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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
Short documentary about the game of football.
Opening with Cup Final (Wolves 3, Leicester 1), film shows football being ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new ...
January 7th 1955. An announcement by Chief Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria at the radio station? He ...
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots ...
A study of Northern Nigeria as it prepares for self-government.
The commentator introduces Africa as the 'continent of the future' before ...
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa ...
A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to ...
30 reels of various footage taken in Nigeria. Large proportion of footage shows public works.
Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and ...
DRAMA. A love story of two generations.
R.1 Dr. Martin Sumner, a Victorian country doctor and early motor enthusiast, meets Dora ...
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via ...
Documentary looking at the work done at the Guild Hospital to help orphans, lepers and the work done in `the ...
General picture of the country showing its economic, political and social progress.
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 ...
I. "THE EMIR OF KATSINA COMES TO INDIA TO SEE HIS WEST AFRICAN TROOPS" The Muslim Emir of Katsina (on ...
No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the ...
Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.
The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. ...
Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.
South Africa: various scenes. Kenya. Safari. Nigeria: Market in Lagos (Lewis Street)?
INTEREST. Record of a journey in Africa, possibly in Nigeria.
No titles. Europeans stand by a train (1 frame). Logs seen ...
The operation of a mechanical workshop (PWD IJORA) which repairs government machinery and property in Nigeria.
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, ...
An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.
A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation ...
Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...
(1) Ocean voyage home from Pateau in 1939 in M.V. Accra. with visits to Maderia which show the local scenery ...
Footage of local life in Southern Nigeria.
Travelogue. Scenes in Northern Nigeria. A compilation of footage taken from other films (see note at end of synopsis).
No titles. ...
Production footage for a film about a journey down the River Niger, Africa.
No titles. LS man scaling down a palm ...
A journey along the West African coast to Lagos and scenes in Lagos.
No main title. "At sunrise we arrive off ...
A series of shots of the Niger Company's, J. Walkden's and W.B. McIver's buildings in Nigeria, usually consisting of a ...
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 ...
Film of the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Nigeria.
The Ministerial procession at Lagos with the appointment of Nigeria's first Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on the eve of ...
BP film featuring footage from Nigeria.
The passing out parade of the first Nigerian women's police. Also shows the policewomen on duty.
The commentator introduces 'this historic ...
THE ELECTIONS TO SET UP REGIONAL LEGISLATURES IN NORTHERN, EASTERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA; AND THE MEETING OF THE NEW LEGISLATURES ...
The planning and building of the University College of Ibadan and its opening ceremony.
Amateur film showing native dances, markets and race meetings in Nigeria.
4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and ...
Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in ...