Scenes in Hong Kong, including: rice fields; junks and temple at Wanchai.

Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.

The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields as the commentator explains the process and the suitability of Rhodesia for tobacco growing. The ...

AMATEUR FILM. Scenes of 1937 Coronation celebrations in Hong Kong. The aircraft carrier `Eagle' in the harbour. Military parade at Happy Valley. Processions, including Chinese dragons, acrobats, woman on float in traditional costume, ...

DOCUMENTARY - made as a coronation souvenir (George VI) and traces the story of the British Empire from 1895 to the proclamation of George VI as King. Events are shown in strict chronological order.

Rl.1 St. James's Palace, December ...

INTEREST. "New Government House - Darjeeling. In Government House grounds". A carriage comes along the drive, escorted by natives. Two women get out of the carriage. The two women and a man talk on the balcony (28). "His Excellency ...

INTEREST. "Darjeeling - summer seat of the Bengal government". A shot of the hill road to Darjeeling. Natives herd sheep. Other natives are dragging a roller along (14). More sheep by the side of the railway track (21). A car, with a ...

A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

The film introduces Kinga's home - huts in a clearing - before showing Kinga and his family, who are at work making bread, collecting wood and ...

The people of Dominica clebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in their own tradional ways.

AMATEUR FILM. Dragon boat racing, possibly at Aberdeen

Boats racing, boy beating a drum, people watching from junks and other boats, paper boats on water, women rowing.

Viceroy's Durbar in Lahore Fort, October 1937: ornate occasion with drapings, carpets, taking the salute, escorts and carriages [washed out colour that ends in balck and white]. Camel carriage for Governor's state entry to races; hunt meeting at Hariki ...

Subjects include Shaikh Hamad's desert truffle hunt; an Arab dinner with Shaikh Hamad and Colonel Loch; a flying boat; visit of George Rendel of the Foreign Office, March 1937; fish under water; dhows at anchor; a shammal (north wind ...

Indian boy sees the dance of the Elephants.

INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.

An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. C.U. the carving. Placing the stick between both feet he inserts a hard stick into the notch and twists it rapidly ...

The town of Darjeeling, showing its life and work. Re-edited material from DARJEELING (Secrets of India series).

Censor certificate (18). Main and series title and credit (50). A map of India, Darjeeling is shown ...

FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, his past catches up and he goes to prison. Pyke brings up Doubleday's son Charlie Chisholm with his own grandson Willie Pyke ...

A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street scenes in Teng Yuch, Chung King, Yenan, and the Kumbun lamasery.

Rl. 1. Animated map of journey. Village life in Burma. ...

Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, harvested and prepared for transport.

DOCUMENTARY.

Rl.1 Opening shots of the mail plane calling at Brunette Downs, Northern Territory, Australia. Aerial shots of the sea, fields and river and the plane in flight "The aeroplane has won for man the freedom of the air" (527). Shots ...

Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.

The High Command was Thorold Dickinson’s first directorial venture, and the first and only production of Fanfare Pictures, an offshoot of Associated Talking Pictures.  ...

A reel subtitled "Places visited and people met" showing off-duty activities around the world - an elaborate picnic in Algiers, a skiing expedition to the Sierra Nevadas from Gibraltar, a fly infested fishing expedition in ...

Scenes of the damage caused by a typhoon in August 1936: at the waterfront; in the city; at Kowloon Football Ground; the sea wall at Lia Chi Kok; the Chinese cruiser "Hai Chow" aground; the bathing beach at Ting Kau.

Yangtxe Gorges, river scenery. Detail of shipping taken from river steamer.

Peking & The Forbidden City. Train journey to Great Wall of China.

Busy port scenes in Shanghai. Ships of Imperial Japanese Navy in China.

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Voyage home to England with fancy dress parade on board. Port Sudan. Passage through Red Sea with stop to see the camels of Sudan. Rock of Gibraltar.

Dedication of memorial chapel at Sandhurst College. Paris. Vimy Ridge ...