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    Mowat Collection

    The film starts off with a village 'western style' wedding, and pans to beach and reef. It then shows the use local people make of the sea and beach i.e. children playing, adults cooking by means of beach fires, catching fish and ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    Various scenes of a young European woman arriving at the airstrip, being greeted And being shown the Islands by her family. It includes beach scenes and a wedding of a local couple.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Mowat was a ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    This film shows children in a convent school playing various games and local people in a village cooking and eating food around a fire. The last frames are at the airport.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Mowat was a Christian ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    Picnic with students on a beach and pig roasting activities. The film is shot as a narritive with the beach becoming dark, women beside a building looking out towards the beach and the preperations for the picnic i.e. palm trees being ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    This is a visual diary of the flight from Heathrow Airport, London to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. It includes take off and landing shots and aerial views of an east coast airport, USA, San Fransisco, Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    This film shows scenes of life in The Gilbert and Ellice Islands including a wedding,local people singing and dancing , collecting and cooking food and various buildings in small communities. Most of the film is of the Islanders with ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    A visual diary of a tour around some of the islands of the Gilbert Island group, including flights, ferries and local scenes in villages and on beaches.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Mowat was a Christian missionary.

     
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    Mowat Collection

    Last day in the Islands: scenes of two picnics with Islanders and European family, preparing food, eating and dancing. It also shows scenes at the airport with students.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Mowat was a Christian ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    The film shows a village on one of the islands including scenes of the beach and general village and family life such as children playing, and villagers cleaning and preparing food.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Mowat was ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    This film shows teaching practice students working in St. Peter's school. It shows various activities during the day including their arrival at the school, children working in the classroom, performing traditional songs and dances, and ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    The film depicts the loading of a small craft in order to transport goods to the main vessel. It then switches to scenes on board with passengers swimming from the main deck and children reading and then proceeds to the boat weighing ...

     
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    Mowat Collection

    Shots of a village and its occupants. Cuts to a plane landing on an air strip, taxying to a stand still, the island itself taken from the plane as it is flying and ends as the plane begins its descent at its destination point.

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    NAKED PREY 1965

    USA, South Africa

    African Safari adventure film: a hunting expedition comes to grief when they fail to placate the natives. But the leader escapes, and reaches the British camp with the natives at his heels.

     
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    A record of the celebrations organised for the independence of Papua New Guinea 16th September 1975.

    Village life, history of the people and colonisation. A brass band. An interview with a German settler. Archive footage of missionary work and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Special royal gala show recorded at the Coliseum Theatre in London attended by The Prince of Wales.

     
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    GB

    Amateur record shot by young Able Seaman Richard Carver, when serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East in 1962-1965, records off-duty scenes in Singapore and on nearby Snake Island, and naval search party boarding local vessel Naga Mas off Sarawak ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ADENGB

    Army patrols in city of Aden conduct house searches and check driver's identity papers. Except at the beginning of the reel, there is little evidence of naval participation.

    A sailor ...

     
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    GB

    I. Scenes onboard Royal Navy submarine.

    II.Seeking and destroying enemy aircraft by ship launched missile system.

    III. Royal Marine Commandos attack and successfully destroy an enemy radar system.

    IV.Urgent supplies are ferried by ...

     
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    NEW ACRES 1964

    Rhodesia

    Looks at the land development officer and the implementation of the Land Husbandry Act and other improvements, such as drainage, that can be made on the land.

     
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    Describes the British involvement in the construction of the new double track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour to the Chinese border.

     
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    Great Britain

    How the Birmingham branch of the Co-operative movement is helping to ralse $30,0 00 to start consumer co-ops in Bechuanaland

     
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    David Dimbleby interviews Sir Donald and Lady Cleland, Close up of questions.

     
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    Disabled village children and parents, showing the need for a home.

     
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    Film of a Cheshire Home in Port Moresby, New Guinea.

     
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    Great Britain

    Leonard Cheshire's first visit to New Guinea.

