Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Documentary about the prolific Hong Kong film industry which rolls off 250 featu res a year.
When the daughter of a trade union organiser announces her relationship with a black man, the revelation exposes deep prejudice and hidden conflicts in her family.
This television play, part of the 'Armchair Theatre' ...
Film illustrating the method of house construction.
Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.
CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...
Investiture at HAFMED, Malta.
Vice-Admiral James A Fife, USN (Deputy C-in-C Allied Forces Med) presents decorations on behalf of US government to four British officers (for service in Korea), ...
HRH Princess Elizabeth visits RNAS Hal Far, January 1951.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete since film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI series records.
A record of Prince Charles' visit to Hong Kong.
A film looking at hunger and its causes, particularly politics and power struggles. It opens with scenes of hungry children, and the admonishment that the hungry know they need not be hungry, and looking at the disparity between the rich and the poor ...
Mute film of the 13/18 Hussars on duty in the Far East.
Checkpoint: local people searched. Morris 1000 passes armoured vehicle. (Blank 25 ft to 27 ft) Woman puts out washing in garden of house (troops' accommodation ...
Ship journey. Diving, underwater footage of fish: puffer fish, rays. Location unclear. Some footage of South Africa: Table mountain. Duke & Duchess of Kent visit Owen Falls. Journey in middle east: Suez canal. Air journey: views of ...
Victoria Nile School sports day. Swimming scenes in swimming pools.
Visit of Queen Mother. Military parade in presence of Governer; Airforce fly past.
Shipboard scene (crossing the line?). Jinja sailing club. On the equator. Baby. Owen falls.
Jinja sailing club? Flora. Owen Falls - water stopped, September 1962
Voyage from Freetown to England on the M.V. Accra, showing various activities of the sailors and the passengers on board and different stops at unknown ports along the way.
Production / Donor Details: Mrs. Harley lived in the ...
Kumasi. Buying vegetables on allotments. Forestry work at camp Tinto, Bepu. Opening of the Assizes at Accra. Kumasi market. A murder Trial at Accra Court House. European adults & children at play. A Timber Mill. The Community Center & ...
Various scenes of a match at the open meeting of the Kumasi Golf club.
Production / Donor Details: Mrs. Harley lived in the Gold Coast during the 1940s-50s, where here uncle was a High Court Judge.
Film shows diplomatic life in Aden in 1967 at the end of British rule. Also includes military manoeuvres, and ends with sequences of the diplomatic staff making a bonfire of documents marked "Top Secret".
Also further ...
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
Recruitment Videos for the Hong Kong Police Department, showing various crisis scenarios involving police action, with captions: 'Imagine Hong Kong without our Police'; 'We need our Police'; 'The Police Need You'; 'Your first decision is a career ...
An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences in the Gold Coast.
The film's title appears on a blackboard, as an African instructor ...
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via waterworks - interior and exterior shots, also filtering beds and the reservoir.
Travelogue.
Examines the transition from a traditional rural way of life to the development of urban life in Papua New Guinea.
Presenter Nick Baker goes to the Falkland Islands to try and discover why its population of penguins has been steadily declining.
British television programme in six parts tracing the Falklands War from the perspective of the British and Argentinian military and political participants - interview rushes, archive footage, specially shot material and VHS copies of the transmitted ...
Independence in Fiji in October 1970.
Union flag flying, with words 'Independence for Fiji' superimposed. Union flag being taken down as part of the ceremonies at the Albert Park stadium, Suva, 9 October 1970. The Fijian flag. Prince ...
General picture of the country showing its economic, political and social progress.
George Scott examines Rhodesia - stresses the little relative impact of the white community, possible for Africans to compete with whites for jobs, amplifies the segregation which still exists, politics and African involvement in ...
Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and the latter is commissioned under false pretences to build a tomb where Seeta will be buried alive ...
Ceremonies surrounding the installation of the Queen Mother of Enyeresi.
Army Recruiting film following a group of recruits to the Intelligence Corps through their basic and trade training. They are shown learning drill and weapons handling and undertaking various kinds of fitness training before going on to be taught ...
Amateur film shot by Group-Captain Hugh Verity shows English Electric Canberra B.6. at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, before aerial and ground views of airfields en route to and from Singapore: Akrotiri (Cyprus), Bahrain, Karachi Civil, Katunayake ( ...
Amateur Army film intended to illustrate some of the methods used in dealing with EOKA terrorists in Cyprus. A British vehicle-mounted patrol demonstrates the correct counter-ambush drill, forcing the ambushers to quickly retreat. A tracker team ...
"Indo-China. Railroad War". An attack on a train by guerrillas in Indo-China. The train had armed guards who fought back. Scenes of repairs to the track which is bombed daily by the guerrillas - Viet-Minh. "Princess Elizabeth at ...
"El Salvador. Earthquake kills 2000". Aerial scenes of the destruction in and around Jucuapa. Some surivors at a hospital,(6-7.5.1951). "Sevenoaks. Women cricketers. Kent v. Australia". Scenes from the game. Kent are all out before ...
The United Nations and its first attempt to take direct and sole responsibility for governing a territory. The seven month control of West New Guinea.
Report on the latest developments in the South Atlantic crisis with an interview with John Nott, Secretary of State for Defence.
Recruitment film to encourage nurses and doctors to go to Rhodesia. Shows the terrain, work in the hospitals and public health work, and opportunities for research work. Then shows living conditions and night life etc.
PROPAGANDA. An account of the Suez crisis and the strategic position of British military bases in Cyprus, seen from an extreme right-wing viewpoint. The film is introduced by Canadian reporter Stanley Maxted (39). On a map of the Meditteranean, he ...
Tells the story of the erection in the sea of the movable drilling platform at Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
Home movie film of a trip to Fiji and Tahiti. Shots of Fiji include the Yacuta Hotel, the countryside and villages, sailing round the island by yacht and Fijian dances. Shots of Tahiti include a trip around the island, Robert L. Stevenson's house, the ...
The building up of the cocoa-processing industry in the Gold Coast.