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TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further ...
Scenes in the Seychelles. Mahe island from the sea, Victoria and the shops. Football match, HMS Kenya, meeting and country ...
Scenes in the Seychelles. Mahe and Victoria. Island life, garden party, wedding and Corpus Christi parade. Beach, sailing to outer ...
This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...
Begins with title board for Roach film 'Scenes in the Seychelles'. Then changes to colour family footage. Girls sitting on ...
A short clip of two European toddlers (the Roaches?), inside a bungalow, then playing on a beach. Some baby turtles ...
A short clip mainly around a confirmation service for many local girls dressed in white and accompanied by a large ...
A large gathering of formally dressed adults is seen surrounding a two storey non-native building. A group of formally dressed ...
Girls on giant tortoise. Hitting tortoise with stick. Swimming. Man with six fingers.
Infant playing in garden. Wedding. Some landscape scenes.
Mission hospital? Leper. Coastal scenes. Local boys climbing a greasy pole? Offcial visit: Governor? Crowds listen to address. Sailing ships. ...
Giant tortoise. Coastal and shipboard scenes. Hunting of sea turtles (possibly same footage as Roach 007?). Ships at sea. Coastal ...
Family and home scenes.
Castle Films production showing 'pigmies' constructing a complex and very large rope bridge across a river. Very probably Uganda: shot ...
Scenes at home in Seychelles: swimming. Ocean voyage. Suez canal. Rough seas.
The South African Army at war.
Film showing: the departure of troops to Kenya; how the equipment was provided; ...
Two adventurers are taken in by two girls and finance them into the jungle. They leave them when they find ...
Amateur footage of an African village (probably Mufulira) built for factory workers. Sanitation conditions, European housing and recreation facilities
ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy ...
Comedy.
Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.
Prince Philip talks about his world tour of 1956-57. Scenes in Ceylon, Australia, Antarctica and The Gambia.
Home movie of the Rowntree family on tour in Africa.
In 1925 the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) was sent to South Africa to persuade the government ...