... 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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... 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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... , 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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... 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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... -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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... 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 ...
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AMENU'S CHILD 1950
... 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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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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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.
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... 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 ...
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... 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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BEER AT ITS BEST 1955
... .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
... 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 ... -
BIKANER 1934
... . 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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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).
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CARIBBEAN 1951
... 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 ...
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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.
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CHISOKO THE AFRICAN 1949
... ;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 ...
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... sacks of mail and sorting them into piles.
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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INTEREST. The production of copper in Northern Rhodesia. Welfare facilites provided for the mining communities, including the towns of Mufulira, N'Kana, Ndola and Chingola.
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DISTRICT OFFICER 1945
... 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 ... -
DUNLOP IN MALAYA 1955
... 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 ... -
EASTERN ROSE 1942
... 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 ... -
... ’. ‘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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... young children walk toward the building. Shots of the children entering the school building. Caption "the F.A.U undertook various welfare and occupational programmes, including a school in one of the camps": more shots of the children entering the school ...
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FROM CANE TO CUBE 1950
... 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 ...
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... 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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... 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 ...
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Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at St. Anthony's Hospital, Kawimbe, including maternity, child welfare, ante- and post-natal clinics, and with leprosy patients.
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... 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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... crowd gathered outside a building. A sign reads 'Hong Kong Social Welfare Case Work Centre'. Pan from sign to waiting people ... buildings (2) civilians clearing rubble, tramworkers and trams, social welfare work and a hospital (3) views of the harbour and of ...
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I WILL SPEAK ENGLISH 1954
...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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... . Recently they conducted an enquiry on the subject of children's welfare in India by means of a questionnaire which was warmly welcomed ... , and visits to Peshawar and Rawalpindi.
II. CHILDREN'S WELFARE CONFERENCE - Sponsored by the national Council of ...
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... shown by the Excellencies in the working of this important Institution shows how earnest they are for the welfare of the cultivators of the Province
III. SIND MINISTERS INSPECT FIGHTING FORCES - Cabinet ministers and ...
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... 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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... 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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... calls a Conference of Provincial Governors at New Dehli. II. SIR HOMI MEHTA ABROAD WITH THE INDIAN TROOPS". Sir Homi inspects welfare arrangements for Indian troops in Cairo as part of an extensive tour of the Mediterranean. III. "MANY NOTABLES RETURN TO ...
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... 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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... Indians cast their votes in the Central Assembly elections, for the first time in eleven years. III. "GWALIOR'S POST WAR PROGRAMME FOR INDUSTRY AND WELFARE". Lord and Lady Wavell visit Gwalior and are accompanied to sites of interest by the Maharaja.
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... . 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 ... -
... list with over forty news events – divided by ‘war’, ‘social’, ‘people’s welfare’, ‘historical’, ‘sport’, ‘political’, and ‘miscellaneous’ – that had ...
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... 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 ... -
... of his life" while the pictures of the congregation "portrays the Sikhs in all the dignity which is their mark".
III. "WELFARE WORKERS TOIL FOR SLUM DWELLERS" Provision of sanitary and food care for slum children at a Lucknow Health Centre. Scenes ...
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