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Shows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Three British cavalrymen ride from right to left across a flat landscape, with a group of cavalry ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
Angus Buchanan's expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. Includes Sir Hugh Clifford and the Executive Council ...
The sugar industry in Rhodesia, including:- 1960 Bulawayo trade show, the sugar pavillion and the visit by the Queen Mother, ...
The technique of abortion using the Karman Kurette. The film stresses the ease of the technique and also the lack ...
A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills ...
INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.
A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a ...
DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.
RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium ...
Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.
Travelogue, showing the buildings, people and wildlife of Nairobi.
Over shots of modern Nairobi, the commentator outlines the transformation of the ...
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...
A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives ...
Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.
The control of bilharzia and malaria in Rhodesia.
INTEREST. Some of the animals in Johannesburg Zoo.
Titles (69). General views of the zoo (95). Pelican (106). People looking at ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace ...
A summary of the activities of the United Africa Company, part of the sponsor's group. Import of raw material from ...
Sponsored film showing building and civil engineering schemes in southern Africa.
The film begins in Lusaka, then Rhodesia, and travels through ...
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working ...
Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made ...
A study in social transition, presenting the problem of a young village African who goes to work in the Rhodesian ...
Diet film for employers of African labour.