'Ancient World, The: Egypt' (1951) 66m, dir. Ray Garner. This film taces 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." To view Garner’s Egypt, Part II, visit http://archive.org/details/AncientWorldEgypt_Pt2 For more on Garner, visit http://www.afana.org/garner.htm


This movie is part of the collection: Academic Film Archive of North America

Director: Ray Garner
Producer: Ray Garner
Production Company: Ray Garner
Sponsor: Gay Mackintosh
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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