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Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie from the Egypt Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO) for the following story, which charts the journey of a documentary film crew to the source of the Nile in 1964: "In June 1964, I and my four-man Egyptian film crew set out from Cairo to capture on film the very last Nile flood that would come to Egypt. From the moment the flood began in Ethiopia, we followed its progress for 3200 kilometers (2000 mi). This had never been done before, and the CinemaScope feature documentary we produced, 'Fountains of the Sun,' became the only filmed record ever made of this momentous event. We left an Egypt blistering in the summer sun, every city, town and village anxiously awaiting the last flood of all. In the sultry heat of Aswan, thousands of sweating workers toiled day and night, hurrying to complete six giant tunnels in time to carry the coming flood safely past the unfinished Aswan High Dam."
Originally in pages 24-33 of the May/June 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie from the Egypt Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO) for the following story, which charts the journey of a documentary film crew to the source of the Nile in 1964: "In June 1964, I and my four-man Egyptian film crew set out from Cairo to capture on film the very last Nile flood that would come to Egypt. From the moment the flood began in Ethiopia, we followed its progress for 3200 kilometers (2000 mi). This had never been done before, and the CinemaScope feature documentary we produced, 'Fountains of the Sun,' became the only filmed record ever made of this momentous event. We left an Egypt blistering in the summer sun, every city, town and village anxiously awaiting the last flood of all. In the sultry heat of Aswan, thousands of sweating workers toiled day and night, hurrying to complete six giant tunnels in time to carry the coming flood safely past the unfinished Aswan High Dam."
Originally in pages 24-33 of the May/June 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
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