“Archives” from the golden age of Egyptian cinema attract visitors to the forum

2023-09-29 22:08:37

The exhibition of cinematic paintings from the Golden Age, which was held in a main corner during the Arab Media Forum, received a remarkable turnout from guests and visitors, and the majority of the “films” that were reviewed in the corner contributed to bringing back to the memory what was lost and lost on a long journey, which was and still is an eyewitness to the vanguard. The seventh Arab art.

The corner shed light on the period that Egypt witnessed in the period between the fifties and the eighties of prosperity in the production of cinematic films, as Muhammad Al-Bibi was a witness to this golden period of Egyptian cinema after he entered the world of Arab cinema in 1953, where he began selling cinema tickets and helping in… He promoted films in one of the cinemas in Beirut and then rose through the ranks to become general manager of the Itani Film Company, which managed the largest network of cinemas in Beirut during that era.

Due to the lack of technology necessary to produce and design large format movie posters in the Middle East during that period, artists were used to draw posters promoting these films, as they would watch the movie and then return to their studios to draw and print these posters.

The collection of Bibi family posters is a valuable treasure as it takes the audience on a nostalgic journey to a golden cinematic era in Egypt.

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