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Transition: Middle East

The Middle East was very late to the film game. Films did not start to be made in the Middle East until the late 1920s for the first time. This was well after the rest of the world had adopted film and moved to “talkies.” Up until this point the Middle East had and Middle Eastern actors and actresses were only used by Western film studios. Saudi Arabia did not allow films to be made in the country until the 1960s.