INSTRUCTIONAL. View of the village belonging to the Mashona tribe. Cattle and goats are herded through the village. Children play. Villagers leave their huts carrying implements for the day's work (38). Ground is cleared of tree roots and ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. View of the village belonging to the Mashona tribe. Cattle and goats are herded through the village. Children play. Villagers leave their huts carrying implements for the day's work (38). Ground is cleared of tree roots and ...
Tribal life in Kenya; local religions; educational, medical and other activities of the Methodist Church.
Shows traditional methods of pottery making, basket weaving, the making of hunti ng weapons, boat building and ceremonial dances in East Africa.
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...
Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are forced to escape from the Germans down the river in an old boat and conceive a plan to improvise torpedos to attach to the ...
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.
Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.
Amateur. A European family holidaying in Africa.
Beach hut on island. Boat out at sea. Africans dancing and drinking beer. European boy dances with them. African teaches European man to throw fishing net. Family scenes at home ( ...
Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.
Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.
LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...
AKC News Parade film No.323, 13 April 1959; including visit of Prince Philip to Christmas Island; floods in Madagascar; the journey of US nuclear submarine USS Skate to the North Pole, and the scattering of the ashes of the Australian explorer, Sir ...
ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the Governor of the Western Region, Sir John Regan.
Edited scenes showing the ceremony on the parade ground, Saint Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena; also includes recruits from St Helena delivering family messages to camera, and a message from ...
Unedited, extended coverage of the ceremony in which members of Alanbrooke Platoon (Royal Irish Regiment) receive their regimental caps. At the end of the tape, three black soldiers record ...
The story of Alec Smith, son of the Rhodesia Prime Minister, as drop-out, former drug smuggler and addict and his role as as army padre and peacemaker in Zimbabwe
"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien Orders" are those which Communism is giving to its adherents everywhere who are working for the overthrow of law and order ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong via Singapore.
"Monday 19th May PORTSMOUTH" The destroyer HMS Coventry sets off from ...
Shows the ecological system based on the Amate fig tree, found in the tropical forests of Belize. The tree in turn is dependent upon the instinctive behaviour of microscopic black wasps, which lay eggs within the fig, which ...
Story of 6,000 mile journey by road rail and air from Cape Town to Cairo.
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A report on Anguilla's illegal declaration of independence from the West Indies Associated States.
DOCUMENTARY. Scenes following the quelling, by British troops, of the attempted rebellion in Anguilla; a demonstration; British troops on the island; a party given by the Royal Navy; a speech by Ronald Webster.
Explores the conflicting attitudes towards development in an 'under-developed ar ea' the Seychelles, and points out how economic advance can destroy more than it creates.
I. MS sequence as HMS Eastbourne (F.73) leaves Portsmouth, heading out towards Spithead. Whirlwind anti-submarine helicopter, minesweeper HMS Killiekrankie (M.1128), and a small motor vessel, Jato, also appear on screen.
II. Squid ATW. MCU of ...
I. HMS Fenton acts out the interception of some unseen coastal traffic. CUs of men on the bridge - signalman looking through binoculars, Officer of the Watch, Captain Hart, the Navigation Officer. A flag signal is ...
Antigua, the northernmost island of the Leeward islands in the Caribbean. Description of the old English harbour and the scenery.
INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop Lagos. The main problems being reclamation of swamp areas provision of residential areas and slum clearance.
"Rl.1." ...
Documentary on the choice of the Atlantic island of Ascension as a tracking station for satellites and rockets and its transformation.
‘Drab endless vistas of scree’ was Michael Orrom's first impression of ...
Roy Welensky is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, topics include the Commonwealth, racial policy, South Africa, possible constitutional change, imperial rule and its legacy,mixed marraigesetc...
Shots of Area Commanders leaving the building after meeting at HAFMED Headquarters, Floriana, Malta.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records ...
Military footage filmed during the occupation, showcasing exclusively Argentine hardware and activities; extended montage against a background of martial music. Also shots of the ...
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage raft and travel upstream towards the Murchison Falls, filming the wildlife that they encounter. They spend time ...
An exercise involving the transport of army units to a brief 'action' in the Middle East briefly portrayed to exemplify the British Army's rle.
Troops of the Army's Strategic Reserve ...
Army Video Diary for October 1996, with footage provided by the Army Mobile News Teams for the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Germany.
Items include operations in ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.
RAMC training film made at 33 General Hospital, Hong Kong, in 1956.
This silent RAMC training film demonstrates the IPPR system for managing bulbar palsy which is a great advance over conventional 'Iron lung' methods ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.
Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within the farm. View of Sisters Peak from Mountain Road. West Indian steel band and dancing. Power House plant ...
Documentary about the Ascension Island and its wildlife, and how the latter has adapted since the Island became a military base.
Supply base scenes.
Continuing from the previous film (ADM 4824), this reel shows: extensive footage of rifle firing practice (by the SAS, apparently), assembling a mobile stove and cooking ...
Supply activities at Ascension Island prior to the arrival of the task force en route to the Falklands.
The reel opens with a Sea King taking off at the air base at Ascension Island Aerial, and ...
Supply base scenes
The reel shows: arrival at Ascension Island by Nimrod, the setting up of and scenes in tented and temporary accommodation, troops cleaning weapons, the surrounding landscape, a ...
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Scenes around the base at Ascension Island with Falklands survivors (?).
Shots show Victor tanker aircraft parked, and a cargo ship anchored out to sea with a helicopter carrying supplies. A launch ...
Looks at the Asian Arts Festival in Hong Kong which features the practice of traditional theatrical, musical and dance acts.
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, on duty in Malaya: girls operating switchboard, office workers, girls playing tennis, relaxing in sitting room and attending a lecture on Malayan geography.
The Australian and New Zealand contingents to the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II are inspected by C-in-C Mediterranean.
Admiral Mountbatten visits HMAS Sydney in Grand Harbour, Malta; ...
CINEMAGAZINE. New Guinea natives follow noble calling. Archery proves great sport for war veterans. Fine freighter completed in Brisbane yards. Melbourne girl completes her own little theatre.