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ACTUALITY. Single shot. British naval ratings firing a 4.7" naval gun, during the Boer War, probably 14 December 1899.
Close shot ...
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native ...
Looks at the land development officer and the implementation of the Land Husbandry Act and other improvements, such as drainage, ...
How the Birmingham branch of the Co-operative movement is helping to ralse $30,0 00 to start consumer co-ops in Bechuanaland ...
Conditions faced by a team of explorers looking for oil. Principal locations Persian Gulf, Canada, Papua, Zanzibar, Trinidad.
A film showing Ian Smith's address to Rhodesia on his 'new initiative' to bring Africans into government. The Prime Minister ...
Shows how the market place, symbol of West African trade, gives way to a new pattern of trading, and how ...
The No. 1 Mrewa Club from Salisbury perform 3 African dances.
PART 1
"NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON ...
Leslie Henson's home movie. Sierra Leone. Leslie Henson with native girl. Game reserve. Natives
Travelogue. Scenes in Northern Nigeria. A compilation of footage taken from other films (see note at end of synopsis).
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Production footage for a film about a journey down the River Niger, Africa.
No titles. LS man scaling down a palm ...
A journey along the West African coast to Lagos and scenes in Lagos.
No main title. "At sunrise we arrive off ...
A series of shots of the Niger Company's, J. Walkden's and W.B. McIver's buildings in Nigeria, usually consisting of a ...
An information film on Nigeria, illustrating the advantages of a deliberate and orderly progress to independence.
The film provides ...
Dramatised scene: Doctor and patient. The patient is now better unlike his father. The story of the father is told ...
Film of the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Nigeria.
The Ministerial procession at Lagos with the appointment of Nigeria's first Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on the eve of ...
BP film featuring footage from Nigeria.
The passing out parade of the first Nigerian women's police. Also shows the policewomen on duty.
The commentator introduces 'this historic ...
THE ELECTIONS TO SET UP REGIONAL LEGISLATURES IN NORTHERN, EASTERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA; AND THE MEETING OF THE NEW LEGISLATURES ...
The planning and building of the University College of Ibadan and its opening ceremony.
Amateur film showing native dances, markets and race meetings in Nigeria.
4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and ...
Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in ...
Missionary work in Nigeria. The difficulties of facing Third World development, in a religious context. The film shows the problems ...
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
Advertising. Film showing the manufacture of Cadbury's products - cocoa, chocolate and 'Bournvita'.
Rl.1 Credits (54). PROLOGUE. The night watchman of ...
INTEREST: Amateur film shot along lower reaches of Nile in Uganda: The Nile: shots taken from boat on river of ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. A journey through Egypt on a Nile steamboat. The boat passes all types of rivercraft (120), stretches of ...
Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.
A drama of tribal life in Central Africa.
'Nionga, a chieftain's daughter, is induced by a vindictive witch-doctor to persuade her ...
Work of Missionary International House for overseas students in London, the theme being that there is no colour bar of ...
A follow-up to WORLD IN ACTION: LIABLE TO PROSECUTION about Shell and BP's involvement in illegal oil exports to Rhodesia. ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet ...
Complications ensue for two game warden brothers in Africa when the girlfriend of one of them arrives from England.
Multiple reels on DVD. Family wedding. Journey from South African to Lagos. Flight to Kaduna. Picnic near Kaduna. Kaduna Polo ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
THE INSTALLATION OF THE SARDANA OF SOKOTO> AS PREMIER OF NORTHERN NIGERIA AT KADUNA>, 1ST OCTOBER, 1954
A trip by truck from Nairobi into the semi-arid Northern Frontier Districts.
Travelogue of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, highlighting the contrast between old and new methods. The film shows the development ...
The visit of Sir Gilbert and Lady Gilbert ot Lusaka - arrival by train, meets local workers, is sworn in, ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the ...
Scenes on the Cape to Cairo railway.
The nursery school at Runyararo and how it helps the mothers. RM 2539
A family arrives home from holiday and recount their holiday to grandparents - all about Luangwa game park.