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A picture of the contribution made to Britain's war effort by people from Newfoundland.
The film, which has throughout ...
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
The courage and service of the British merchant seaman, typified by the story of a Newfoundlander who had ...
Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.
The historic past, cultural and economic present and potential future of Palestine are all portrayed as (mainly implicit) ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens ...
Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, ...
Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
Documentary on the war in Burma.
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of ...
The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at ...
The background to the Pearce Commission Report on Rhodesia.
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) ...
The work and living conditions of the scientists who man the seven bases set up in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. ...
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out ...
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 ...
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...
Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
King George VI visits Malta in June, 1943, after visiting the troops in North Africa.
'This film is presented ...
"One of the greatest tasks facing many countries today is to give back to the land its lost ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, following the experiences of a new cadet.
A 16 year old boy on ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...
Short documentary about RAF Transport Command's regular flights to the Far East narrated by (and starring) Jon Rollason.
Reporter ...
Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far ...
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.
The film shows: how people from many races have settled ...
An explanation of the background to the War in the Far East and of its probable strategic development, ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Libyan campaign of 1940-41 in which General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
r.1 British military cemetery in ...
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...
I. 'TRANSJORDAN TREATY SIGNED.' Emir Abdullah of Transjordan arrives in Britain by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Avro York airliner ...
I. 'TRAGEDY IN JERUSALEM.' An item covering the aftermath of the bombing of the King David Hotel (HQ of the ...