# 1960s SOVIET FILM EGYPT OUR ARAB ALLY NASSER ERA Part 1 of 2 SUEZ CANAL & CAIRO 54254

Made in the 1960s when Egypt grew close to the Soviet Union as an ally, this documentary film starts with images of the pyramids at Giza and scenes of ancient Egypt. At 1:40 , ships are seen in the Suez Canal along with imperialist oil tankers. At 2:00 , the Suez Crisis is seen with its aftermath -- the canal closed to all traffic. At 2:30 , primitive methods of farming are shown, along with pastoral images of the Nile River, some of the wildlife along its banks, and the farmland that benefits from its annual flooding. At 4:13 a waterwheel is shown. At 6;25, a hydroelectric dam is seen, one of several completed through the Soviet alliance. Most likely this is Aswan High Dam. Celebrations of its completion are shown and images of rushing water providing the lifeblood for agriculture at 7:50 , as it enters a canal. At 8:16 , modern farming equipment is shown along with a modern agricultural plant. End of Part 1. The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream. Based on the success of the Low Dam, then at its maximum utilization, construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the government following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952; with its ability to better control flooding, provide increased water storage for irrigation, and generate hydroelectricity the dam was…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/54254RussianFillmEgyptionCity)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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