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  • WELFARE WITH ITS FINGER OUT (2/1944)

    WELFARE WITH ITS FINGER OUT (2/1944) 1944 has video enhanced entry

    ... 1944, 3).

    The work of the Cinema Welfare Unit and the presentation of cinema ... . The Cinema Welfare Unit subsequently became the Army Kinema Section and ... servicemen and the efficiency of its Welfare Units. It presents a clearly structured narrative ...

     
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    I WILL SPEAK ENGLISH 1954 has video enhanced entry

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    An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate ... ; such as the Police (‘Report on Department of Social Welfare and Community Development’, 1954, 15). The ...

     
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    HERE IS THE GOLD COAST 1947 has video enhanced entry

    ... Colonies, had presented a new Colonial Development and Welfare bill to the House of Commons in February 1945, which ... 1 February 1945, 2.

    ‘Colonial Development Grants To Encourage Welfare And Research’, The Times, 13 December ...

     
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    AMENU'S CHILD 1950 enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...

     
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    BATANAGAR COMPANY TOWN, INDIA 1939 enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...
     
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    LEARIE CONSTANTINE 1945 enhanced entry

    ... a piece of paper, apparently to illustrate his credentials as a welfare worker. Constantine is next shown on the factory floor, ... 1969 (Campbell, 2007, 116). 

    Learie Constantine: Welfare Worker and Cricketer illustrates the West ...

     
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    DUNLOP IN MALAYA 1955 enhanced entry

    ... throughout the world, Dunlop in Malaya prioritised the welfare work and progressive development programmes of the ... the colonial archive, which promote ideals of corporate welfare together with policies of colonial ‘development&rsquo ...
     
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    ANTI-PLAGUE OPERATIONS, LAGOS 1937 1937 has video enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...

     
  • WEST INDIES CALLING

    WEST INDIES CALLING 1943 has video enhanced entry

    ... Learie Constantine (the cricketer, then working as Welfare Officer for Ministry of Labour) who ... work as the Ministry of Labour’s Welfare Officer for the 200 Jamaican ... campaigned against this in his role as a welfare officer. Yet, here he talks of the ...
     
  • a NEW LIFE - SQUATTER RESETTLEMENT

    a NEW LIFE - SQUATTER RESETTLEMENT 1951 has video enhanced entry

    ... ), and then out on patrol. The welfare work of the British is again emphasised, ... importance of providing social services and welfare for the resettled population (Ramakrishna ... film places a huge emphasis on the welfare and development provided by the British ...
     
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    JUTE 1923 has video enhanced entry

    ... , 96-97).

    The Titaghur mill was a leader in worker welfare: in 1923 it was alone in starting a scheme to provide ... the film presents it as illustrative of a concern with family welfare.

    Although Jute aims to show Thomas Duff & ...

     
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    ACHIEVEMENT IN AFRICA 1960 enhanced entry

    ...  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 ...
     
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    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 74 (11/8/1944) 1944 enhanced entry

    ... girl for one rupee and then taken her to a welfare centre (Hansard, 17 February 1944).

    The final two items ... ;

    Indian News Parade 74 highlights the welfare work performed by the British in Bengal. Having already ...

     
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    MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE FIELD BY 82ND WEST AFRICAN DIVISION NEAR TAMANDU (26/3/1945) 1945 enhanced entry

    ... reports emphasised the medical attention and welfare work provided for the African ... also due largely to the work of medical welfare and sanitary staff and, indeed ... main purposes. First, it emphasises the British welfare, sanitation and medical care offered ...
     
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    the GEN NO 14 1945 has video enhanced entry

    ... to come to England. This rhetoric of British social welfare and paternal imperialism is particularly emphasised in ... used within The Gen as an example of the British welfare efforts within Burma. It represents a traditional British imperialism ...
     
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    CHISOKO THE AFRICAN 1949 enhanced entry

    ... ;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, ...
     
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    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 84 (20/10/1944) 1944 enhanced entry

    ... and South East Asia’. She suggested that the welfare amenities available in Europe, or to American soldiers in Burma, were ... two items, it also serves an essential function in highlighting the welfare work of the British in Burma and the care offered ...
     
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    JUNGLE FORT 1953 enhanced entry

    ... government emphasised both the operational success and the welfare developments provided through these forts. A newspaper ... Malaya and overseas. It highlights the proposed centrality of the welfare of the aborigines to its policies, showing the development ...
     
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    INFANT WELFARE CLINIC - ACCRA, GOLD COAST

     
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    INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWS NO 9 (1943-02) 1943 enhanced entry

    ... of India to healthy recreation. His greatest contribution to India's welfare was the fostering of communal harmony and concord. The ... of Polish refugees was evidently intended to highlight the welfare work of the British, and to generate support for the ...
     
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    INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWS NO 19 (1943-06-16) 1943 enhanced entry

    ... rsquo;, while the footage of Polish refugees again emphasises the welfare efforts of the British, in contrast to the treatment meted out by ... ’ being fed, though this is not part of British welfare operations but rather part of ‘India’s age- ...
     
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    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 135 (12/10/1945) 1945 enhanced entry

    ... new women’s hospital, stresses Britain’s ongoing social welfare plans in post-war India. Also included in the & ... over the Japanese and showing British and Indian co-operation in welfare work, the antagonistic anti-British sentiments of the event ...
     
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    MEN OF TWO WORLDS 1946 enhanced entry

    ... population density will make them easier to marshal for his welfare plans. We are looking here at a place where reformism meets ... film realises something like Cary’s vision of progress, a utopian welfare state, with natives in trucks going over a new ...
     
