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    Evans Collection

    Kenya: churches, clinics, gold mining (surface), blacksmithing, pottery making and dancing.

     
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    Leeds Collection

    Clearing land for cultivation. Lyons and Cadbury / Fry signs on warehouses.

    Preparation and cultivation of cocoa nut trees and a local agricultural show.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in ...

     
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    Leeds Collection

    Arrival at port by road. Views of the docks and dockers, canoeists diving for money and shipping. Various shots of life on board ship from the passengers' perspective and a trip ashore.

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    Leeds Collection

    Various shots of the beach, house & garden, the family with friends, the air port, water falls, the city, river life, local farming and crop spraying.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in Ghana ...

     
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    Leeds Collection

    Various shots of a local Agricultural Show featuring boats & tractors. Shots of new suspension bridge, water falls & picnic, and local bird life & flowers. Some banana and cocoa groves and agricultural trials.

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    Bridgman Collection

    A city (Nairobi?), swept, bedecked and decorated in preparation for the visit of The Princess Margaret in 1956. Streets lined, and a fleeting glimpse of the princess in the passing procession of cars. Scenes of the congestion ...

     
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    Abbott (Suckling) Collection

    Scenes of the Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Nigeria, including preparations, bunting in streets, crowds. Also scenes of home life.

    Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial ...

     
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    Jacobs Collection

    Uganda 1956, Malindi, Rome.

    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.

     
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    Alley Collection

    St. Alban's church (Lutheran) on Azania Front.

    A street scene showing a shop selling kangas.

    Twiga Hotel - the most modern hotel at that time.

    The Buddhist temple in Garden Avenue.

    The pombe (beer) market.

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    Film on the Copper Belt region of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), specifically the interaction of Christianity and commerce in this region and the work of the United Mission to the Copper Belt (in which the London Missionary society was a partner). The ...

     
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    The first Bata shoe fashion show at the Raffles hotel, Singapore. Features models from Singapore's Mannequin school and music from Giancarlo's Italian show band.

     
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    Tells the story of the erection in the sea of the movable drilling platform at Qatar in the Persian Gulf.

     
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    Story of an expedition to drill an exploratory oil well in the jungle of Salawati (New Guinea), to which helicopters are used to fly in the derrick and drilling equipment.

     
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    Oilman's schoolboy son, on holiday at Qatar, gets the Christmas present he wants most. 28,000-ton tanker halts in the Persian Gulf to help an Arab dhow. Oil products from the Island of Grain go to a destination in the Norwegian mountains.

     
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    Set in a prison camp for men captured in Malaya by the Japanese during World War II, whilst women and children are sent on a series of aimless treks through the jungle.

    The following statement regarding the story appears after the opening credits ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    RNAS Hal Far's Air Display, 28th August, 1954.

    Ratings of HMS Falcon clean an Avenger in preparation for air display. Rockets are led under the wing of an Attacker; cleaning of Attacker and ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

    I. Whirlwind WV.193 (recognition letter E) lands on a cleared patch in the jungle and soldiers unload tractor parts. Using sheers and lifting tackle the soldiers begin assembling the parts. Further ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    The First Lord of the Admiralty's visit to Malta, January 1956.

    First Lord with C-in-C Med and members of staff. Arrival on board HMS Birmingham, Ulysses and Saintes; inspection of Guard of ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    The First Lord of the Admiralty's visit to RNAS Hal Far, January 1956.

    First Lord arrives, inspects Guard and meets Heads of Departments. He also visits 809 Squadrons (Venoms) and meets ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - CYPRUSGB

    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 ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Chartered aircraft crash in Malta, February 1956: general view of wreckage showing personnel clearing debris.

    Notes

    Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    RNAS Hal Far - HMS Falcon - holds an open-day fte.

    Shots of the fte activities. Dog handling and inspection for the 'best dog' award. A gravity ride in a drop tank converted into "Rocket XM ...

     
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    GB

    Soldiers from the Gurkha Regiment and the King's Own Scottish Borderers arrive for a Far East defence conference.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SUEZGB

    HMS Bulwark sails from Grand Harbour at 0900 on Monday 10 December, 1956, to the accompaniment of bands and cheering parties from the other ships. The camera is on HMS Eagle

    LS off the ...