PERSONAL RECORD. LAUGESEN, CAPTAIN NORMAN. MOSQUES OF CAIRO

Rights Information
Year
1945
Reference
F60828
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1945
Reference
F60828
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:13:50
Credits
Photography: Norman Laugesen

Filmed by Captain Norman Laugesen (Divisional Signals) while serving with the 2nd NZ Division in the North African campaign during the Second World War.

Footage of mosques in Cairo and general scenes about the city.
Intertitle: “Sultan Hassan Mosque AD1356”. “The Tombs of the Mamelukes”. “We drive out to the Caliph City now used as a burial place”. “In the streets of the dead some poor people weave twine in this very primitive way”
Street scenes.