Gill Collection: 1 Area Engineer, Bamenda, Cameroons 1950s

This film is held by the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (ID: 2001/168/001).

Synopsis

Records footage of the various members of Mr Gill's staff, European and African, who worked in the Public Works Department of what is now the North-West Province of the Cameroon Republic.

It includes sequences of the maintenance and replacement of bridges on the road between the provincial headquarters town of Bamenda and the important town of Wum (bridges which became vital in the rescue work after the appalling volcanic eruption of Lake Nyos in 1986. Mr Gill visited them later that year and was delighted to see them still in service).

Production / Donor Details: Mr Gill was a Provincial Engineer in Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons between 1951 and 1960.

 

Titles

  • Gill Collection: 1 Area Engineer, Bamenda, Cameroons 1950s (Archive)
Series Title:
Gill Collection
 

Technical Data

Year:
1950
Running Time:
33 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
VHS
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
see timings on shot list screen
 

Production Credits

Production Details
See synopsis