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New Link in the North - Mr. W.G. Dunlop opens bridge.
Seeing the Sights - 4 london fashion models on tour ...
General impression of the Sahara city of Kano, culminating in the concluding festival of the Moslem Ramadhan.
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
Tracing the development of Gallagher's tobacco company and showing modern factories in Great Britain and the farm in Rhodesia where ...
Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, ...
Victoria Nile School sports day. Swimming scenes in swimming pools.
Visit of Queen Mother. Military parade in presence of Governer; Airforce fly past.
Shipboard scene (crossing the line?). Jinja sailing club. On the equator. Baby. Owen falls.
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via ...
The construction of the Kariba Dam; opening by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother 17/5/60; removal of wildlife from the affected area ...
Documentary about yearly Barotse migration.
Yearly rise of the flood waters on the Zambezi necessitates a seasonal migration - ...
Wankie Game reserve. Victoria Falls. Safari.
This film includes footage of building work going on in Kisumu docks, a family Christmas, sailing boats racing on a ...
Holidays in the Seychelles and Cyprus
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.
'Adventure' film and indirect recruiting appeal for the British Army.
Two soldiers, Jeff Woodley and Kip Dormer, relax with ...
Outlines the measures farmers should adopt to prevent soil erosion.
An information film on Nigeria, illustrating the advantages of a deliberate and orderly progress to independence.
The film provides ...
Dramatised scene: Doctor and patient. The patient is now better unlike his father. The story of the father is told ...
The Ministerial procession at Lagos with the appointment of Nigeria's first Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on the eve of ...
The nursery school at Runyararo and how it helps the mothers. RM 2539
The opening of the Kariba Dam.
The situation at this time of unrest in the Central African Federation. This pro gramme was first transmitted in 1960 ...
Film about Christmas in Rhodesia.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains ...
Film about the development of Salisbury.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and ...
Advancement in Rhodesia'. Contents include: reasons for independence; increases in numbers of Africans in authority; improvements in condition of tribal ...
Unedited (?) film of Rhodesia.
Street scenes in Rhodesia and shots inside a prison.
Tour by the Queen Mother to C.A.F. 1960. Plusher production of FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT NO. 108
A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.
Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in ...
Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with ...
John Freeman interviews Rhodesian politician, Sir Roy Welensky about his life and political career.
Three men doing different kinds of work done by Christian missionaries in Kenya. First man is a missionary doctor on ...
Film abot Wankie national park, showing the park, camps, people game watching, and the game.
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday in Africa on a riverboat safari.
Shot of William Butlin with an 8mm (?) ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on holiday in Africa.
Shot of William Butlin plus a European man and woman (possibly Nora, ...
William Butlin is greeted by a European man as he arrives in ...
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday. Various pieces of footage, largely in Africa, including WB with his second wife ...
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday in Africa. Shots of WB at his hotel, on safari, on a riverboat, ...
Amateur film of William Butlin in African villages.
William Butlin with African children in a village, handing them food. Young African ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on safari in Uganda, Africa, c.1960.
William Butlin chatting to a middle-aged man with glasses in ...
The industrial evolution of Rhodesia.
Amateur film about tradition and change in Africa including footage of a male circumcision ceremony performed by the Bugisu tribe, ...
Winston Field discusses his government's decision to introduce the death penalty for a variety of offences, including petrol bombing. Also ...
A family tours Southern Rhodesia on holiday. Shows holiday spots from the Eastern Districts, the Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Zimbabwe ruins, ...
Standard tourist film about the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.
Tribal life in Kenya; local religions; educational, medical and other activities of the Methodist Church.