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Flights From Nairobi.
Sir Robert Tredgold Visits the USA - greeted by Earl Warren, chief justice.
Scouts Keep Transport Tally.
News fron Nyasaland ...
Fletcher High School - opens.
S. Rhodesia Governor Visits Mtoko - visit hospital and Chiefs.
New Harari Hospital - opened by Lord ...
S. Rhodesian General Elections.
Federal Flashes - the Dalhousies visit Nyasaland tea industry, farming in Msengezi, Lusaka - police passing out ...
Recent Arrivals - Merle Park & Gary Burne at command performance for The Dalhousies.
News from Nyasaland - new Nkata Bay ...
Message from Mountbatten - Lord & Lady Dalhousie visit a schoolbearing Mountbatten's name.
Water for Blantyre.
Probing the Great Riddle - the ...
On the Lake - Nyasa and sea scouts.
The Ndola Show - Lord Dalhousie opens.
The Numismatist - Mr. Epstein at Mufulira.
Youngsters ...
The Standard Goes to Press.
From over the Border - Portuguese Gov. Gen. of Mozambique.
Lundazi Castle.
Polley's Workshop - Nkana mine training ...
The Economy Run - car rally sponsor, Mobile.
Que Que Regatta.
Progress at University College.
Federation Round Up - Blantyre's new railway station, ...
Buy Federal - exhibition in Salisbury.
The Fourth in Ten Months - Lord Dalhousie opens LLewllyn Hospital, Kitwe.
One of the Lucky ...
New GPO for Limbe.
Back from the London Talks - Roy Welensky returns to Salisbury from London; Diana Dors also arrives.
A ...
Art in Nyasaland.
Fragrant Sideline - Mr. Balisra makes citronella oil.
Cookie Has a Look - beauty spot Mpatomange Gorge.
Surprises in International ...
The Final Copper Process - copper refinery at Ndola.
Survey into Sight - St. John mobile eyesight survey in bush.
Lifting Trees ...
New Club for Newsmen - Sir and Lady Welensky open Press Club.
Snakes alive - Salisbury's snake park.
To Back Up Tobacco ...
New Fangs for the Air Force - Canberrra bombers.
Take the Whole Family - drive in cinema at Mabelreign.
This is How ...
N. Rhodesian Elections - at polls in Lusaka.
Swearing in of Mr. Savavhu - first African minister.
Legislative Council opens in Lusaka ...
Token of Gratitude - presentation of ambulance to Bulawayo hospital.
Straight from the Dog's Mouth - dog show.
Roughing it in Comfort ...
Another Big Dam Project Starts - Kyle Dam.
Gubernatorial Change-Over - Sir Arthur Benson leaves, Sir Evelyn and Lady Hone are ...
The Jamboree - Lord Roallen attends international janboree in Salisbury.
Nyasaland Back to Normal - after emergency March 1959.
Round the Federation ...
Extracts from RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTs, a cinemagazine.
"Visit of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury". Geoffrey Fisher at Victoria Falls, Lusaka and ...
Dealing with illicit diamond smuggling on the Sierra Leone. Commentary by Franklin Engelman.
8 reels of various scenes in South Africa and Kenya, 1950s. Places include Nyeri, East London, Ciskei, Stutterheim. Also some ...
Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.
INTEREST. The ruins of Zimbabwe. Close-up of African native, shot of a native beating a drum as commentary states that ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.
MCU British soldiers lined up along trenches aiming their ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further ...
Scenes in the Seychelles. Mahe island from the sea, Victoria and the shops. Football match, HMS Kenya, meeting and country ...
Scenes in the Seychelles. Mahe and Victoria. Island life, garden party, wedding and Corpus Christi parade. Beach, sailing to outer ...
This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...
Begins with title board for Roach film 'Scenes in the Seychelles'. Then changes to colour family footage. Girls sitting on ...
A short clip of two European toddlers (the Roaches?), inside a bungalow, then playing on a beach. Some baby turtles ...
A short clip mainly around a confirmation service for many local girls dressed in white and accompanied by a large ...
A large gathering of formally dressed adults is seen surrounding a two storey non-native building. A group of formally dressed ...
Girls on giant tortoise. Hitting tortoise with stick. Swimming. Man with six fingers.
Infant playing in garden. Wedding. Some landscape scenes.
Mission hospital? Leper. Coastal scenes. Local boys climbing a greasy pole? Offcial visit: Governor? Crowds listen to address. Sailing ships. ...
Giant tortoise. Coastal and shipboard scenes. Hunting of sea turtles (possibly same footage as Roach 007?). Ships at sea. Coastal ...
Family and home scenes.
Castle Films production showing 'pigmies' constructing a complex and very large rope bridge across a river. Very probably Uganda: shot ...
Scenes at home in Seychelles: swimming. Ocean voyage. Suez canal. Rough seas.
The South African Army at war.
Film showing: the departure of troops to Kenya; how the equipment was provided; ...
Two adventurers are taken in by two girls and finance them into the jungle. They leave them when they find ...
Amateur footage of an African village (probably Mufulira) built for factory workers. Sanitation conditions, European housing and recreation facilities
ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy ...
Comedy.
Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.
Prince Philip talks about his world tour of 1956-57. Scenes in Ceylon, Australia, Antarctica and The Gambia.
Home movie of the Rowntree family on tour in Africa.
In 1925 the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) was sent to South Africa to persuade the government ...