INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT [Main]
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Year: 1918
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Runtime: 7 mins
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Description: The first boat, a steamer, tows two barges, followed by a Victoria Shipping Line steamer 'pushing' its barges. A small steamer, marked as S35, and two melon boats pass through a swing bridge. Two converted passenger steamers, SS Fostat and SS Serapis, carry sacks on deck. Finally some boats being towed by a small steamer.
Unedited film of boats on the River Nile carrying compressed horse fodder ('tiffin'), Egypt, 1918 (?).
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Victoria Shipping Line / ships, Egyptian civilian - inland: Fostat / ships, Egyptian civilian - inland: Serapis / supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc / 31/3(621) / Egypt & Nile (River)
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Production company: Topical Film Company
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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