Thebes

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

476

Date Released

9 Feb 1964

Date recorded

8 Apr 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

684

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thebes

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The Pic’s Magic Carpet whisks you away from Cleopatra’s Needle in London’s wintry slush to just such another obelisk standing in Egypt’s sun. Thebes, the hundred-gated city of the Pharaohs was as big as Birmingham. And, today, they are digging it out of the rubble and dust that has preserved temples and monuments, tombs and jewels. Luxor, the sun-god’s temple, Karnak, the most gigantic structure ever built in the whole history of the human race. The Pic’s vivid camera-work brings Thebes to throbbing life, then ranges in the western desert where Bedouins dance their horses against a background of the pyramids, and floats you down that river of liquid history, the Nile.

Keywords

History and archaeology; Scenery and travel

Locations

Egypt

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Length of story (in feet)

646

Story extras:

Film clip

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