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Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, following the experiences of a new cadet.
A 16 year old boy on ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong ...
Short documentary, with a recruiting aim, showing the work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
"The Space Age ...
Documentary showing life in the Women's Royal Naval Service, described by Wrens in their own words.
The demands and ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, focusing on the "Dragon Squadron", based in Hong Kong. The Dragon Squadron is responsible ...
Film showing the variety of roles in the Royal Navy by illustrating four seamen, each working in a ...
The background to the Pearce Commission Report on Rhodesia.
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out ...
The rle of medical staff in the Royal Navy.
The various kinds of medical staff in the Navy are ...
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... ...
Short documentary about RAF Transport Command's regular flights to the Far East narrated by (and starring) Jon Rollason.
Reporter ...
The variety and responsibility of life in the WRAF.
Airwomen of the WRAF are introduced at an Operation Flight ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ...
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an ...
Naval publicity and recruitment film.
The hero, Terry Gardner, is discontented with his job on a building site, where ...
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.
A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.
DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.
Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far ...
Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, ...
The construction of the Kariba Dam; opening by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother 17/5/60; removal of wildlife from the affected area ...
'Adventure' film and indirect recruiting appeal for the British Army.
Two soldiers, Jeff Woodley and Kip Dormer, relax with ...
An account of a typical days work by an English policeman in a provincial city - Leicester.
How the Govt. of Singapore has set about the gigantic problem of housing Hong ko ng's swelling population.
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...
The work and living conditions of the scientists who man the seven bases set up in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. ...
"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien ...
A film depicting the Caribbean islands - West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras - and highlighting the traditional customs ...
DOCUMENTARY. The people, resources and industries of British Guiana.
RL.1 Credits (78). A chart showing the location of Guyana, the 'El ...
Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
"One of the greatest tasks facing many countries today is to give back to the land its lost ...
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives ...
Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.
The development of the Falkland Islands dependencies under British administration; the lives of the men stationed there.
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; ...
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.
The film shows: how people from many races have settled ...
A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.
Over footage ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...