INTEREST. Railways in Nyassaland.

Titles for series. (9) Iris opens on a map of Africa highlighting the area. (31) CU area around Beira. (58) CU same area with railway lines mapped out. (78) Main titles for this film. (87) Intertitles explain the history of the railway. (158) "Departure from Blantyre". (162) MCU train engine, two Africans on the footpath. Camera pans to Africans waiting in the station. (173) View from the front of the train as it proceeds through bushland. (201) "Limbe" (203) African children watch as the train approaches the town. (217) MS pulling into the station. (251) "Railway repair shops". (254) HAS engines being worked on in a railyard. (276) MS team of African workers at one engine with European men supervising. (290) MCU one man at controls of a different engine in the yard. (304) CU man in a turban, an African and a European working on a piece of equipment. (313) Views along the line. (316) The bush viewed from a moving train. (351) "The Zoa River Valley" (355) MS from the front of the train. (398) "The Zoa River" (403) Various shots of the river flowing through rocks. (450) "The Falls of Zoa" (498) MS train crossing the bridge followed by three Africans. (542) The view from the front of the engine crossing the bridge. (564) and going through bushland. (575) "Port Herald". (579) MS train engine passes Port Herald station. (590) MS pedestrians in a street. (596) PAN of river. (605) "Native engine drivers." (608) HAS two Africans on the footplate of an engine viewed from the wood trailer behind them. (621) "Valley of Zui Zui River". (625) View from the front of the train (some nitrate damage). (655) "Railway bridge over the Zui Zui River. (659) MS train crossing. (686) "The Zui Zui Railway Bridge is half a mile in length" (690) Iris opens on the view from the front of the engine as the train proceeds. (711) "Chindio" (714) View from the front of the train as it arrives in Chindio. (736) "To link up Nyassaland Railway with the line from Beira to the Zambesi, a bridge across the Zambesi will have to be built. (747) The train approaches the end of the line, the Zambesi is visible in the background. (761) MS large river, a building in the foreground. (774) MS Africans at the shoreline. Camera pans to a boat at its mooring. (805) Iris opens on a HAS landscape with the river in the background. (835)

Note: Blantyre, Limbe and Port Herald (now called Nsange) are in Nyasaland (now Malawi). The Zambesi river, Chindio and Beira are in Mozambique.