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Tour of the beauty spots of Nyasaland.
Jim and Jane tour Rhodesia.
Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to South Africa, May 1925.
Main title ...
How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.
The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as ...
No.1 Deals with the nutritional importance of palm oil and palm kernels. Depicts also West African life in the rain ...
Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his ...
Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added ...
INTEREST. Travelogue of Uganda around the Semliki river.
Main title: "This chapter being `ON THE EQUATOR'" (5). Credit and intertitle (29). ...
Travelogue of Southern Africa: the Transvaal, Pretoria, Johannesburg mines, Rhodesia, Kimberley diamond mines, Buffalo river, Port Elizabeth, an ostrich farm, ...
The Duke of Kent's tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1934.
A broad look at African life and missionary work, contrasting old and new ways and Europeans and native Africans.
Lord Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, returns for conference. Filmed with his mother (34ft).
The opening ceremony of Takoradi harbour by the Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas on 3rd April 1928. Mr Thomas and the ...
Addition of a new operating theatre to the Nixon Memorial Hospital in Sierra Leone.
The film offers a review of the current dvelopments in the countries surrounding Rhodesia, and shows the troops patrolling the ...
The British campaign in German East Africa, late 1915 to early 1916.
Soldiers of the King's African Rifles patrolling ...
A true story, showing the problems and difficulties of the Principal of a Theological College as he attempts to bring ...
The story of Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name of Isak Dinesen about her experiences in Kenya. She moves ...
The life of Africans against the background of village life and life in the cities of Rhodesia and in the ...
Racial conflict in Kenya.
Official production highlights the war effort of Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War.
The film opens with a ...
Main title. British East African troops in tropical kit loading their horses onto a train (100ft).
An ox wagon passes before the camera at some distance; another passes at closer range; a caravan of ox wagons, ...
Amateur footage of the Oxford University expedition to Gambia in 1948. Part 1. Packing the trucks in Oxford and on ...
Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British ...
INDUSTRIAL. The collection and manufacture of palm nuts and palm oil; travelling shots along the River Niger and its tributaries; ...
Includes an item looking at the progress and deterioration of the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of two ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. 'Phantom ride' taken from a moving train (moving right to left) showing the British encampment at Frere, ...
Includes: Nairobi: independence for Kenya.
Scenes of the Australian (?) army training in the desert in Egypt. Plus extracts from two other films.
Main title (5). ...
Scenes in an African guides camp.
Documentary on the dependencies of Mauritius, the islands of Rodriguez and Diego Garcia and the social and economic life of ...
Amateur footage of a trip from Madagascar to Pemba Island.
The film opens in colour with a French steamer leaving Madagascar ...
By means of a letter addressed to 'the members, Cinema Clubs for Girls and Boys, Great Britain', a young boy ...
Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.
The World Health Organisation at work in Bolivia, Nigeria and Burma.
Two short publicity films for Phillips bicycles for the West African market.
Various black men on bicycles pointing to leaves(?) sacks(?), ...
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
Carving wooden pillows. Cutting a suitable branch - a forked section - which is measured, shaped with axe and adze ...
Travelogue of Rhodesia.
The story of a young disabled boy who escapes from his tribe as he is about to be sacrificed because ...
Colour documentary showing the migration of a Barotse tribe from Mongu to Limulunga during the seasonal floods.
The film opens with ...
"Smithers" is sent to Gwelo to investigate business oportunities - then follows an advertising film for Gwelo, tracing its history ...
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
Two seamen, just off a ship, are involved in transmitting a package with the proceeds of a robbery. The smuggler ...