toward all Democratic citizens of foreign countries; next we hear the band of The University of Alexandria playing some military march; another brief look at a soccer game being played at King Farouk's University; young woman able to practice law in the Land of the Pharaohs; we're shown a modern hospital where there are "many public nurses"; and then a slum-like area of Old Egypt where "the past clings to the present in Old Egypt". A final scene has a band playing British music as homage to their former rulers and even a medley of Irish tunes. I can't see making a political statement out of all this as the other commentator has chosen to do.
A very rushed looking effort that barely has time to make whatever point it was making about a more modern looking Egypt.