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Items include: Boat people arriving in Hong Kong [7.32 dur] Botha talking about the new Muzorewa government in Rhodesia [5.05 ...
Amateur film.
Girls school run by missionaries - shots of Miss Attlee teaching the girls English games with African actions (e.g. ...
The story of Rhodes' influence in Africa. Includes exterior of house where he was born; his grave; African mining towns; ...
The official tour of Mr. Amery through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada between July 1927 and February 1928.
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, ...
AFRICAN BOYS MAKING WHEELED WIRE TOYS
A steam traction engine hauling timber in a dockyard, apparently in South Africa (during the Boer War). A number of ...
African jungle spectacle.
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on ...
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN ...
ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk ...
A fictional children's film recalling the journey of trekkers in 1892 from the Transvaal to the Mashomba Valley in Mashonaland. ...
Highlights of the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Travelogue. A view of the Zambezi from the banks (6-14); a boat embarks from the shore (36); and canoes on ...
Amateur travelogue. Edwin and Rene Brown spend their holiday on Mauritius and the Seychelles. They enjoy the islands' beaches and ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A Company of British troops, just arrived in Port Elizabeth, march from the jetty towards a square ...
ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each ...
A description of the significant changes which have occured in tropical Africa during this century. The contrasts between rural and ...
Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.
The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit ...
Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.
An African man, 'a typical case of chronic ...