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This film includes footage of Kuta Belud airstrip, Kinabulu Mountain, extensive manoeuvres of the Royal Marines in Sabah, and scenes ...
Item 1: Footage of a UNIP (United National Independence Party, Northern Rhodesia) public meeting held in 1961 at Twapia Township, ...
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
European team tackle eradication of the fly which causes Onchoceriasis ('River Blindness'). Habitat of the fly and larvae. Exploration of ...
3 x Edited films. 'Local leave': record of holiday journey through East Africa. Map shows journey: from Uganda through Kenya, ...
Amateur footage of Harvard and Lincoln planes operating in Kenya. The film includes images of a bombing raid over the ...
Amateur film shot by Major William Rhodes James while serving with the 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles in ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram ...
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. ...
Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary ...
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon ...
Amateur film shot by a local Bahamian cameraman records the life in the Bahamas of the twenty English evacuee schoolboys ...
Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Doctor showing a variety of scenes in and around Mysore (Southern India) including festival ...
(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving ...
Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
INTEREST. "Darjeeling - summer seat of the Bengal government". A shot of the hill road to Darjeeling. Natives herd sheep. ...
Amateur footage, in black and white and colour, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, of her travels in ...
Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
"The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The ...