Footage taken in Tanganyika between 1950-1962
Production / Donor Details: This collection was filmed by George Ingram, who went from Aberdeen to Tanganyika in 1950 to become a Lecturer in Electrical Studies at Mosh Trade School, ...
Footage taken in Tanganyika between 1950-1962
Production / Donor Details: This collection was filmed by George Ingram, who went from Aberdeen to Tanganyika in 1950 to become a Lecturer in Electrical Studies at Mosh Trade School, ...
DOCUMENTARY. A personal report on the year 1965 by James Cameron.
Main title over stills of James Cameron and events of the year (00:25). Cameron introduces the programme outlining the major ...
Variety special, with documentary elements which looks at the preparation of a show for the troops stationed in the Falklands
Life in Rhodesia seems ideal to the Sloans but the arrival of an African fugitive causes a crisis.
I. Video of crossing point at Gibraltar with docks, security vehicles and a Naval Provost.
II. Video of a view of Gibraltar Point and the security police checkpoint at Gibraltar airport.
III. Video of Royal ...
Unedited video showing a number of roles of the Joint Police Unit in Gibraltar.
The Naval Police and Royal Military Police carry out day and evening patrol duties in a Military Police ...
Documentary about the Westland Wessex V helicopter, seen in action in Borneo; also features Gurkhas in action.
Film about RAF, and especially Transport Command, in the Far East.
The only means of supplying troops in the jungle is by parachute drop or helicopter. Beverley para-drops supplies - need for precision to avoid ...
Various shots Institute of Administration in Zaria, and mature students preparing for & taking part in an exercise 'Operation Hiltops'. The trainees set off for a number of remote villages in the Kauru hills and their experiences ...
Various shots of trainees from the Institute of Administration departing from the village of Kono after a celebration of music and dancing by the villagers in the students' honour.
Training Camp sequence of students ...
The film shows students of the Administrative Service Training Course during the 1961 census at Karaye in Kano Province at which the students trained and supervised the enumerators. Various shots of the camp at Karaye rest house ...
The Outward Bound School at Kurra Falls on Jos Plateau in Central Nigeria:
abseiling, obstacle course, and swimming lessons.
Different students on attachment with district officers - I) Maiduguri District Office, 2) ...
1: Domestic scenes during Christmas in Honiara, the Solomon Islands.
2: Family on holiday in England, in the hills & amongst sheep. 3: Scenes in the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, including The Queen's Birthday Regatta, a School ...
1: Marriage of Governor's PA & ADC (Islanders)
2: New Zealand family footage. 3: Official tours with welcoming ceremonies, dancing & beach scenes - Tuvalu, Viatupu & the Britten - Norman Islands.
4: Collecting & ...
Various fairwells - 1. Goodbye visit to Taborio School. 2. Dancing displays at Maneabas. 3. Departure from Embassy by London taxi. 4. Official goodbuy at airport by the Cabinet & Ieremia Tabai (future President). 5. A family ...
1. Mr. J. Smith teaching island boys how to sail traditional craft.
2. A scout camp for island boys.
Production / Donor Details: John Smith began his career in the Colonial Service in Nigeria. He was the Course ...
The history and development of the site - a new township for industrial working blacks.
About the Kawelka, New Guinea highlanders.
The first election in Kenya; interviews with R.G. Ngala, Jomo Kenyatta and Thomas Joseph Mboya.
A detailed study of African town and village life showing the work of the Methodist Mission in three main areas, Nairobi, the highlands and the coastal region, commemorating 100 years of Methodism in Kenya.
Action adventure based on H. Rider Haggard's novel. Jessie Huston hires famed adventurer Allan Quatermain to trace her father who has disappeared during an African expedition.
Sir Henry Curtis, Allan Quatermain and Captain Goode set of to explore the unexplored regions of darkest Africa. Many dangers befall the group in search of treasure - Savage natives, volcanic eruptions, giant prehistoric ...
Kenya, 1950. A white policeman takes in a murdered black priest's son to live with him and his wife as a houseboy, or "kitchen toto".
A look at the Metro-Cammell factory in Birmingham which designs and builds a variety of metro trains, looking in particular at the planning and building of the 'Kowloon Connection', a metro system between Hong Kong and Kowloon. The designing and ...
Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...
Queen's Birthday celebrations 1962 with various European and African dignitaries. Baby Michael learning to walk. Holiday footage at the seaside.
Production / Donor Details: Mr King served with the Bechuanaland Protectorate ...
1.Air views of the bush. 2. Chobe Game Researve Elephant & Giraffe from air. 3. Gymkhana: sack race, children learning to ride, bareback race by adults on ponies. 4. Volkswagen van travelling through countryside, Norton to ? Bungalow ...
1. Spectacular views of the Victoria Falls. Some poor visibility due to spray. Shows both the Falls, the canyon and the rainbow created by the spray.
2. Exterior views of an older style wooden bungalow set in the area of the Falls. ...
Mainly family footage including - African coast line, baby on beach, sea birds and vultures, European school's sports day (Francistown) European sports club - showing golf, cricket and bowls taking place.
Production / Donor Details ...
Hong Kong 1997. A man returns to his place of birth to find work but, unable to find a job, he decides to help others emigrate. A street cleaner seeking a better life becomes his first client.
A travelogue advertising Rhodesia as a tourist destination. Main scenes include wildlife in game reserves, Victoria Falls, the ruins of Zimbabwe (presented as a "mystery"), and the Matapos Hills. The Kariba Dam is also shown, with ...
Documentary about the penguins (gentoo, Magellan, rockhopper and king) that use the Falkland Islands as a breeding ground and the other sealife that prey on them.
Marking the independence of Zambia in 1964, the aspects of the country, its potential as a devleoping country and something of its people.
Wildlife adventure in an African game reserve.
Two-part documentary about the life and work of Jackie Pullinger, who works among Triads addicted to heroin in Hong Kong's Walled City.
The first of two programmes which aim to show that top Shell and BP executives may have committed criminal offences through their involvement in keeping Rhodesia supplied with oil, thus breaking the sanctions imposed by the ...
The building of Kyle dam and its effects on the sugar industry.
A look at life on Ascension Island.
The story of David Livingstone's life up to the conclusion of his great trans-African journey, during which he discovered the Victoria Falls and most of the course of the Zambesi. Includes scenes of his birth-place, the mill in which he ...
Dramatised account of the mugging of a mineworker on his way home from work.
The Battle of Goose Green and the march on Port Stanley.
The rle of medical staff in the Royal Navy.
The various kinds of medical staff in the Navy are introduced - medical assistants (HMS Dido), medical officers, medical technicians and RN nurses. "Imagine yourself in ...
China threatens to relinquish the Patten blueprint on Hong Kong. In Hong Kong there are concerns about post-1997 civil rights. These form the backdrop to the 1995 elections which turn out to be a victory for democracy - and for Patten. But ...
Hank Wangford, and his band the Lost Cowboys, travel to the Falkland Islands during Camp Sports week to meet real cowboys and find there an unexpected die-hard passion for country and western music. Wangford also encounters ...
Wildlife
Production / Donor Details: Collection shot by Bill Langridge, a Vet working for the World Health Organisation from the 1930s in Kenya.
Scenes in Malaya, 1956
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he ...
