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'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Title and credits. The undeveloped ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
Good practice in animal husbandry illustrated through the daily life of a Kenyan cattle farmer. He milks cows, delivers milk ...
Explores the conflicting attitudes towards development in an 'under-developed ar ea' the Seychelles, and points out how economic advance can ...
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...
INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop ...
Roy Welensky is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, topics include the Commonwealth, racial policy, South Africa, possible constitutional change, imperial rule ...
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage ...
AMATEUR FILM. IAC leader. `En route at Khartoum': loading and boarding plane; Salisbury; street scenes; flower market; bowling green; `Astor' ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War wounded being taken onto a hospital ship.
A continuous line of sick and wounded British soldiers being carried ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
DRAMA. A group of settlers are attacked by Arabs and lions.
Three settlers are besieged by a group of hostile Arabs. ...
Main title (1 frame). Military camp with a pyramid in the background. Australian army horse-drawn wagons move to camera (35). ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar ...
Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" ...