...  responded to the film’s welfare message. Film User included ... Company emphasised its role in the welfare and development of Africa through other ... of Cleve, emphasised that ‘the welfare of these Africans and their families ...

... tensions in the colonial response. The narrative is at pains to point out that ‘the administration and church welfare organisation raised funds to build settlements and model villages’, but it also reveals that the colonial authorities looked ...

... , broadcasting on the BBC radio show ‘Calling West Africa’ and, with his interests ‘extended to social welfare and labour problems’, assumed ‘other responsibilities on behalf of the Colonial Office’ (Lambo, 1994, 158). ...

... Empire (largely avoiding the word ‘Empire’), in which the Africans assumed greater responsibility for their own welfare and government. This is evident in the film, which promotes African leadership and envisages modern (British taught) skills ...

... -Fly country’ – seemingly bypasses the largely illiterate local audience, and presents the scheme as evidence of the welfare work of the British in Africa.

The film addresses topics prevalent within other BEKE films, such as the ...

... Park steps off a motor launch and stumbles a little on a deck cleat. She gets into a car and is driven off to visit an RAF Welfare Centre. She samples the food on offer and meets 'Little Wings' a young Chinese boy 'adopted' by a local Spitfire unit, RAF ...

... and the Social Development branch of the Department of Social Welfare, at which they decided to co-operate in forming a Mass ... , promoted a form of colonial governance predicated on social welfare and hygiene.

Promotional materials and reviews ...

... measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937.

The film opens with ... camera pans to reveal people visiting the 'Infant welfare exhibition 1937'. The exhibition contains stalls showing ...

... Burma had led to a questions in Parliament about the provision of welfare services in the theatre. Consequently Lord Munster was ... reporting his findings to Parliament more resources were allocated to welfare services in South East Asia Command, and more ...

CINEMAGAZINE. Aborigines are forte of self-taught sculptor. Child welfare centre is boon in New Guinea. Plastic bowls show they run true to form. The history of duelling through the ages.

... for Colonel and Mrs. Lord; farewell to Viceroy Commissioned officers; Welfare farewell to Mrs. Lord.

Baluch Regimental sports. Patsy and ... Commissioned Officers - August 1946. Colonel and Mrs. Lord. "Welfare Farewell 1946 to Mrs Lord." Being met at the ...

... Batanagar. The company placed particular emphasis on the social welfare of workers, promoting education and mobility and a ... of a modern industrial company (with an emphasis on individual welfare) as it shows customers within a Bata shop, receiving pedicures ...

... .

The immediate post-war period saw the introduction of the ‘Ten Year Plan of Development and Welfare for Nigeria’ in 1946 and an increasing attempt by the British administration to establish import-substitution industries in Nigeria ...

... cases ‘a very recent development’, as housing opportunities were now partially funded by the Colonial Development and Welfare scheme. The housing was constructed and managed by the municipalities, yet Atkinson acknowledged that ‘only a ...

... . He oversaw the construction of the Ganga canal, which brought water to his rain deficient state. He also introduced a number of welfare schemes; developed hospitals and schools; introduced the first Chief Court in Rajasthan; and created a Representative ...

... .

Notes

Summary: Delivery note inside can and dated 26 November 1945 indicates film was sent by O.C. 13 Section AKS to County Welfare Officer, Dundee (although film is noted as CALLING BLIGHTY No. 131).

Hayes: VHS for donor please

... customs and songs, before showing the modern developments and welfare services available.

The film opens with a map as ... the town and local market, the film outlines the welfare developments provided by the British. This includes improvements to local ...

Great Britain

Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

... ;s sponsored books, but it also indicates an increasing emphasis on worker welfare, which was evident in post-war company reports. For ... of British development in Africa and emphasises the companies’ welfare work for its African employees. The film, ...

... effects of Federation after 1953. The end of the war had seen the implementation of the 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act, which committed the Government to spending on the improvement of working conditions for colonial workers (Cooper, 2004, 302 ...

... sacks of mail and sorting them into piles.

Notes

In all a well shot and well directed piece which emphasises the welfare and recreational provision for men in this theatre. This provision had been chronically poor earlier in the campaign but ...

... Sugar the most profitable crop. Cane cut and transported to mills by train and barge. Shots from river of villages. White welfare officer visits village and checks childrens teeth. Children running along the riverbank waving. Band march past in the ...

... Second World War (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006).

Lewis, Joanna, Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2000).

Parsons, Timothy, Race, Resistance, and ...