Amateur film. Leith Harbour; floating dock; pumps; `Southern Harvester'; floating factory; gunner in corvette; pipes for blowing; playing the whale.
Amateur film. Leith Harbour; floating dock; pumps; `Southern Harvester'; floating factory; gunner in corvette; pipes for blowing; playing the whale.
Travel short about a Merchant Navy engineer who calls at Hong Kong, Bangkok and other Eastern cities prior to accepting a berth in the Orient.
A party for British children onboard HMS Forth, submarine depot ship at Malta.
LA.LS from quayside to HMS Forth alongside - a huge Father Christmas figure has been erected as if in the act of ...
HMS Tyne at Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises.
Flag Officers arrive on board HMS Tyne at Grand Harbour, Malta. FO's meeting in C-in-C's Dining cabin.
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Scenes in and around Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises, Mediterranean 1955.
Combined Fleet formed up prior to entering Grand Harbour. Harbour entrance and Valletta. Firing the Royal ...
(Taken in HMAS Quadrant.) Destroyers in line astern and ahead; fleet forming up; fleet dressed overall at entrance to Singapore Roads.
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INTEREST. A travelogue set in Western Uganda, bordering the Congo. View across the Ruwenzori Mountains. The hot, sulphur springs on the savannah plains (130-155). Contrast of dense jungle on mountain side. Bamboo growing in the jungle ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Malay Archipelago and Borneo.
INTEREST. The production of copper in Northern Rhodesia. Welfare facilites provided for the mining communities, including the towns of Mufulira, N'Kana, Ndola and Chingola.
Travelogue, showing the buildings, people and wildlife of Nairobi.
Over shots of modern Nairobi, the commentator outlines the transformation of the city under British rule over the previous fifty years. The film highlights the 'modern colonial ...
Rehearsal of Fleet concert party. "Blue Jackets" band of HMS St Angelo marches down Kingsway, Valletta; crowd lines street. Street Lining party provided by Malta shore establishments takes up positions in Kingsway. Band and ...
Film about the Dunlop Rubber Co's worldwide activities, particularly in its 13 rubber estates in Malacca. The film looks at the amenities on the estate and the anti-bandit security measures.
Introduced as a story of 'British achievement in the ...