The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.
The film begins by offering a historical consideration of the three territories. First, Bechuanaland, which is 'mostly ...
Things about Hong Kong: Victoria Harbour; junks and sampans; Kai Tai Airport; Kowloon peninsular; what people do for living; houses; religions; sports; agriculture; plants.
Agricultural Show; visit to Tai O; launching a ferry boat; H.R.H. Prince Philip visits Hong Kong.
Holiday shots on Lantau Island.
Dragon Boat Festival and dragon boat races.
Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots are made, fired and taken to market for sale. A family buys a pot and takes it home for use.
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Film shows a model steam engine; tin-mining on the plateau of Northern Nigeria; the Governor of Nigeria arriving at Kaduna, reviewing troops and laying foundation stone for the new House of Assembly for the Northern Region; a sala ...
Records footage of the various members of Mr Gill's staff, European and African, who worked in the Public Works Department of what is now the North-West Province of the Cameroon Republic.
It includes sequences of the maintenance ...
Records the journey and experiences of a team of engineers from the Public Works Departments of Western, Eastern and Federal Nigeria at a Road Conference in Kenya.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Gill was a Provincial ...
1. Views of game in Tanganyika.
2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.
3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.
4. Film of Nzega District Agricultural Show (Wannamwezi Tribe).
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6. Film of a Masai parade, possibly for the Governor's visit in 1953-4.
7. Various views of Tanganyika.
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9. Pangani 1951. Tanga Province, Tanganyika. 10. Arrival at Dar es Salaam 1952; Governors visit to Masasi ...
HMS Glory leaves Grand Harbour, Valletta.
HA of HMS Glory as she leaves Malta, steaming left to right past the camera. The crew man the side, with Sea Furies parked abreast the island, and ...
Lord Mountbatten with family and friends swimming and skin-diving from a launch.
There are also some shots of them boarding the launch from a warship (HMS Surprise?) and of local fishermen at work in harbour ( ...
Story of the development of Hong Kong over the last 15 years, including the growth of new industries and social services. It also shows how Hong Kong has become a key-point of Far Eastern commerce and communications, and the part it plays in world ...
The films include the Queen's Birthday Parade at Police Training School, Kijango; the Police Training Retreat Parade; a Christmas Party at the Police Training School; an Air Show at Nyeri, and other general and family scenes ...
The films include the Queen's Birthday Parade at Police Training School, Kijango, the Police Training Retreat Parade, a Christmas Party at the Police Training School, an Air Show at Nyeri, and other general and family scenes ...
No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the head of the queue is a Nigerian (16). MS of the Nigerian seated and smiling ...
Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.
A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and economic survey - active manpower is the region's main economic asset. The process of change can ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and Indian - while characterising the natives as "sometimes delightful, but sometimes ...
Ceremony of the handing over of Somaliland which is to be administered once again by Italy under United Nations trusteeship. The British flag is lowered and the Italian raised.
Amateur footage featuring Noel Coward in Jamaica.
Amateur film. Footage of Cyprus, Crete, Israel and Jerusalem.
Gives an example of a supply drop to a jungle patrol, from the preparation necessary before a patrol sets out to the actual recovery of the supplies and their utilisation in the jungle.
Notes
Content information copied from SSVC RAF ...
A Malayan Film Unit film documenting the importance of following army procedure for airdrops of supplies in isolated areas of the jungle during the Emergency.
(Reel 1) Aerial views of the Malayan Jungle. Unit ...
Family, Masaka. Collection in general contains Queen's birthday celebrations, Independence celebrations, family on safari in Northern province, as well as daily life on an upcountry station
British North Borneo: a birthday party at the Jeans' family bungalow and various domestic and rural shots. Port & coastal views from ship. Local market and colourful costumed festival ceremonies. Local agriculture with cultivation by ...
Rural life scenes with local long houses. Opening Mission church. Jesselton railway station. Punch and Judy show at fair. Father Christmas visit by dingy
Rural air strip,buildings & take off. V.I P visit with cavalcade & airport ...
Various aspects of European family and social life in Borneo. Country life fishing villlages. Empire Day military celebrations. Infant school life. Arrival of Father Christmas & school party. Guy Fawkes party .
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Coastal port town concentration on busy commercial life of local population. Harbour loading , unloading of craft. Lorry traffic into docks. Market and busy street scenes. River small ferry crossing with passengers. Funeral or ...
The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard Jones. Jones, who was awarded the MBE, OBE and CBE for his work in the field of medicine, worked for the ...
A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.
"The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown territory they find the skeleton in the mines, and are rescued from a wild native.
This adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s ...Various shots outside a church for a family christening. Brief shots of outside of hospital. Girls and boys acting out drama. Garden shots with teenager and geese, small boy and mother, dog and rabbit.
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1.Welcome parades of Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and Police recruits, for High Commissioner's visit. 2. Family footage - Christening party. 3.Tennis courts.
4.Home bungalow with children playing in garden fish pond.
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Travel Film of Central Africa.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
Views of Zambesi and Kota-Kota, Nyasaland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at ...
Film of The Kruger National Park in South Africa; Wankie Reserve (now Hwange Park); and The Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...
Aspects of African life in Basutoland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
Flowers, shrubs and trees of Rhodesia showing their flowering seasons; city scenes and parks; wildlife in the bush.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...
Views of Zanzibar
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, Salisbury, Southern ...
Views of Vumba, Southern Rhodesia; mountain scenery, and the National Park of Southern Rhodesia including the ruins of the old city of Zimbabwe.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...
Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...
Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.
Travel film on the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika and the famous Kalambo Falls.
Cameron highlands
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he was ...
Edited film with intertitles showing various schools in Rhodesia: Mission schools, tobacco farm school, 'Governemtn schools in the townships', Goromonzi Senior High. Pupils and students shown enagaging in various activities and ...
