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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan achieved independence as Sudan on 1 January 1956.
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AS AIR BLITZ PETERS, BRITAIN AWAITS ISSUE OF INVASION THREAT KING ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY GROWS APACE AIR WAYS AREN'T ALWAYS WAR ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: YOUNG ENGLAND PREPARES CONVOYS CARRY ON PROVINCIAL BUSES HELP LONDON QUEEN ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: DUNKIRK BOATMEN HONOURED A SOUTH AFRICA'S HOME GUARD KING RECEIVES ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH ADVANCE INTO ABYSSINIA BATTLE DEMOSNTRATION BY OUR ARMY LORD HALIFAX ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of ...
INTEREST. Travelogue.
Main title. A native family is seen emerging one after another from a mud hut that has a thatched ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a ...
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, ...
Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken ...
"Opening of Pump Scheme - Governor and District Commissioners" - British officials, Egyptians, band. "Sudan Defence Force - Kaid Inspecting ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of ...
The importance of the life-giving waters of the Nile to Sudan and Egypt with property depending on the success of ...
Adventure story about cowardice versus bravery among British soldiers in the 1880s.
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Phillips Dixon while serving as hydrographer on HMS Dahlia shows work of locally ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...
Amateur. A journey from Khartoum, Sudan to Lake Chad.
Traders in market square selling onions etc Ancient ruins in desert - ...
King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend ...
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; ...
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Sudan.
Main title. The new Nile bridge at Kosti with a steamer passing (13-38); ferry scenes at Omdurman ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...
INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law ...
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).
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; ...
The discussion on the admission of Sudan to the United Nations. Sir Pierson Dixon supports the application as does the ...
Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Libyan campaign of 1940-41 in which General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
r.1 British military cemetery in ...
DRAMA. Military adventure set in the Sudan, concerning the rescue of a younger brother by the elder brother disguised as ...