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Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ...
Scenes from the lives of people in an African native tribe. A woman gathers up an animal hide and walks ...
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train ...
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a ...
Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are ...
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient ...
INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river. ...
TRAVELOGUE. A Pathé colour film showing African natives throwing cartridges into a river and catching the stunned fish.
African tribal dancing.
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows ...
Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education ...
Amateur. A European family holidaying in Africa.
Beach hut on island. Boat out at sea. Africans dancing and drinking beer. European ...
Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander ...
ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the ...
The story of Alec Smith, son of the Rhodesia Prime Minister, as drop-out, former drug smuggler and addict and his ...
Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).
TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.
Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the ...
Story of 6,000 mile journey by road rail and air from Cape Town to Cairo.
ACTUALITY. Boer War: hauled by a long mule train a four-wheeled cart with three British soldiers seated at the rear ...
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Title and credits. The undeveloped ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
Good practice in animal husbandry illustrated through the daily life of a Kenyan cattle farmer. He milks cows, delivers milk ...
Explores the conflicting attitudes towards development in an 'under-developed ar ea' the Seychelles, and points out how economic advance can ...
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...
INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop ...
Roy Welensky is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, topics include the Commonwealth, racial policy, South Africa, possible constitutional change, imperial rule ...
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage ...
AMATEUR FILM. IAC leader. `En route at Khartoum': loading and boarding plane; Salisbury; street scenes; flower market; bowling green; `Astor' ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War wounded being taken onto a hospital ship.
A continuous line of sick and wounded British soldiers being carried ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
DRAMA. A group of settlers are attacked by Arabs and lions.
Three settlers are besieged by a group of hostile Arabs. ...
Main title (1 frame). Military camp with a pyramid in the background. Australian army horse-drawn wagons move to camera (35). ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar ...
Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" ...