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Near Nairobi, Kenya. Africans build a good permanent house using mainly materials which are available on the spot.
In a local ...
How a college education in Dar es-salaam is changing the lifestyle of Victor Kimeseru, a Masai tribesman from Tanganyika.
Aspects of the major social problems raised by the rapid industrialisation of Northern Rhodesia; work done by the missionaries.
African adventure with wild animals and Leopard Men.
Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...
At the Wankie National Park (later called the Hwange Game Reserve),in Rhodesia, Tourists' observation platforms. Water hole drilling. Eland, water ...
ACTUALITY. The construction of a railway bridge across a river in South Africa.
A gang of African labourers, with an overseer, ...
At home in Sierra Leone
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the ...
A visit to Sierra Leone where much of the world's diamond industry is centred. Processes of preparing diamonds for dispatch. ...
INDUSTRIAL/ETHNOLOGY. Film on the Nigerian cotton industry and how the natives use cotton themselves in the manufacture of clothing.
""BLACK COTTON" ...