A visit to Sierra Leone where much of the world's diamond industry is centred. Processes of preparing diamonds for dispatch. Commentary by Franklin Englemann.

INTEREST. The extraction of asphalt from Pitch Lake in Trinidad, its transportation and export.

Cocoa plantations in the Gold Coast (Ghana) and how they are affected by insects and the negligence of farmers.

An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns to the army as the battle of El Alamein begins. He is killed during an act of heroism and is unable to see his child. Years after ...

A colour travelogue intended to encourage tourists to visit the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia.

The film shows the the great ruins of Zimbabwe, follows a car journey to Umtali, before travelling through the fruit growing north and then on ...

A study of the Malay people living in a Borneo village. Showing fishing and village life.

A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the modern city of Accra.

'Lured by the false stories of his cousin Agboh, the boy Kumasenu leaves his village to seek adventure in the ...

The work of the Zambesi valley game rangers, the effects of lake Kariba and its dam on wildlife and "Operation Noah".

The training and work of the Royal Naval Air Service.

Over shots of a dinghy sailing race among moored warships, the commentary speaks of the importance of airpower in modern naval training. The film then provides a ...

Scenes in British Guiana. Local village life; sugar cane plantation work; cattle ranching; forest bird life; Amazonian Indian village; river rafting.

Kytor Falls. Women washing clothes in the river. Girl in hat. Street with river and ...

Contains the items: Princess Launches Largest Tanker Gold in the Back Garden Easter Fashion For All Seretse Back in Bechuanaland Danny Kaye Here Again

Includes coverage of the recent Gold Coast Elections in Accra.

An account of a typical days work by an English policeman in a provincial city - Leicester.

Hong Kong and port seen through the eyes of a typical New Yorker.

The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.

Annual ceremony of dancing to mark male and female circumcision ceremonies of the Bugusi-Sebei tribe in Uganda. The ceremonies lasted about three days. Footage includes the circumcision, dancing tribes in elaborate costumes, face painting ...

Education for rural children in Northern Rhodesia, both white and black.

The film opens with air to ground shots from an aeroplane of the snow covered Alps, the Italian coastline and Rome. The film continues with highlights of Rosie Newman's visit to Cyprus including scenes in and around Kyrenia, carob and olive trees, a ...

A film of a safari from Isiolo in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya across Chalbi desert to North Horr(?). 2 Landrovers with police radio equipment to keep in touch with outside world.

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Military band performing on the march at a military establishment (Poor focus). Celebrations and parade, probably in Nicosia on Greek ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Greek wedding & party and Greek Orthodox priest. Country life. Camels. Floods. Forests. Troodos Mountians. Coastal scenery. Coastal ...

Title falsely suggests the film is a story of a summer holiday in the Troodos mountains. There are some scenes from Cyprus but many more are of scenes in Britain. Extensive sequence of general and external views of Durham Cathedral, ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies. Fancy Dress; arrival of Father Christmas on a decorated donkey cart. Coastal scenery. Byzantine & Roman ruins, ...

Mitchell Park Show,

Thika

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in Nairobi. She married a motor ...

Housing and street scenes, estuary harbour life (probably Lagos) also showing some Western shipping but mostly African craft and fishermen.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...

King Jimmy Market/ Waterslide Market/ Sulima

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the ...

Freetown/Sussex

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

Scenes in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

At home in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

Aeroplane landing.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

The family and friends play in the gardens, on the beach and in the waters of Sussex Bay. We are introduced to the flowers and shrubs of the garden, the company launch, two new puppies a glance at the outside of the new house and ...

This film occurs totally on or near the waterside, river delta or harbour. The latter part appears most likely to be at Freetown, Sierra Leone. In the early stages some bird life is featured but by the end of the reel we are ...

Mysore Keddah 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary Mysore etc. 1952; Bangalore, Kyathevargudi (Bison Shoot) 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary 1958; Periyar Game Sanctuary 1953; Karauti Shikar 1954; Gwalior Shikar 1960. Also: Life in Mayo College ...

Kencho School. Riding. Tea estate. Swimming in dam. Hydro Electic Dam. Uganda. Ripon falls, Jinja. Kampala. Terracing. Pygmies, Bundibugyo. Gorillas. General views of volcanic countryside with distant volcanoes. Tororo. Nairobi Trade ...