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The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
Uganda: Reel 1 of 4
Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of ...
The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and ...
Tribal dancing in Africa; witch doctors.
Tribal African village life.
"Equatorial Africa". Meeting of the village elders; the chief addressing them; warriors with spears; men returing from ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law ...
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...
A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.
A ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and ...
A young man leaving his village to work in copper mines of Northern Rhodesia; emphasis on contrasts between traditional and ...
A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
Cairo and the river Nile.
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Main title. The official party walk on to a raised platform decorated with Union flags and take the salute (35). ...
A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
A tour of Salisbury and the surrounding areas set to music. The film opens with aerial views of the city ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...