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The Gold Coast achieved independence as Ghana in 1957.
"A GOLD COAST ROMANCE - Police Corporal Williams and his dusky bride, from the Exhibition native village, married at St. ...
A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where ...
A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.
Over footage ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...
I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet ...
I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in ...
Ceremonies surrounding the installation of the Queen Mother of Enyeresi.
The building up of the cocoa-processing industry in the Gold Coast.
A farmer in the Gold Coast (Ghana) learns how to increase his yield of cocoa through the use of insecticides.
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country ...
The correct method of harvesting, fermenting and grading of cocoa.
In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...
WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.
Comedy. Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. ...
Advertising. Film showing the manufacture of Cadbury's products - cocoa, chocolate and 'Bournvita'.
Rl.1 Credits (54). PROLOGUE. The night watchman of ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film ...
Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added ...
The opening ceremony of Takoradi harbour by the Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas on 3rd April 1928. Mr Thomas and the ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens ...
Semi-fictionalised film showing the rle of the local council in Kojokrom, a town in the Western Region of ...
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and ...
The enlarging and improving of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast.
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
Story of the maiden voyage of HMS Ashanti, a Tribal Class destroyer, to visit the Gold Coast to ...
Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.
The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit ...
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
The wealth which its timber brings to the Gold Coast.
'The Port of Accra- capital of the Gold Coast and Headquarters of one of the Fry Buying Agencies.' Viewed from ...
How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.
Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a ...
The industrial development of West Africa (probably Gold Coast and Nigeria) under British rule.
West Africa before it was developed; forests ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife ...
Drama about an overseer of a rubber plantation.