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Under British rule from 1917, Tanganyika attained independence in 1961. It is now part of Tanzania.
Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
How a college education in Dar es-salaam is changing the lifestyle of Victor Kimeseru, a Masai tribesman from Tanganyika.
DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.
Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.
Production / Donor ...
INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...
Shows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
Leaving from Swiss (?) airport (Swiss flag flying), followed by views from airplane of coastline. East African local flora: collecting ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. A railway journey in Northern Tanzania (?) and waterfalls on the River Pangani.
No main title. Filmed from the ...
The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.
Four couples describe their holidays:- Kariba/Eastern Highlands, Lake Nyasa, Victoria Falls, Lake Tangyanika.
1. Views of game in Tanganyika.
2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.
3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.
4. Film of ...
Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The ...
Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of ...
Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.
A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and ...
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown ...
Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The film shows the role of the chief in ...
This film includes footage of building work going on in Kisumu docks, a family Christmas, sailing boats racing on a ...
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...
Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.
A FILM PROMOTING THE WORK OF THE RSPCA
Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.
Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in ...
Emphasises the need for improvement of social conditions and closer integration of all races in East Africa to enable Africans ...
Wildlife in Serengeti National Park. Sign posts in Park. Giraffes Leopards in trees. Vultures. Savanah countryside Visit to Park by ...
Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in ...
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 cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; ...
On the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war ...
Amateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black ...
Lumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an ...
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...
A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.