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    STILL WATERS: THE MENACE OF BILHARZIA 1948 has video enhanced entry

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    The farmer – with a financial interest in the welfare of his employees – does respond to the spread ... than the Africans themselves, who is responsible for their welfare.

    Tom Rice (March 2008)

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    ACHIEVEMENT IN HONG KONG 1958 has video enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...
     
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    AFRICAN CONFERENCE IN LONDON 1948 1948 has video enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...
     
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    AFRICAN PEASANT FARMS - THE KINGOLWIRA EXPERIMENT 1936 has video enhanced entry

    ... -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 ...

     
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    CHRISTIANITY AND COPPER 1956 enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...
     
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    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN AWGU DIVISION, NIGERIA 1949 enhanced entry

    ... as a historical record not just of the widespread community programmes introduced in Nigeria after the war through the Development and Welfare Act, but also of the ways in which the British sought to represent its own role in these developments. The film ...
     
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    EASTERN ROSE 1942 enhanced entry

    ... technology – for example, in the overhead cable – and the continuing local traditions. It further highlights the welfare opportunities provided for the workers’ families at the village schools. By 1945 there were 55 school co-operatives ...
     
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    FROM CANE TO CUBE 1950 has video enhanced entry

    ... imperial industrial process.

    The film attempts, in common with other industrial process films of the time, to promote the welfare aspects of the industry. The audience sees the West Indian worker in his bed at home with pictures of Hollywood ...

     
  • INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 62 (19/5/1944)

    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 62 (19/5/1944) 1944 has video enhanced entry

    ... Parachute for Indian Troops in Italy’ – as an example of the newsreel’s emphasis on the British welfare of Indians overseas. As he notes, footage of Indian troops in Italy was often used, in part because of the difficulties in obtaining ...
     
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    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 67 (23/6/1944) 1944 enhanced entry

    ... 67 emphasises the work of Indian troops overseas. As Philip Woods has shown, the film places a particular importance on the welfare of Indian troops, with the opening item showing members of the Defence Council visiting ‘our men in the hospitals ...
     
  • INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 91 (8/12/1944)

    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 91 (8/12/1944) 1944 has video enhanced entry

    ... ‘served…his fellow men’). Secondly, the film seeks to highlight the advances in medicine and the social welfare provided for the troops, through these blood transfusions. In particular here, the item stresses that blood transfusions are ...
     
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    MALAYA CELEBRATES 1953 enhanced entry

    ... the ‘civilised’ nature of the security forces (paying due respect and drinking together). Further scenes highlight the welfare work of the British (‘the old and poor were not forgotten either and free meals were given to many’) and ...
     
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    RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHT NO. 87 1959 has video enhanced entry

    ... , vets and agricultural officers threatened. This, then, is presented as an attack on British development, progress and social welfare. An attack that the commentator suggests was not widely supported (‘the sort of cooperation that prompted many ...
     
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    SOUTHERN RHODESIA `LAND OF SUNSHINE' 1946 enhanced entry

    ... , and when Africans are finally shown it is essentially as ethnographic subjects. The film offers little consideration of their welfare or social development, instead claiming that ‘many Southern Rhodesian Africans still live a tribal life. They are ...
     
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    THEY PLANTED A STONE 1953 has video enhanced entry

    ... which shows local children running to school. Once more, the film highlights here the broader social changes and welfare developments introduced by the British.

    Tom Rice (April 2009)

    ‘They Planted a Stone&rsquo ...

     
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    NIGERIA'S FIRST WOMEN POLICE 1956 has video enhanced entry

    ... , arms and riot drill, the woman studies social welfare’ (Annual Report, 1957, 157). This gender- ... seen in large towns assisting in directing traffic, working in juvenile welfare centres, and assisting schoolchildren to cross busy roads’ ...
     
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    AFRICA'S FIGHTING MEN 1943 has video enhanced entry

    ... , 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). ...
     
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    BEER AT ITS BEST 1955 has video enhanced entry

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    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 ...

     
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    BETTER HOMES 1948 enhanced entry

    ... 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 ...
     
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    BIKANER 1934 has video enhanced entry

    ... . 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 ...
     
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    DISTRICT OFFICER 1945 has video enhanced entry

    ... social, economic and ethnographic topics with titles like Tree of Wealth, Kisan, Rural Bengal, All India Radio, Child Welfare, and Country Craft (Holmes 1946). In 1948, the IFI was reconfigured into the new Indian state with the remit of ...
     
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    FAVOURITE FOR THE JAMAICA CUP 1913 enhanced entry

    ... ’. ‘For the good of the country and its people, especially the coloured race, all Jamaicans who have the welfare of their country at heart should rise as one and do something to prevent their country and themselves being shown to the world in ...
     
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    FUTURE OF ONE MILLION AFRICANS 1950 enhanced entry

    ... Britain’s publicly promoted liberal imperialism and came at a moment when Britain was increasing its expenditure on colonial welfare and development as well as seeking to retain influence and support within its African colonies. However, the British ...
     
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    GOLD COAST REVIEW NO. 2 1949 enhanced entry

    ... on training community leaders – the demonstration team in Togoland included a schoolmaster, a policeman, a medical assistant, and welfare officers – had a political function as well, as administrators hoped that incorporating an educated elite ...
     
  • INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 155 (1/3/1946)

    INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 155 (1/3/1946) 1946 has video enhanced entry

    ... . In a tribute delivered from the Delhi Station of All India Radio on 6 February 1946, General Sir Noel Beresford-Peirse, the Welfare General in India, stated, ‘The Red Eagles of the Fourth Indian Division are flying home at last. From to-day their ...