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Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The ...
Coastal Scenes, location unknown.
Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of ...
The control of hookworm disease in Kenya.
Film illustrating the method of house construction.
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
Amateur film of a safari in Kenya undertaken by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor). Dated 1929 and ...
Animation. Silhouette, white on black.
"Lyman H. Howe presents Hunting Lions in Africa" (3). A man on the back of an ...
Profile of the work and history of the Universties' Mission to Central Africa in their fight against the "evils of ...
An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to ...
DRAMA. A love story of two generations.
R.1 Dr. Martin Sumner, a Victorian country doctor and early motor enthusiast, meets Dora ...
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via ...
The first two reels of a record of the Italian conquest of British Somaliland.
Maps illustrate the strategic importance ...
Documentary looking at the work done at the Guild Hospital to help orphans, lepers and the work done in `the ...
ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.
"Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe ...
The British possessions in eastern Africa.
A lion and lioness in Africa. Film supplied by MGM News (90ft).
General picture of the country showing its economic, political and social progress.
George Scott examines Rhodesia - stresses the little relative impact of the white community, possible for Africans to compete with ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...
I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet ...
I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in ...
I. "THE EMIR OF KATSINA COMES TO INDIA TO SEE HIS WEST AFRICAN TROOPS" The Muslim Emir of Katsina (on ...
Ceremonies surrounding the installation of the Queen Mother of Enyeresi.
No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the ...
Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.
A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and ...
Recruitment film to encourage nurses and doctors to go to Rhodesia. Shows the terrain, work in the hospitals and public ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...
The building up of the cocoa-processing industry in the Gold Coast.
A farmer in the Gold Coast (Ghana) learns how to increase his yield of cocoa through the use of insecticides.
Ceremony of the handing over of Somaliland which is to be administered once again by Italy under United Nations trusteeship. ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country ...
The Central African Scouts Jamboree, April 1959.
DOCUMENTARY. A personal report on the year 1965 by James Cameron.
Main title over stills of James Cameron and events of ...
Jericho Jackson is on run from army after being court-martialled. He goes to African desert, marries and becomes head of ...
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.
Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.
Shows the various businesses Joe Hlahla an African landowner does.
Life in Rhodesia seems ideal to the Sloans but the arrival of an African fugitive causes a crisis.
The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard ...
Amatuer scenes on the journey from Nairobi to Britain via Mombassa, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Madeira taken by ...
Biographical Adventure: The film reconstructs the life of Cherry Kearton. renowned naturalist, traveller and pioneer of cinematography, with excerpts from ...
Jungle Jim and Dr. Parker arrange a safari to get a valuable drug to cure polio. The trip is sabotaged ...