Travelogue of Ceylon. Shrines, pottery, various methods of fishing as used in Ceylon. We see fishing with a hand net, a special kind of drag-net, and fishing from a catamaran. The film ends with a final view of Colombo.

Gold Coast. Rural Colonial Fort / Residence. British Colonial officer with wife walks down exterior stairs to courtyard where they and their son play with their dogs. In the Courtyard there is drawn up a Guard of African troops with ...

Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of locusts in huge cloud attacking trees and almost blackening out the light. Tribal gathering in flat scrub ...

Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country and carry this away in a long column. Large group of men and teenage boys work on the construction of an earth embankment in ...

Gold Coast. Inter Title "Funeral Costoms by Kumasi Chief in Remebrance of the late Sir Cecil Armitage and Mr N. S. Newlands. Kumasi. 12th Apirl 1933." At a large outdoor gathering, held on a sports field, the Ashanti people re-enact ...

Life in India 1936

The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation of film and crude animated maps, the film's principle concern being the importance of communication to ...

Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows and calves; he talks to African herdsmen. `All is well, Bwana': various farm animals; sheep shearing; oxen pull ...

Sensational melodrama of a convict settlement on a tropical island, where the brutal Deputy Commandant exploits the prisoners and sparks off a revolt.

A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER ƒMEDICINE WOMEN>

A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY

Muharram (Islamic month of mourning) procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings. Changa Manga tramway with children playing on a trolley car. Gymkhana children's party with costumes, merry-go-rounds, camel rides and the "Punjabi ...

DOCUMENTARY. The rebuilding of Palestine.

rl.1 Primitive life in Palestine - threshing by hand - a camel powers a water wheel. An Arab Muezzin in Jerusalem, the gates, streets and bazaars - the churches and mosques, the Via Dolorosa - the tomb ...

Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.

Sign to and view of Chakdara Fort. Urban and agricultural scenes in Northern India. Road marker sign to Kulu and Pandoh in Himalayas. ...

Amateur film without titles shot by the Deputy-Prime Minister of Johore (Malaya), Abdul Azis, records distant views of a Wehrmacht parade and overhead Luftwaffe flypast, and views of Baden Baden where he was taking the waters with his wife, and where ...

"Agfa" Two men on a raft splitting bamboo. Locals leaving riverside huts, carrying boxes. Two British women among them and local women carrying babies. A British man at the end of the line with a pipe and ...

The mica industry in India and Britain; notably at the Chrestian Mining company, Domchanch.

Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.

British adults and children, wearing solar topees, attend fete at Churat. British soldiers (presumably Highland Light Infantry) with ...

Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.

The Governor General Lord Clarendon opens the Empire Exhibition at Milner Park, Johannesburg, on September 15th 1936. Some of the features of the exhibition are shown.

Scenes of the Phillips family, amateur film-makers, in Hong Kong: on their verandah; at a wedding; on the beach.

Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.

Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS