EMIR INSTALLED 1954
SIR BRYAN * SHARWOOD-SMITH> KNIGHTS THE EMIR OF KANO, ALHAJI MUHAMMADU * SANUSI>
SIR BRYAN * SHARWOOD-SMITH> KNIGHTS THE EMIR OF KANO, ALHAJI MUHAMMADU * SANUSI>
Current affairs programmme. Items: Empire foods; Colour bar; South African troubles; B.O.A.C. flowers.
Survivors from Empire Windrush at Gibraltar, March 1954.
HMS Triumph arrives at Gibraltar from Algiers followed by general views of transport. Survivors of the Empire Windrush disembark from ...
Procession involving the Etsu of Nupe; shots of life in the town of Bida, Nigeria
Trials carried out in Malta illustrating the use of a NL Pontoon to bridge a water gap between LST ramp and the shore when loading and unloading a Centurion tank.
Pontoon approaches HMS ...
Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers being evacuated from Trieste to Malta on the light carrier HMS Centaur, and the frigate HMS Whirlwind.
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The Empire Games Village Part 2. Teams practising. Impromptu cricket. Fencing practice. Official visit by the Duke of Edinburgh and his inspection of the village and his meetings with the teams and officials. Formation display by a RAF Hawker Hunters ...
Track and field practice by competitors at the village. Formal ceremonies with the hoisting of the national flags and marching by national team members in their smart uniforms. Formal marching by the RAF Band .
Competitors of all races mixing at ...
Formal ceremonies of the Hoisting of National Flags at the Village with the National teams in attendance. Extensive parading by the large national teams with on the sport drill by the Australian men.
Production / Donor Details: The cameraman was ...
Aerial views of the opening of the Games at the Stadium of Cardiff Arms Park and aerial views of the city centre of Cardiff. The Empire Games Village outside Cardiff with the ceremony of the hoisting of the national flags of the contesting countries. ...
Kenya: churches, clinics, gold mining (surface), blacksmithing, pottery making and dancing.