     
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    Rhodesia

    A film showing Ian Smith's address to Rhodesia on his 'new initiative' to bring Africans into government. The Prime Minister the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith - Ian Smith is seen seated at a microphone and talks about the "Communist aim of controlling ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Shows how the market place, symbol of West African trade, gives way to a new pattern of trading, and how Western techniques of merchandising influences village life, changing the habits, customs and outlook of the peoples of Nigeria and ...

     
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    Rhodesia

    The No. 1 Mrewa Club from Salisbury perform 3 African dances.

     
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    WORLD IN ACTIONGreat Britain

    A follow-up to WORLD IN ACTION: LIABLE TO PROSECUTION about Shell and BP's involvement in illegal oil exports to Rhodesia. Looks more closely at the smokescreens used to try and cover up the sanctions breach. The history of ...

     
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    NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTIONGB

    Interviews with Gibraltar commander and with the Chief Minister.

    Notes

    Remarks: tape labelled "master".

     
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    NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTIONGB

    HAC (Honourable Artillery Company) 21-gun salute.

     
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    NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTIONGB

    Beach landings, interview with "Burton", recruits.

     
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    NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTIONGB

    Commander, North Ireland Horse. FIBUA (Fighting in Built Up Areas) - interview with officer in charge of the FIBUA exercise.

    Notes

    Remarks: tape labelled "master".

     
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    GB

    Film showing the rle of nurses in the Royal Navy; includes sequences in Gibraltar and Malta; also features are the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (McDonnell Douglas Phantom fighters) and HMS Euryalus.

     
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    GB

    Film showing the work of navy support including unloading a tanker and associated procedures.

    Notes

    Part only

     
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    GB

    Information film about the Falklands Islands, the Falklands War and subsequent military presence, concentrating on processes for bring in fuel for the garrison.

     
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    GB

    Information film about naval support on Ascension Island with footage of oil tanker, building works, harbour and laboratory.

     
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    ODYSSEYGreat Britain

    Monthly series of travel and exploration documentaries. This edition visits the elephant training camps in Northern Thailand; a trip to the australian outback to follow a man's search for gold; a look at the Sakkudei of Indonesia; ...

     
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    Central African Federation

    Jim and Jane tour Rhodesia.

     
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    GB

    Amateur record shot by young Able Seaman Richard Carver, when serving on HMS Victorious in 1960-1962, records Gibraltar tourist scenes, passage through Suez Canal, and tourist scenes in Malta, Capetown and on RN recreation island Pulau Tioman (off ...

     
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    OLD AGE 1970

    FAMILY OF MAN

    The problems of old age and social attitudes towards old people in Colne, Lancashire; Esher, Surrey; Buk, New Guinea; Heri, India; and Khegudi, Botswana. It aims to identify the ideas of old age that are common to all cultures: the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Lime juice production. Made to mark the centenary of the sponsoring firm, L. Rose & Co. Ltd., The sponsor's estates on the island of Dominica where limes are grown and processed.

    In 1966 Dominica was on the brink of major ...

     
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    GB

    Navy Instructional film, set in Hong Kong, on the threat from sabotage attacks. Areas of particular risk, such as warzones or politically unstable countries, are noted. The methods that a saboteur might use are shown, including underwater attack by ...

     
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    COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES LYMPSTONE

    Eighth part of a narrative history of 3 Commando Royal Marines involvement in Operation Corporate (the Falkland Islands Campaign). This is a subsidiary part featuring SITREPS (Situation Reports) from ...

     
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    COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES LYMPSTONE

    Eighth part of a narrative history of 3 Commando Royal Marines involvement in Operation Corporate (the Falkland Islands Campaign).

     
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    COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES LYMPSTONE

    Fifth part of a narrative history of 3 Commando Royal Marines involvement in Operation Corporate (the Falkland Islands Campaign).

     
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    COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES LYMPSTONEGB

    Fourth part of a narrative history of 3 Commando Royal Marines involvement in Operation Corporate (the Falkland Islands Campaign). This is a subsidiaray part featuring SITREPs (Situation Reports) from ...

     
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    COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES LYMPSTONEGB

    Fourth part of a narrative history of 3 Commando Royal Marines involvement in Operation Corporate (the Falkland Islands Campaign).