Account of the delights of fishing for tuna and other large fish.

Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.

The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and hired labourer, successfully harvests and sells his cocoa beans.

The commentator introduces Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa ...

Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is keen to improve and listens to the advice of the agricultural officer, while the other is lazy and ignores all ...

Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...

Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.

The film shows the role of the chief in stimulating economic and social progress and how European and African institutions operate side by side. It then shows ...

A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.

A white doctor's sister and her two daughters have recently arrived from England. The daughters discover a dry fish pond and ...

Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.

Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...

How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.

Pottery in Sierra Leone.

By means of a letter addressed to 'the members, Cinema Clubs for Girls and Boys, Great Britain', a young boy offers an insight into his life at the Wankie Game Reserve in Southern Rhodesia.

A boy's hand opens a letter addressed to ' ...

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm ...

Near Nairobi, Kenya. Africans build a good permanent house using mainly materials which are available on the spot.

In a local village a colonial official arrives in a car to help re-build a house for locals. The film commentary ...

The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.

An animated map is shown, followed by general views of the country, and its peop le and their work. Concluding with a horse race.

Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a village in Togoland where a primitive loom is still in use.

Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.

A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation of ground-nuts and cattle keeping.

Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.

DOCUMENTARY/PROPAGANDA. Rushes for an unreleased and unfinished production documenting various talented members of the black community in Britain.

207306A Scene 5 Take 1: Black man and white man at a night club join in applause. The ...

HOME MOVIES. Scenes of the sugar cane industry in British Guiana (Guyana).

Sugar cane loaded from boat onto a river bank. Man cutting down cane with a machete. Man carrying cane on head and throwing it into a large rectangular ...

ACTUALITY. The 1948 Conservative Party conference: Oliver Stanley's speech on the benefits brought to the colonies by private enterprise and R.A.Butler's presentation of the Agricultural Charter.

Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.