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Includes: repatriation to Tristan da Cunha from Tilbury.
Wild life documentary filmed on the Falkland Islands about a colony of five million penguins that live there.
The work of the British Red Cross Society. Comm. Alan Badel
Chris and Alison Wright look at homes in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.
INTEREST. Travelogue and promotional film for the island of Bermuda.
Main title and credits (37). LS `Queen of Bermuda' liner leaving ...
Travelogue showing the people and buildings of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
The initial title explains that 'this capital city of the most southern ...
"Every year on the two days preceding Ash Wednesday, Dominica gives itself up to the spirit of Carnival".
Review of the tour by the queen of the West Coast of the North American continen t.
Extract of the Queen's activities from newsreels.
R.1: Visiting British Guyana, the first stop of the Caribean Tour since exception of ...
Report on the statement in the House of Commons special session on Saturday April 3rd by the prime minister which ...
Report on the crisis in the Falkland Islands with a fully detailed look at the Haig peace plans and interviews ...
Report on the growing problems which the UK is encountering over the disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands with an ...
A light-hearted look at different ways people relax. Lilias Tougher, a teacher in the village of Great Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, ...
A look back at ITN' coverage of the Falklands War. Includes newsfilm and the reports of ITN's Michael Nicholson. ...
Looks at the key role played by the SAS in gathering reconnaissance information and joining the main taskforce in the ...
Documentary record of the British Combined Services Expedition to South Georgia, with archive footage of Shackleton's expedition 1914-1917.
Preparation ...
Wildlife of the Falkland islands coastline.
A top twenty of the most romantic destinations as voted for by various travel editors. Includes: Monte Carlo, Bermuda, St ...
The Canopus touching down in Montego Bay; the visit to Kingston, the American n naval reception at Panama; the enthusiasm ...
Report on the Royal visit.
The visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their world tour on 24th Novemebr 1953.
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 28 February 1941 on a cold and wet day in Scapa Flow as a large ...
The work and living conditions of the scientists who man the seven bases set up in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. ...
Visits Scarborough's tunny fish museum and meets Mark Goff a fisherman who used to be involved in the local tunny ...
Airport with stationary Bahamas Airways air plane. Holiday yachting in Bahamas. Waterways. Moorings. Hotels at the waterside. Snorkelling at off ...
Bahamas Beaches. Coastal scenery. Aquarium with performing seals and dolphins. Golf course with players. Flock of flamingos walking in park.
Beach ...
AN EXPEDITION TO THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL MADE IN 1947 TO OBSERVE THE LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF THE XAVANTES INDIANS
Television programme about life in the RAF.
The film follows 3 characters as they pursue their duties over a ...
Film of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December ...
Leisure, ceremonial, and celebrations in British Honduras, including a regatta and cricket matches. Followed by plantation work and bridge construction.
Production ...
Clearing forest for banana plantation. Cultivation (including air spraying of crops) and harvesting and transportation of the crop to the ...
ACTUALITY. A record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Polar expedition.
Rl.1 Sir Ernest Shackleton, in CU and wearing military uniform (65-68); ...
Record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1921.
Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join ...
New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of ...
The travel writer and broadcaster, Pete McCarthy, visits St Helena as part of his travel series.
St Helena in the South Atlantic is one of Britain's few remaining colonies. In April, led by Prince Andrew, the ...
TRAVELOGUE OF ST. HELENA.
Documentary which looks at the events on South Georgia after invasion by the Argentinian forces had caused wildlife camera team ...
A detailed and comprehensive examination of the developing economies of the Caribbean, specifically the island of St. Lucia and the ...
Holidays in the Caribbean: Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua, Tobago and Trinidad.
Duncan Carse revisits South Georgia where he was marooned fifteen years ago. After a freak tidal wave washed away his ...
Film showing an army catering section at a camp in British Guiana.
Footage of the soldiers cooking is followed ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
An 'on the spot' report by Julian Pettifer showing the rle of the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the ...