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Dramatised advertising film for Lux toilet soap intended for African audiences.
The film opens with an African man sitting and playing ...
Rhodes Centenary exhibition. Royal family. Pavilions, exhibits. Grave of Leander Starr Jameson.
Production / Donor Details: Films Shot by Leslie Matisonn
The background to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and steps being taken to suppress it.
The film opens ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes around the island of Mauritius.
Credits. Titles (37). MLS island of Réunion viewed from a moving boat (44). MCU ...
Amateur film. Mauritius - local scenery and residents.
Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for ...
The operation of a mechanical workshop (PWD IJORA) which repairs government machinery and property in Nigeria.
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...
Story of adventures of group of white people in building railway from Mombasa to Uganda in 1880.
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...
Pottery in Sierra Leone.
Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of ...
WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.
No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, ...
The Alaska copper refinery near Broken Hill - runs through the processes of copper refining and the benefits it brings ...
The work of a copper mine in Northern Rhodesia. Examines the geology of Rhodesia and shows how and where the ...
An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.
Scenes at the annual Hull fair.
Replacement title (0.07). Man at boxing booth gesturing to unseen crowd.The man wearing a light ...
The history of the ups and downs of the tobacco market and its effects on the growers.
A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation ...
Shows the progress being made in the advande of the scheme bringing electricity to Uganda. Describes the erection of overhead ...
'Adventure' film and indirect recruiting appeal for the British Army.
Two soldiers, Jeff Woodley and Kip Dormer, relax with ...