King George V and Queen Mary visit the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and see the miniature railway (108ft).
Note: See also 111ft offcuts under title (QUEEN MARY AT EXHIBITION).
King George V and Queen Mary visit the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and see the miniature railway (108ft).
Note: See also 111ft offcuts under title (QUEEN MARY AT EXHIBITION).
ACTUALITY. An amalgamation of two events featuring the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The opening of the exhibition by King George V (23/4/1925) and the royal visit with King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Rumania (14/5/ ...
INTEREST. Record of a journey in Africa, possibly in Nigeria.
No titles. Europeans stand by a train (1 frame). Logs seen floating in the sea. The sea can be seen stretching to the horizon. At another angle the land can be seen a a ...
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; the Sultan of Fallata; a ceremonial parade of Arab and Nuba chieftains.
Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.
Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - the influence of home'), the film next shows Livingstone studying medicine at ...
INTEREST. Scenes of African life in the Congo.
Main title (5). A mother sitting on the ground and surrounded by baskets tends her baby. She has decorative scarring on her back (41). CU of man's head with scarring on the forehead ...
Production footage for a film about a journey down the River Niger, Africa.
No titles. LS man scaling down a palm tree (30). Africans working in a vegetable plot (33). Closer view of man in plam tree (44). HAS of compound yard; ...
A journey along the West African coast to Lagos and scenes in Lagos.
No main title. "At sunrise we arrive off Freetown, Sierra Leone..." (12). Sunrise (14). Africans swimming from canoes (33). "Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone ...
A series of shots of the Niger Company's, J. Walkden's and W.B. McIver's buildings in Nigeria, usually consisting of a shot of the building exterior, clearly marked, with Africans entering and leaving the buildings.
"The Niger ...
A drama of tribal life in Central Africa.
'Nionga, a chieftain's daughter, is induced by a vindictive witch-doctor to persuade her betrothed lover, Kasari, to plot the destruction of a neighbouring tribe. During the wedding ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film charts the Prince's journey from Kumasi to Accra, before showing ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to South Africa, May 1925.
Main title and credits (33). MS Prince of Wales amongst a crowd ...