An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.
Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...
Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.
'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, Lagos 19/4/1947, the venue of the AAA meeting. Europeans and ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial Office tea party.
'Nigeria - Agriculture in the School' Young boys ...
At Loughborough College colonials study co-operative methods.
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 ...
Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and see a fire display.
'Gold Coast government starts Canning Factory' Women cleaning ...
'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads from woodblocks.
'Fiji' A general survey of the islands and industry. AV of ...
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on portraits of colonials in London, the rehabilitation of African soldiers in East Africa and a victory parade in Nairobi.
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on road building in Kenya and on animals from Kenya at London Zoo.
'Kenya - builds roads' Kenya village, straw huts. Bulldozer clearing land to ...
'London: This magazine is devoted to the activities of the Gold Coast Band during their visit to the U.K. The music track is an actual recording of their playing' (Colonial Cinema, December 1947, 95).
The ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.
A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; the history, geography and social life of the inhabitants.
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a gunnery officer (?) scanning the sea through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of HMS Nelson, a cloud of cordite drifting by as the ...
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up in a pick-up truck and pose with their weapons - mainly SMLE Mk III rifles - but one of the men, a professional game hunter, has a ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes at Scapa Flow filmed on 4 March 1941: a port side profile of the battleship HMS Nelson in a dark grey paint scheme used by the Home Fleet on its large warships at this time in the war; she carries two Unrifled Projector (U/P) ...
I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls.
II. "Pacific: GIs ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of the accession of Mutesa II in Kampala, 19th-20th November 1942.
Free boxing fair and fun fair at St Elmo, Lower Valletta, run by the army for the services and also open to civilians. Bomb damage visible in the hall, the largest hall in Europe. Soldiers and civilians ...
8 Mar. 1942. First stage of General Auchinleck's journey from Cairo to Baghdad. He boards a plane at Heliopolis Aerodrome. The plane stops at Lydda (near Jaffa) to refuel. On arrival at Baghdad he is met ...
The Commander-in-Chief of the Indian ...
Reel 1: Close-up of hands sorting aerial reconnaissance photographs. A man descends a ladder from a tall airfield control tower with palm thatch. View from the tower with an RAF ...
A detachment of No.1 Army Commando lands on Lamma Island, a few miles from Hong Kong Island, to establish an anti-piracy post.
View from a Royal ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Marshall: Commandos, wearing full kit, sit and listen to a briefing at a tented camp. Cheerful commandos sitting on the ground. Troops passing camera. ...
Open ground with troops on the move. Team of men hauls a wheeled trolley up the beach. Troops walking through tall grass. Signals post. Troops advancing in single file. Troops ...
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.
A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...
"Universal Pictures Presents a Popular Variety View" Delhi. Leader Newspsers Ltd building. Snake charmers. Ganges. Ajanta. Jodhpur. School. Taj Mahal. "Buy war bond and stamps." Film ends on the stars and stripes.
Anthony Eden's Empire tour. The London County Council elections. Food rationing. The Young Conservatives' conference at Filey including a visit to Butlin's. Extract from Churchill's speech at the M.I.T. praising the deterrent powers of the ...
7 May 1943. First escort vessel and merchant ship City of Florence enters harbour at Valletta. Harbour tug proceeds to ships. Naval crew of Multipol Pompom watching ships. Material unloaded into lighters ...
Reel 1: Opening shot partially obscured. Series of shots looking ...
The crew visit the 23rd Battery of the 11th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Malta Artillery at San Pietra. They look at one of the 4.5 inch guns and chat with the Maltese gunners. At Benghaisa they ...
I. Reel One. A Sector, Algiers. LCM(1) 73 runs inshore near Algiers carrying troops who wave to the cameraman - they disembark and proceed inland. LS off the starboard bow of Viceroy of India and pan left to ...
I. Convoy at sea. XLS off the port bow of an escorting Leander Class cruiser - the cruiser fires repeatedly off to starboard. MS as HMS Porpoise flashes a signal - conditions are rough and overcast, and the ...
A North African convoy on the first leg of its voyage from England to Gibraltar.
Convoy at sea. MS fine on the port bow of a passenger ship in heavy sea. LS to a second ship ...
The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.
A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined metal into pure copper bars.
Part 1. Milling Shows the various crushing and grinding machines, including: the primary ...
Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur ...
Observation procedure preceding a long range gun attack.
Men from the 426th South Nottinghamshire (Hussars) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery firing a 5.5-inch gun. ...
Motor transport of IV Corps crosses a Bailey bridge near Toungoo (Taungoo) during the Allied drive on Rangoon, Burma.
An Ordnance QF 40mm (Bofors) ...
Somewhere in northern Burma, a small wooden bridge is used by men, mules and vehicles to cross a river.
Indian troops pass camera. They pass through ...
Reel 1: Pan across a beachhead on the banks of the River Chindwin showing men, mules and a number of jeeps. Brief shot of men washing and shaving on the riverbank. Mules are led ...
The RAF provides air cover and drops supplies for men of the 2nd Division as they cross the River Irrawaddy, Burma.
Distant shot of Spitfire ...
In northern Burma, troops of 2nd Battalion The Buffs cross the Shweli River before the assault on Myitson, with machine gun, mortar and artillery fire ...
Cyprus Coastal Defence Battery practising Action Stations.
Telephone orderly receiving message at observation post from Naval Command that an unidentified ship is in the ...
Firing practice by the Territorial Army at Limassol, Cyprus. Men rush to their posts, swing the gun round and fire off a few rounds. Another gun position, the gun is being operated by a remote control ...
Mules on Mount Olympus. Scottish soldiers eating at Othello's Tower at Famagusta, Cyprus. Soldiers cheering. Local farmers employing traditional farming methods: yoking of oxen, threshing, winnowing corn ...
A short history of the island is followed by views of the countryside and people in town and village.
Credits. Map of Cyprus with major towns and cities highlighted. Panned shot from waves lapping on a beach to the temple of Aphrodite. ...
Members of 606 Company the Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit) in Famagusta.
Palestinian troops rushing out of billets on an alarm being given. Fixing bayonets. Troops ...
26 Feb 1944. Recruits read the sign at the Recruiting Office then proceed to the office. They draw kit from the Quartermaster's stores. The Provost Sergeant hoists the Union Jack for reveille. Bugler ...
