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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
Scenes in Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, 1957-69
Production / Donor Details: The film was shot by Terence Leslie William ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ...
Nigerian troops on parade; family scenes.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial ...
TRAVELOGUE.
Rl. 1. Aerial shot of Lagos; Ibadhan - University College Hospital; fishing village near Port Harcourt; village funeral rite; village ...
General impression of the Sahara city of Kano, culminating in the concluding festival of the Moslem Ramadhan.
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via ...
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.
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 ...
The Ministerial procession at Lagos with the appointment of Nigeria's first Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on the eve of ...
A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.
Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in ...
ACTUALITY. Local chieftains at an official function in Nigeria.
The Emir's palace and town street scenes in Zaria, Nigeria
Procession involving the Etsu of Nupe; shots of life in the town of Bida, Nigeria
Short documentary about the game of football.
Opening with Cup Final (Wolves 3, Leicester 1), film shows football being ...
A study of Northern Nigeria as it prepares for self-government.
The commentator introduces Africa as the 'continent of the future' before ...
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince Henry and Princess Alice, on a tour of Eastern Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons ...
The Dudley family sail to Nigeria by passenger ship in 1957, and drive by car to their residence up-country. The ...
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
The World Health Organisation at work in Bolivia, Nigeria and Burma.
Celebrations, attended by the Princess Royal, to mark the introduction of self-government in Western Nigeria in November 1957.
The film opens ...
'Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, ...
An African boy and his girl in a small village in Nigeria, and impact of Westernisation due to coming of ...
A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to ...
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on ...
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and ...
The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.
General picture of the country showing its economic, political and social progress.
Film of the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Nigeria.
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 ...
No.1 Deals with the nutritional importance of palm oil and palm kernels. Depicts also West African life in the rain ...
Documentary describing the rapid growth of the Nigerian palm oil trade.
A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ...
Survey of the peoples, customs and economy of Nigeria.
Travelogue of Nigeria. Includes Kano airport, Kano town - the mosque and ...
The making of Star lager from Nigeria.
The film opens with the Star lager trademark as local music plays. As three ...
January 7th 1955. An announcement by Chief Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria at the radio station? He ...
The operation of a mechanical workshop (PWD IJORA) which repairs government machinery and property in Nigeria.
The operation of the PWD Sawmill in Nigeria.
The election and appointment of the new archbishop of West Africa, James Lawrence Horstead of Freetown, Sierra Leone who replaced ...
ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the ...
Record of the operation to separate the Siamese twins from Africa.
SIR BRYAN * SHARWOOD-SMITH> KNIGHTS THE EMIR OF KANO, ALHAJI MUHAMMADU * SANUSI>
The planning and building of the University College of Ibadan and its opening ceremony.
Missionary work in Nigeria. The difficulties of facing Third World development, in a religious context. The film shows the problems ...