The history of coffee-growing and a detailed description of the coffee industry in East Africa.
First shown in Nairobi in March 1959, the film was made on location throughout East Africa, including ...
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 ...
A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.
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 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 ...
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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Summary: ...
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 ...
The Combined Fleets at Gibraltar, March 1954.
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Technical: print badly scratched and has ingrained dirt; damp has destroyed one side of reel.
Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been ...
Part of Command Activities Series
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Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989
The Commanding Officer of HMS Centaur relinquishes command at Malta.
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Remarks: uncatalogued.
(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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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.
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Technical: labelled "Dub".
The tour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to India, Pakistan, Sarawak, Singapore, North Borneo, Hong Kong, the Solomon, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Christmas Island, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Northern Line Islands.
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 ...
Compilation of unedited video of the Falklands including vehicle recovery, disciplinary action, vehicle maintenance and general views of the countryside and roads.
ACTUALITY. Members of the 1st Battalion, 2nd K.E.O. Gurkhas on active service in Borneo.
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 ...
Record of the operation to separate the Siamese twins from Africa.
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 ...
Conservative Party newsreel. Cartoon pointing out that there is no age limit for School Certificate entrants. The Commonwealth Conference. The Duchess of Kent returns from Far East tour. David eccles on incentive. Meeting between Churchill ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Malay Archipelago and Borneo.
Series in which investigative reporter Roger Cook looks at different cases of unscrupulous businesses. First in a resumed series. In this episode Cook investigates the ivory trade from East Africa to carving in Dubai and markets in Hong Kong ...
Argentinean documentary on the invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Argentine military equipment being prepared for the Falkland Islands. Fleet sets sail ...
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 ...
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.
I. Colour film of Royal Military Police in Aden, now Yemen, 1965 (ca).
II. Gibraltar Military Police around town 1960 (ca).
III. 101 Provost Marshal and 93 section Special Investigation Branch in Berlin ...
Map of Middle East with Kuwait highlighted, map of Port of Kuwait illustrating the Port Anchorage Basin and the location of coral reefs. Title: "Kuwait is entirely dependent on imports of all materials, including water. The lack of a suitable port ...
An introduction to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, including footage of fauna, flora and the local way of life, and showing the work of London Missionary Society/ CCWM (Congregational Council for World Mission) missions in the islands. The film follows ...
Film of naval activities during the Coronation Day celebrations in various parts of the Far East and elsewhere, 2nd June 1953.
(Part 1) HMS Unicorn in Singapore; public tours ship. (Part 2) ...
INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
The construction, by Richard Costain Ltd, of Kariba Heights, a township to house workers employed on the Kariba Dam project
The growing processing and weaving of cotton from East Africa.
Survey of the cotton industry in Uganda.
