Dramatised advertising film for Lux toilet soap intended for African audiences.

The film opens with an African man sitting and playing ...

Rhodes Centenary exhibition. Royal family. Pavilions, exhibits. Grave of Leander Starr Jameson.

Production / Donor Details: Films Shot by Leslie Matisonn

The background to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and steps being taken to suppress it.

The film opens ...

TRAVELOGUE. Scenes around the island of Mauritius.

Credits. Titles (37). MLS island of Réunion viewed from a moving boat (44). MCU ...

Amateur film. Mauritius - local scenery and residents.

Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for ...

The operation of a mechanical workshop (PWD IJORA) which repairs government machinery and property in Nigeria.

The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.

In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...

Story of adventures of group of white people in building railway from Mombasa to Uganda in 1880.

Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...

Pottery in Sierra Leone.

Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of ...

WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.

No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, ...

The Alaska copper refinery near Broken Hill - runs through the processes of copper refining and the benefits it brings ...

The work of a copper mine in Northern Rhodesia. Examines the geology of Rhodesia and shows how and where the ...

An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.

Scenes at the annual Hull fair.

Replacement title (0.07). Man at boxing booth gesturing to unseen crowd.The man wearing a light ...

The history of the ups and downs of the tobacco market and its effects on the growers.

A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation ...

Shows the progress being made in the advande of the scheme bringing electricity to Uganda. Describes the erection of overhead ...

'Adventure' film and indirect recruiting appeal for the British Army.

Two soldiers, Jeff Woodley and Kip Dormer, relax with ...

Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...

(1) Ocean voyage home from Pateau in 1939 in M.V. Accra. with visits to Maderia which show the local scenery ...

19th century geographer/explorers Richard Burton and John Speke make two successive journeys together to find the source of the Nile. ...

Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton visits Mau Mau territory and meets the senior chief of the Kikuyu tribe. Mr Lyttelton is ...

A day in the life of a 'typical' English family. Intended for African distribution.

After an opening shot of a policeman ...

Comedy. Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. ...

An interview with Ian Smith about the future of Rhodesia.

Amateur film of Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia: the mine, housing for Africans and Europeans. Testing water supply.

Amateur footage shot in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, showing how the mine and the community have developed since 1930

Amateur footage of scenes in and around Mufulira Hospital, Northern Rhodesia.

Mulenga is hired to do odd jobs in the grounds of a big house. However, another employee deviously tries to ...

Mulenga visits Lake Malawi and meets misfortune at every turn.

INTEREST. A survey of the position of natives in various parts of South Africa.

r.1 Shots of natives in a busy ...

Looks at the work of the Mzilikazi Arts and Crafts Centre in Bulawayo in training African artists, particularly in creating ...

Travelogue of everyday life in Nairobi, Kenya, concluding with the ceremony granting the town the status of a city.

A British ...

Amateur footage of scenes in and around Nairobi shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissiner, Kenya 1934-1935. A house, the ...

Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl ...

African Safari adventure film: a hunting expedition comes to grief when they fail to placate the natives. But the leader ...

Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.

ACTUALITY. A lion hunt in East Africa.

"Native lion hunt" (2). An African on horseback canters towards the camera (9). African ...

Footage of local life in Southern Nigeria.

INTEREST. Scenes of African life in the Congo.

Main title (5). A mother sitting on the ground and surrounded by baskets ...

Outlines the measures farmers should adopt to prevent soil erosion.

A 4.7-inch naval gun being drawn across the drift by ox-teams. As the gun descends the steep embankment, it is ...