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'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new ...
Adventure story about cowardice versus bravery among British soldiers in the 1880s.
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
Four couples describe their holidays:- Kariba/Eastern Highlands, Lake Nyasa, Victoria Falls, Lake Tangyanika.
January 7th 1955. An announcement by Chief Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria at the radio station? He ...
DOCUMENTARY: Independence Day celebrations in Ghana, including ceremonies and pageants and the opening of the Ghana Parliament by the Duchess ...
The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a ...
The Rhodesian Army in operation against Nationalist guerillas.
The destruction of Rhodesia's native timber resources and the need for careful management of that resource.
LIVE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME. The first of the series.
Main title over rock band Humble Pie playing to studio audience ...
Native is instructed on irrigation by local Agricultural Assistant.
The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.
The film begins by offering a historical ...
Tracing the development of Gallagher's tobacco company and showing modern factories in Great Britain and the farm in Rhodesia where ...
GOVERNMENT FILM. A record of the Queen's visit to the Gambia in 1962.
MS. Looking up at lioness on large rock (5). MCU. Two lionesses looking out over a rock (11). "A truly ...
African labourers excavating a clearing, with railway tracks in the background. The Africans may be Zulus (94ft).
TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE HONEY> IS MADE INTO A ...
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots ...
ACTUALITY. Boer WAr. A procession of ox-drawn wagons passing down a trail over a hill towards the camera; the oxen ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish ...
A study of Northern Nigeria as it prepares for self-government.
The commentator introduces Africa as the 'continent of the future' before ...
Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, ...
INTEREST. A film of British West Africa.
Credits (23). The primitive fishing of the natives on the Gold Coast - they ...