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Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving ...
Documentary. Tracing the road from French Equatorial Africa to Kenya.
Fort Lhani(?) French Equatorial Africa to British East Africa by road. ...
In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an ...
Standard tourist film about the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.
CARTOON. Trigger-happy big game hunter, Flip The Frog, is captured by cannibals. They attempt to cook him in a cauldron. ...
A look at modern life in several south African countries.
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. View of the village belonging to the Mashona tribe. Cattle and goats are herded through the village. Children play. ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...
An African woman is seen at work hoeing in the maize fields with her baby on her back, and an ...
Wildlife safari to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Portugese East Africa (Mozambique).
INTEREST. Two natives of Southern Rhodesia chop down a tree and make a dug-out canoe from a section of the ...
Natives of the Mashona tribe build a hut from wooden poles, grass and mud, and a family is then seen ...
Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the ...
INTEREST. The work of the craftsmen in the Kenyan textile industry and the West African silversmiths and jewellers.
INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.
An annual race meeting at Maseru, Basutoland.
Introduced as the 'annual native race meeting' at Maseru in Basutoland, the film opens ...
Tribal life in Kenya; local religions; educational, medical and other activities of the Methodist Church.
Images of Africa including taking car on a raft across a river, elephants, hippos and African women.
INTEREST. Shots of wild animals in East Africa. The water buck (15-122); birds flocking to a water hole (132-155); finches ...
Amateur film. `Once upon a time Africa was a land of Pagan enchantment': landscape; wildlife; village. `Civilisation': white man puts ...
Shows traditional methods of pottery making, basket weaving, the making of hunti ng weapons, boat building and ceremonial dances in ...
Footage of Nandi tribal dancing. Recruiting for the Kings African Rifles. The Turkana tribe preparing meals and dancing. WaTesio dancers, ...
Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.