The film opens with air to ground shots from an aeroplane of the snow covered Alps, the Italian coastline and Rome. The film continues with highlights of Rosie Newman's visit to Cyprus including scenes in and around Kyrenia, carob and olive trees, a ...
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Baekeland Collection
A film of a safari from Isiolo in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya across Chalbi desert to North Horr(?). 2 Landrovers with police radio equipment to keep in touch with outside world.
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Bell Collection
Grandma's visit, Shad Valance Thika, Jardini holiday, Arusha Holiday, city park, Arboreliern, coffee trees.
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and ...
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Bell Collection
Mitchell Park Show,
Thika
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in Nairobi. She married a motor ...
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Bell Collection
Wedding of Mary Beatrice Leithead & Alan Martin Shadrack at St. Francis Church, Karen, near Nairobi on 30th July 1960. Reception at Shadracks' House Rhino Park Road, Karen.
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil ...
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Bell Collection
East Africa Airways - visiting.
Scenes believed to be of various cities & towns - Mombasa, Zanzibar, Nairobi, Gedi, Mbarara, Mwanza, Iringa, Dar-es -Salaam, Bagamoyo, Tanga, Namanca?.
Murchison Falls. Ruins of an Arab ...
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Bell Collection
1961
Queen Elizabeth Park - river trip, animals, birds, performence of local tribal dance. Livingstone. Victoria Falls.
An African sunset taken from the air.
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a ...
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Bell Collection
Nevasa, Suez, Port Said, Cairo, Gibraltar. Jean + Glen at Barcelona, setting sun.
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...
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Bell Collection
Kilimanjaro
Game. Sarah & Simon Bell, Bell's House (Nairobi)
Peter Kenyatta
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...
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Bell Collection
Sarah-Pineapple, dog show, Helicofter, swimming, Mombasa, seaside.
Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in ...
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Birch Collection
Housing and street scenes, estuary harbour life (probably Lagos) also showing some Western shipping but mostly African craft and fishermen.
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...
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Birch Collection
Scenes in Sierra Leone
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...
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