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Oases in the Sahara Desert.
Egyptian film of the Suez Incident.
Port Said - tourists, government building programme, increased prosperity following upon Suez Canal ...
START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner ...
A picture, early in the war, of the armed solidarity of the British Empire.
The film serves to illustrate ...
Aerial film of the city, taken after the Suez operation, is produced as evidence to refute Egyptian "allegations ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
The funeral of Hussein Kemal, first Sultan of Egypt, in Cairo, 10 October 1917.
The chief mourner is the ...
VHS of a series of still photographs with an accompanying written script. 1. Shots of Zanzibar, including places and buildings ...
Story of the maiden voyage of HMS Ashanti, a Tribal Class destroyer, to visit the Gold Coast to ...
Documentary. The Patonka tribe, their family structure, work methods are shown as they prepare to move to the highlands. The ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...
Outline of the development of Rhodesia, including its industrial development, improvements in education and health service, and the good transport ...
Survey of the peoples, customs and economy of Nigeria.
Travelogue of Nigeria. Includes Kano airport, Kano town - the mosque and ...
A review of the then current state of Rhodesia of its past and future prospects - a very optimistic and ...
A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.
Three men doing different kinds of work done by Christian missionaries in Kenya. First man is a missionary doctor on ...
'Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, ...
Comedy.
The operation of the PWD Sawmill in Nigeria.
The various stages in the production of Rhodesian tobacco, cultivation, harvesting, grading, selling and shipping. The work of the research ...
Cultivation of tobacco, season by season on a Southern Rhodesian estate,from the preparation of the ground to the curing and ...
General account of the production of tobacco, with special reference to Southern Rhodesia; includes a study of an actual tobacco ...
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; ...
Items include: Boat people arriving in Hong Kong [7.32 dur] Botha talking about the new Muzorewa government in Rhodesia [5.05 ...
Amateur film.
Girls school run by missionaries - shots of Miss Attlee teaching the girls English games with African actions (e.g. ...
The story of Rhodes' influence in Africa. Includes exterior of house where he was born; his grave; African mining towns; ...
The official tour of Mr. Amery through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada between July 1927 and February 1928.
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, ...
AFRICAN BOYS MAKING WHEELED WIRE TOYS
A steam traction engine hauling timber in a dockyard, apparently in South Africa (during the Boer War). A number of ...
African jungle spectacle.
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on ...
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN ...
ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk ...
A fictional children's film recalling the journey of trekkers in 1892 from the Transvaal to the Mashomba Valley in Mashonaland. ...
Highlights of the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Travelogue. A view of the Zambezi from the banks (6-14); a boat embarks from the shore (36); and canoes on ...
Amateur travelogue. Edwin and Rene Brown spend their holiday on Mauritius and the Seychelles. They enjoy the islands' beaches and ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A Company of British troops, just arrived in Port Elizabeth, march from the jetty towards a square ...
ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each ...
A description of the significant changes which have occured in tropical Africa during this century. The contrasts between rural and ...
Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.
The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit ...
Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.
An African man, 'a typical case of chronic ...