... [possibly temple] bears the name HRH Princess Alexandra. Oriental architectural shots. Kai Fong Association shown (benevolent welfare organisation originating in Hong Kong). Ornate signage close to harbour reads 'Sea Palace', more shots of harbour, shops ...

...  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 ...

... , 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 ...

... Station’ near Mount Elgon. It is noteworthy that both the control projects he was part of did not have the welfare of local people as a primary concern, and rather were focussed on protecting the staff and workers on projects relating to the colonial ...

...  (Colonial Office, 1957, 144). Indeed, while the Units produced a number of health films and others on social welfare and development, there was a noticeable emphasis on ceremonial and political events within their output.

Western and ...

... 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 ...

... 2500 people.

(Reel 5) Living and working conditions on the Island are illustrated - stores management, laundry, cooking, camp newspaper, welfare provisions, church, and the two WVS sisters (the only females on the island). In October the first work ...

... a wooden leg - work party of women volunteers doing embroidery - welfare clinic for mothers and babies/ examination of baby. - mothers being given talk about hygiene, etc. - Arusha - Clinic - welfare clinic for mothers and babies - Tanga Division HQ - ...

RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

Training and welfare at Kariba, the K.A.R. leaves Zomba for Lusaka, Chief Rozani ... College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Lady Benson visits new homecraft centre, training welfare officers. RM 2535

Great Britain

Some of the hospitals, child-welfare classes, schools, teacher-training colleges, etc., run by the Anglican churches and missions in the five dioceses of Central Africa (including Zanzibar). Also includes footage of a leper settlement; a ...

... , 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’ ...

... 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 ...

South Africa

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.

... .

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 ...

... of the seedlings being prepared in the nursery and planted in the fields, the clone being grafted on and the production of sheet rubber. The welfare of the workers. The film ends on a gloomy note: "since the end of the Korean war prices have fallen and so ...

... 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 ...

...

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 ...

Some aspects of Singapore's social welfare services in a story centred on Yoke Heng, whose parents enter a hospital. How he and his brothers and sisters are cared for until the family is reunited in a new municipal flat.

... 000 members of the Bakiga tribe to unoccupied fertile areas. Funded by the British taxpayer through the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, the move was presented as a case study of British development within African agricultural society. The new area ...

... 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 ...

Malaya

The welfare of the blind in Malaya: showing children at work and play in special schools for the blind; the training of blind craftmens; and the various occupations in which blind people are employed. The production of Braille reading matter, ...

Malaya

An account of welfare services and educational facilities available to the children of the Federation of Malaya. Ante- and post-natal clinics ensure a good start in life; and at school the children have every opportunity to develop their ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ), 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... begun in February 1949 with a 35mm unit stationed in Nairobi. Finance was secured under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act for a year, with the hope that local governments would subsequently assume responsibility. However, Rosaleen Smyth indicated ...

... 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 ...

... ;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, ...

... 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 ...

Great Britain

A rubber plantation in Malaya, showing the production of rubber, and the welfare and living conditions of the workers.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... .

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)

...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... , 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...