Ladymead is a Georgian Mansion in which four generations of women have lived while their husbands are away at war. In each case the husband returns home expecting his wife to be unchanged.

Kenya. A District Development Team tackles disease, bad farming methods and ignorance.

In a period of warfare between Malayan bandits and British security forces, the Army and RAF work closely together, and planes fly in a constant supply of food and ammunition, particularly into closely wooded areas where ...

AN EXPEDITION TO THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL MADE IN 1947 TO OBSERVE THE LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF THE XAVANTES INDIANS

The rising standard of health of the native communities of East Africa brought about by improved methods of cattle farming.

The film was produced from Animal Husbandry (1948)

The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...

A rubber plantation in Malaya, showing the production of rubber, and the welfare and living conditions of the workers.

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 ...

Reel 1: (Can marking: Bombay Yacht Club, Willingdon, Ratnagiri, Susie Buchan) (Colour, US 1944 date mark) Murray by Indian beach. Served beer by waiter at sports club, around pool. English woman. Kabbadi wrestling. (US 1941 date mark) Close-ups of ...

Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...

Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the coast. Views of pools by the river used to wash for diamonds; views of a market; views of steam ...