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INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down ...
Report on the Royal visit.
Visit of Queen Mother to Rhodesia 4th - 15th July l957.
Tour by the Queen Mother to C.A.F. 1960. Plusher production of FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT NO. 108
Political broadcast. James Callaghan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, looks at the home economic situation and reviews some current affair issues.
Callagahan ...
The Uganda authorities' scheme to transfer the white rhino to the Muschison Fall s National Park to save it from ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, ...
A record of a safari in East Africa.
The 5th Battalion King's East African Rifles returning from a route march. Government ...
AMATEUR record of an expedition in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film concetrates on the baiting of a ...
AMATEUR EXPEDITION film made by Glen Kidston and set in East Africa showing members of a safari, a rhinoceros, lions ...
No main title. "Owing to rains having set in we decide to go ...
A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.
Sammy, aged ten, is orphaned in an air raid at Port Said during Suez. He sets out alone with a ...
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and ...
ACTUALITY. A reconstruction "as performed in the Empress Theatre, 'Greater Britain Exhibition', Earls Court" by Mr Frank E. Fillis's troupe ...
The work of the Save the Children Fund (Basutoland branch) in Basutoland, now Lesotho.
Ostriches being fed by an African keeper, watched by a group of Europeans which includes three women (97ft).
Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as ...
Street scenes in ?Salisbury (177) A Kikuyu farm (263) Wambugu, Chief of the Kikuyu, greets Dr Philps of the Church ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Sudan.
Main title. The new Nile bridge at Kosti with a steamer passing (13-38); ferry scenes at Omdurman ...
START 00:00:00 Filmed between 3 and 6 March 1941 (?), black and white footage showing the new Royal Navy battleship, ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...
ACTUALITY. Seaforth Highlanders in Cairo.
A column of Seaforth Highlanders, wearing topees and with fixed bayonets, march towards and past the ...
Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in ...
THE VISIT OF BRITAINS SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, OLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952
Dramatised history of Rhodesian tobacco growers from 1927-1963.
The film opens with footage of a cricket match at the Umvukwes country ...
Agricultural development in Rhodesia, especially the importance of good quality seeds, developemnt of the tobacco seed.
Documentary describing the rapid growth of the Nigerian palm oil trade.
Celebrations, attended by the Princess Royal, to mark the introduction of self-government in Western Nigeria in November 1957.
The film opens ...
Wildlife in Serengeti National Park. Sign posts in Park. Giraffes Leopards in trees. Vultures. Savanah countryside Visit to Park by ...
Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with ...
Botswanan politician, Khama, is allowed to return for five days, from exile, because his wife is expecting a baby.
[Son of ...
Seretse Khama is seen arriving in a flying boat at Southampton with his wife and child. He is starting his ...
The history of Basutoland and its people provides a background to the problem of murder for medicine in that country. ...
DRAMA. A "faked" newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.
A nurse is seen receiving wounded British soldiers at a ...
View from stern of moving ship shows a faster-moving vessel, with masts and a funnel, approaching then overtaking on the ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...
A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ...
Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Sir Herbert Janes of various locations in Sierra Leone. Opens with boat ...
Record of the royal visit by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Sierra Leone 25/11 - 1/12/1961.
Royal yacht Britannia's ...
George Scott reports from Sierra Leone on its independence; interviews with Dr. D.S.H.W. Nicol, principal of Fourah Bay College, Sir ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in ...
Story of an Englishman involved with the Mau Mau in Kenya.
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out ...