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While visiting XV Corps area Lieutenant-General M B Burrows flies in to inspect 82nd West African Division on ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye (Vice Chief Imperial General Staff) pays a short visit to 82nd West African Division ...
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; ...
The building of Kyle dam and its effects on the sugar industry.
Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.
Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - ...
The story of David Livingstone's life up to the conclusion of his great trans-African journey, during which he discovered the ...
Dramatised account of the mugging of a mineworker on his way home from work.
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Ceremonies on the occasion of the raising of the Union Jack at Pretoria, 5 June 1900.
Long shot ...
Guides and Brownies greet and march past Lord Rowallan who takes the salute.
Love story of an English girl, who has gone to live on her sister's farm in Rhodesia and is wooed ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
Ben, Bebe and Barbara in Africa, mostly watching ritual dancing. Ben, Bebe and Barbara in a large garden - home? ...
Bechaunaland. Arrival of work party by lorry in open rolling grass country. Tools and equipment taken from lorry. Hole dug ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of a holiday on a cruise liner, and in Madeira and Africa, including shots of Victoria ...
Dramatised account of a missionary savaged by a lion while out visiting a missionary school.
Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, and their encounter with the Pygmies.
The camera ...
Young African witnesses a pocket picking and helps the police, is impressed by the police and decides to join. He ...
Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The film shows the role of the chief in ...
This film includes footage of building work going on in Kisumu docks, a family Christmas, sailing boats racing on a ...
On safari in Kenya, and various shots taken in Amsterdam, Devon, Aberdeen and Vienna.
Safaris in Kenya north of Mombasa, and the Royal Show
This film is a visual diary of the Marsh's journey to South Africa by car from The Limpopo river to ...
Holidays in the Seychelles and Cyprus
Local land inspector looks at farmer's land where poor farming methods by the "mostly idle" blacks has led to erosion. ...