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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
Missionary work in Nigeria. The difficulties of facing Third World development, in a religious context. The film shows the problems ...
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
Multiple reels on DVD. Family wedding. Journey from South African to Lagos. Flight to Kaduna. Picnic near Kaduna. Kaduna Polo ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
THE INSTALLATION OF THE SARDANA OF SOKOTO> AS PREMIER OF NORTHERN NIGERIA AT KADUNA>, 1ST OCTOBER, 1954
Travelogue of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, highlighting the contrast between old and new methods. The film shows the development ...
How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.
The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as ...
No.1 Deals with the nutritional importance of palm oil and palm kernels. Depicts also West African life in the rain ...
Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British ...
INDUSTRIAL. The collection and manufacture of palm nuts and palm oil; travelling shots along the River Niger and its tributaries; ...
The World Health Organisation at work in Bolivia, Nigeria and Burma.
An African hospital.
The film covers the reception and treatment of a street accident case, with a glance at the X-ray ...
The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at ...
This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...
A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and ...
Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in ...
THE VISIT OF BRITAINS SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, OLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952
Documentary describing the rapid growth of the Nigerian palm oil trade.
Celebrations, attended by the Princess Royal, to mark the introduction of self-government in Western Nigeria in November 1957.
The film opens ...
A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a ...
Life and industries in Nigeria.
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
"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 ...