This one comes courtesy of Neil van der Linden, anthologist of Middle Eastern esoterica. It might explain why Coke became synonymous in many parts of the world with Madison Avenue imperialism.
How Mad Men sold Coke to Arabia (rare 1940s video)
February 20, 2013 by
Was that filmed during the Great Arabic Shortage Of Drinking Glasses, then?
Quaint, charming, and mass commerce at its most effective.
Shades of an Austrian Bierkeller begging to get going? . . .
These were the roaring (end) fourties or beginning fifties, probably in Egypt or Lebanon.
May I add these other clips, taken from famous films.
Late fifties or early sixties:
Samia Gamal in the movie A Glass and a Cigarette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egOaU1a5Hhw
Dalida in A Glass and a Cigarette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLmIZEax0SU
The Syrian Druze Asmahan in an Egyptian movie, in her last movie, 1944, before she died in a car accident, rumouredly set up by the British, or the Germans, or her family, or singer Umm Kulthumm, but perhaps due to the car or the road, or the driver, compare the rumours around Diana
Emta Hataraf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoLd3twZH9o
Asmahan Ahwa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QzH-jxGRk
Asmahan Mawal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFfauuwUUNg
Asmahan Layali Vienna Arabic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSPsuk2j5IM
The famous Abdelhalim Hafez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VITfBUL79bk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a7dP_5ZH6RY#!
Theme tune from the famous superdrugged, heavily satirical and innovative 1972 movie based on Naguib Mahfouz’ short novel, Chat on the Nile alias Men in a boat on the Nile. A group of intellectuals gathers in a boat floating on the Nile, smokes heavy Shisha with Hashish, and gives satirical comments on society. Because the characters were under influence, they and their creators were less susceptible to censorship. Moreover everybody knew Sadat was a heavy blower. The music composition was just as innovative.
Ali Ismail Theme from chat on the nile
Or what to think of the movie with Abdelhalim Hafez and Shadia, with a score including large sections of Wagner’s Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser, some very fine symphonic moviescore music of its own, and a grand dancing finale… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-_4rBxSfA