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The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
Uganda: Reel 1 of 4
Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of ...
The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and ...
Tribal dancing in Africa; witch doctors.
Tribal African village life.
"Equatorial Africa". Meeting of the village elders; the chief addressing them; warriors with spears; men returing from ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law ...
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...
A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.
A ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and ...
A young man leaving his village to work in copper mines of Northern Rhodesia; emphasis on contrasts between traditional and ...
A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
Cairo and the river Nile.
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Main title. The official party walk on to a raised platform decorated with Union flags and take the salute (35). ...
A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
A tour of Salisbury and the surrounding areas set to music. The film opens with aerial views of the city ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...
Family in the British Colonial Service in West Africa. Their son revolts against the life and becomes involved with a ...
An examination of the different aspects of the role of a policeman in Southern Rhodesia through dramatised reconstructions.
A police band ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long column of mounted troops fording a river (148ft).
Note: Lord Roberts took the surrender of Kroonstad ...
Cherry Kearton's journey in the Congo, showing wildlife along the course of Semliki River.
INTEREST. Aspects of life among the Swazi; parts of the Kingship and First-Fruits Ceremony, or Incwala, shown. Shots of countryside ...
The enlarging and improving of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast.
Amateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black ...
Lumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an ...
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...
Tarzan to the rescue of the occupants of a plane that has crashed in Africa jungle. He saves them from ...
Romance of Tarzan and Jane.
Feature film made out of the 12 part serial of the same title.
Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.
Tarzan rescues a party of explorers after gold, who have kidnapped Boy and Jane, from the inroads of a savage ...
Historical introduction (tea in China, its arrival in Europe, etc.) followed by the presentation of tea industry in East Africa; ...
Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.
A brief history of telephones worldwide, with a special look at coomunications in Rhodesia.
Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.
Life in Central Africa.
Views of traditional life in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to illustrate the tribal background to missionary work.
London - Thames scenes - ...