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Kenya attained independence in 1963.
Includes: Nairobi: independence for Kenya.
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya
Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). ...
Newsreel coverage of an RAF photographic survey of East Africa.
No. 68 Photographic Squadron, which has been redrawing the map of Africa, moves all its men and equipment by air ...
Amateur footage of Harvard and Lincoln planes operating in Kenya. The film includes images of a bombing raid over the ...
INTEREST. Apparently a compilation of three or more African travelogues, including material on the port of Mits'iwa in Ethiopia, and ...
A British student re-visits his sister in Africa. A remembered safari in Uganda is contrasted with a subsequent safari through ...
Buy Federal - exhibition in Salisbury.
The Fourth in Ten Months - Lord Dalhousie opens LLewllyn Hospital, Kitwe.
One of the Lucky ...
8 reels of various scenes in South Africa and Kenya, 1950s. Places include Nyeri, East London, Ciskei, Stutterheim. Also some ...
The South African Army at war.
Film showing: the departure of troops to Kenya; how the equipment was provided; ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, ...
A record of a safari in East Africa.
The 5th Battalion King's East African Rifles returning from a route march. Government ...
AMATEUR record of an expedition in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film concetrates on the baiting of a ...
AMATEUR EXPEDITION film made by Glen Kidston and set in East Africa showing members of a safari, a rhinoceros, lions ...
No main title. "Owing to rains having set in we decide to go ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in ...
Story of an Englishman involved with the Mau Mau in Kenya.
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
Traces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and ...
The sisal industry in British East Africa. Gathering and transporting the sisal leaves, extracting the fibre by machine, washing, drying, ...
Journeys by dhow from Kuwait to East Africa and back, filmed in 1936-38 and 1946.
ORIGINAL COLOUR FOOTAGE FOR LAST SECTION OF SONS OF SINBAD: EAST AFRICA, SOUTH ARABIAN SHORE, KUWAIT
The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
Historical introduction (tea in China, its arrival in Europe, etc.) followed by the presentation of tea industry in East Africa; ...
START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
Three men doing different kinds of work done by Christian missionaries in Kenya. First man is a missionary doctor on ...
INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.
Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the ...
A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Kenya's first two years of war.
Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps ...
Story of Arab traders' seduction of Galana tribesmen from their peaceful ways and the efforts of a game warden to ...
Story of the efforts of a Game Warden in East Africa to preserve wild animals in his territory.
A famous murder case among Kenya's British colonial society in the 1940s.
3 x Edited films. 'Local leave': record of holiday journey through East Africa. Map shows journey: from Uganda through Kenya, ...
Young adventuress' machinations and final doom while fortune hunting in darkest Africa.
The Dugmore-Harris expedition to East Africa which was made to photograph wildlife in its natural surroundings. From a hide by ...