About the film: Rive del Nilo
Cineteca di Bologna
Rive del Nilo
Banks of the Nile
Year: 1911
With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, black-haired women rock back and forth, bursting out laughing and showing the first signs of going into a state of trance. Never-before filmed gestures and faces of the people of the Nile succeed one another, uprooted to an unknown, magical world.
The Banks of the Nile is one of the first experiments of film in colour that uses the Kinemacolor process.
Director: Anonymous
Nationality: Italian
Length: 6' 1"
Genre: documentary
Sound: silent with soundtrack
Original elements: colour
Composer: Marc Perrone
Original language: English
Nationality: Italian
Length: 6' 1"
Genre: documentary
Sound: silent with soundtrack
Original elements: colour
Composer: Marc Perrone
Original language: English
