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Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ...
Scenes from the lives of people in an African native tribe. A woman gathers up an animal hide and walks ...
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train ...
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a ...
Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are ...
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient ...
INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river. ...
TRAVELOGUE. A Pathé colour film showing African natives throwing cartridges into a river and catching the stunned fish.
African tribal dancing.
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows ...
Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education ...
Amateur. A European family holidaying in Africa.
Beach hut on island. Boat out at sea. Africans dancing and drinking beer. European ...
Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander ...
ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the ...
The story of Alec Smith, son of the Rhodesia Prime Minister, as drop-out, former drug smuggler and addict and his ...
Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).
TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.
Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the ...
Story of 6,000 mile journey by road rail and air from Cape Town to Cairo.
ACTUALITY. Boer War: hauled by a long mule train a four-wheeled cart with three British soldiers seated at the rear ...