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    Amateur film. Scenes at the Oba Oba Mission, Samoa; MSs ten-year-old boys; pan across landscape from summit of hill; men, women and children walking to wooden, one-floor buildings and church - the mission (?); CU of European - the minister ...

     
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    Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife - probably on a Thomas Cook tour)

     
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    PETRA 1938

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    Documentary on the city of Petra. Traces four civilisations, each of which found value in re-establishing the life of this city, whose temples and dwellings were shaped out of the caves in the cliff of a mountain range in the heart of the ...

     
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    Ben, Bebe and Barbara in Africa, mostly watching ritual dancing. Ben, Bebe and Barbara in a large garden - home?




     
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    Goods transportation: ferry and junks on the waterfront; lorries; coolies carrying a variety of goods along roads. Passenger transportation: ocean liners - `Ajax'; `Aramis'; `Empress of Japan'; and `Chitral'; harbour ferries; motor buses; ...

     
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    GOLD COAST 1938

    Great Britain

    INTEREST. A film of British West Africa.

    Credits (23). The primitive fishing of the natives on the Gold Coast - they beach their boat, lay out their nets and repair any damage to them ready for the next morning's fishing. The ...

     
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    GRAPEFRUIT 1938

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    INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of grapefruit in the British Honduras.

    Titles (17). Woman eating grapefruit (21). Men planting out sour orange seedlings (47). Spraying the seedlings. Grafting cuttings from grapefruit trees onto the ...

     
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    A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY SPLITTING AND WEAVING PALM LEAVES

     
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    Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

    Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts on a country road in India (124). Travelling shot from road of Muslim hermitage. Ground view -The hermitage ...

     
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    Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.

     
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    Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors in their summerwear; in the city centre and shops; in the side streets. Compiled in 1937 and rearranged in ...

     
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    Amateur film of a trip to Cuba, Bermuda and the Azores.

    On the ship, a quoits contest, a face wash race and a straw race. Entering Havana. Morro Castle(?), a ferry boat, a banana plantation. Algibe Farm(?), with pineapples, ...

     
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    Great Britain, USA

    PART 1

    "NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON FACT". "THE AFRICAN FOREST VILLAGE OF METRET - ELDERS NEGOTIATE OVER THE BRIDE PRICE FOR NGONO, WITH ...

     
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    INSTRUCTIONAL. How men of the Barotse tribe make and use a dug-out canoe.

    Two Africans begin to fell a tree with axes. The tree falls. Shaping and hollowing the trunk into a canoe. Launching the canoe on the Zambesi. Two ...

     
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    USA

    Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.

     
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    The visit of Queen Elizabeth, consort to George VI, to the Burma Pvailion at the opening of the Empire Exhibition on 3rd May 1938.

    Opens with middle-distance shot of the Queen leaving the pavilion. Then shows in sequence the various ...

     
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    AMATEUR FILM. Views over harbour. Woman cleaning wooden oar on jetty. Boats coming into harbour. Two small boys playing jacks. Men asleep in wicker basket. Men using winch to unload wooden crates from a boat. Crates loaded and transported ...

     
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    Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.

    Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform n front of a large temple. Shots of the temple buildings, showing carvings (98). Priest tolling a bell (103 ...

     
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    USA

    DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.

    RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium via France, Spain, Morocco and the Sahara into the heart of the Belgian Congo. In Morocco, we see ...

     
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    Travelogue of Southern Rhodesia. Scenes in Bulawayo, factory workshops for the railways. Gold mining operations in a large foundry and by a single prospector. Dairy farming in Gwelo, chromium mines at Selukwe, Rhodes' tomb at Matopos. ...

     
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    An engineer dreams of a fictitious conference of the `Mediterranean Economy Union' called to discuss plans for damming the Mediterranean Sea at Gibraltar and the Dardanelles in order to reduce the sea level and reclaim potentially valuable ...

     
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    USA

    The lives and customes of the Hindus of India, based on a book by Father Lhande.

     
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    DRUM 1938 enhanced entry

    Great Britain

    Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.

    The Drum takes place in the fictional town of Tokot, situated on the border of the contentious frontier province of Afghanistan. ...