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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.
The film opens with shots of ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
Survey of the peoples, customs and economy of Nigeria.
Travelogue of Nigeria. Includes Kano airport, Kano town - the mosque and ...
'Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, ...
The operation of the PWD Sawmill in Nigeria.
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, ...
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on ...
ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk ...
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and ...
three parts:- Animal Feeding Men of the Mersey Matadi Palm
The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
At Udi in Nigeria.
Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection ...
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince Henry and Princess Alice, on a tour of Eastern Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons ...
The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
The election and appointment of the new archbishop of West Africa, James Lawrence Horstead of Freetown, Sierra Leone who replaced ...
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife ...
Scenes in Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, 1957-69
Production / Donor Details: The film was shot by Terence Leslie William ...