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Pottery making methods among the Bimal tribe at Danana, Somaliland.
Dry clay is collected and pounded and sifted to make a ...
Pottery making methods among the Eile tribe at Gelib, Somaliland.
The potter and his wife. The woman puddles the clay. The ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens ...
An investigation into the need for Kariba now that the Central African Federation has ended. John Hooper weighs up.
The opening of the Kariba Dam.
Kariba built for power provision for the North and South. An examination of social structures between white and black, role ...
The Owen Falls Dam, how it was planned and built and how it will supply Uganda w ith electricity. Shows ...
European team tackle eradication of the fly which causes Onchoceriasis ('River Blindness'). Habitat of the fly and larvae. Exploration of ...
ACTUALITY. Long shot of President Kruger.
A long shot of Kruger leaving his residence to be driven off to the Volksraad. ...
The Roundel of the Rhodesian Air Force bears the lion insignia, hence the play o n a "pride" of eagles. ...
Harold Wilson explains the government's decision to send troops to Zambia and to tighten trade sanctions against Rhodesia.
Illustrates primitive methods of iron smelting by means of account of methods used today by the Bantu peoples.
"INCIDENTS DURING HIS VISIT TO FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE". Two shots of official ceremonies during which the Prince is not seen ...
Prince Philip's visit to Gambia; a crocodile shoot in the jungle; presiding at a gathering of Gambia chiefs.
Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, ...
A pantomime on the Boer War in the form of a boxing match between men dressed as John Bull and ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya
Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). ...
Semi-fictionalised film showing the rle of the local council in Kojokrom, a town in the Western Region of ...
An African hospital.
The film covers the reception and treatment of a street accident case, with a glance at the X-ray ...
Shows the long-term side of Oxfams's work through the example of Basutoland, whe re Oxfam is financing farmer training and ...
Pygmies of the Central African rain forest; aspects of their way of life - domestic, hunting, and bartering.
INTEREST. The Victoria Falls.
Various shots of the Falls seen from different angles (181). A small boat, manned by Africans, being ...
Newsreel coverage of an RAF photographic survey of East Africa.
No. 68 Photographic Squadron, which has been redrawing the map of Africa, moves all its men and equipment by air ...
A FILM PROMOTING THE WORK OF THE RSPCA
Amateur footage of Harvard and Lincoln planes operating in Kenya. The film includes images of a bombing raid over the ...
A documentary looking at Rhodesian techniques for "seeding" clouds to create rainfall. It includes various shots of different types of ...
I. Tracking shots of numerous captured 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank guns lined up a desert location (Libya or Tunisia). Also ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Boer War(?)
A battlefield, with cannons and wounded soldiers, is filmed from behind the British line(?) A horse-drawn ambulance arrives ...
Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.
Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in ...
INTEREST. Apparently a compilation of three or more African travelogues, including material on the port of Mits'iwa in Ethiopia, and ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, ...
Emphasises the need for improvement of social conditions and closer integration of all races in East Africa to enable Africans ...
Documentary film of the Anglo-French intervention in and around Suez and Port Said in November 1956.
"At the Mediterranean ...
Progress report on the Kariba Dam scheme.
Report on the Kariba Dam scheme, and the effects of the record floods.
Report on the secession of Nyasaland from the Central African Federation, with a particular look at its economic potential.
Denis Mitchell talks to some of the Rhodesians, both black and white, he met on his journey through the country ...
The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at ...
A British student re-visits his sister in Africa. A remembered safari in Uganda is contrasted with a subsequent safari through ...
Story of two orphan lion cubs brought up by a game warden in a Rhodesian reserve.
INTEREST. Rhinoceros hunting in Africa.
Two European men looking through binoculars, and approaching with a line of African bearers, follow a ...
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...
A consideration of the British press coverage of the war in Rhodesia.
An issue of the BBC current affairs programme, looking at the situation in Rhodesia.
Coverage of Rhodesia, transmitted on ITV on 8 December 1966.
Coverage of Rhodesia, transmitted on ITV on 8 September 1966.