Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander of 14th Army, is honoured with performances of traditional Burmese entertainments at Monywa, northwest ...

Scenes of Burmese civilian life in a large village in the Arakan region of Burma, five miles from Kindaunggyi, on the banks of the Tanlwe Chaung (river ...

For the first time since the liberation of Rangoon, Burma, almost a year previously, the people of the city celebrate the Water Festival with lavish ...

After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia ...

In Surabaya a large pall of smoke hangs over a burning kampong or village. Two Chinese civilians approach carrying their belongings; the leading man carries a small Chinese flag to ...

Nature story about a young colonial girl lost in the African wilderness with her pet bushbaby.

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 ...

Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows part of flight in Imperial Airways Handley Page Hannibal passenger plane named Hengist (AAXE) over Middle East, landing for refuelling in ...

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.

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Military band performing on the march at a military establishment (Poor focus). Celebrations and parade, probably in Nicosia on Greek ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Greek wedding & party and Greek Orthodox priest. Country life. Camels. Floods. Forests. Troodos Mountians. Coastal scenery. Coastal ...

Title falsely suggests the film is a story of a summer holiday in the Troodos mountains. There are some scenes from Cyprus but many more are of scenes in Britain. Extensive sequence of general and external views of Durham Cathedral, ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies. Fancy Dress; arrival of Father Christmas on a decorated donkey cart. Coastal scenery. Byzantine & Roman ruins, ...

Various scenes in and around a girls school on the Niger Delta.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and ...

Negative exposed reel of Basden Collection 4

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

King Jimmy Market/ Waterslide Market/ Sulima

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 ...

Freetown/Sussex

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; the ...

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; ...

At home 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; ...

Aeroplane landing.

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; the ...

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 ...

The family and friends play in the gardens, on the beach and in the waters of Sussex Bay. We are introduced to the flowers and shrubs of the garden, the company launch, two new puppies a glance at the outside of the new house and ...

This film occurs totally on or near the waterside, river delta or harbour. The latter part appears most likely to be at Freetown, Sierra Leone. In the early stages some bird life is featured but by the end of the reel we are ...

This film includes footage of Kuta Belud airstrip, Kinabulu Mountain, extensive manoeuvres of the Royal Marines in Sabah, and scenes of local people. Some film is shot from a helicopter.

Production / Donor Details: Sir ...

This film shows European families emjoying a day out at a regatta at Jesselton on the west coast of British North Borneo, now Sabah. It includes shots of picnics, swimming and sailing races.

Production / Donor Details: Sir Jack ...

This film contains family scenes of his wife and four children at their residence. Sequences of a market in Kota Belud with food and craft vendors. The celebration of the Queen's birthday with a Sabah official being carried by six men ...

This film includes a short section of Singapore followed by a helicopter flight in Kota Belud. Then a sequence of a Bajau mounted escort for the visit of John Profumo, then Secretary of State for War, and General Hull to British North ...

A video made for Steel Brothers from original 35mm film to record their timber operations in the forests of Burma in the 1930s and 1940s.

Production / Donor Details: David Bolland filmed his collection in India between 1952 and ...

An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao of Kotah. Introduced by Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah, speaking from Brijraj Bhawan, the erstwhile British Residency in ...

VIP visits to Kotah: Viceroy Lord Reading 1924; Maharajah of Baroda 1927; Nawab of Tonk 1928; Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir 1934. Copies of Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah's 16 mm films, with his commentaries.

Production / Donor ...

Mysore Keddah 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary Mysore etc. 1952; Bangalore, Kyathevargudi (Bison Shoot) 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary 1958; Periyar Game Sanctuary 1953; Karauti Shikar 1954; Gwalior Shikar 1960. Also: Life in Mayo College ...

Scenes in Cawnpore 1942: Snake charmers Auxiliary Force Camp (Home Guard). Aircraft crash (Lockheed "Lysander") at Cawnpore Aerodrome. Self on bike at home, Albert Road. Bathing in the River Ganges 1943: At Simla (a hill station ...

Scenes in Cawnpore

Scenes in Cawnpore (Kanpur): Cricket on Green Park.

Outside the bungalow at 13 Albert Road

"Ordnance Club" secretary and staff.

Friends

At Simla in the Himalayas 1944-45.

Government House and views ( ...

Monkey wallahs in Cawnpore (Kanpur). Agra: the Taj Mahal getting a face lift. Agra: the fort Ranikhet - a hill station in the Himalayas. Summer bungalow Cawnpore: goats with servants' children. 1948 Memorial service to Mahatama ...

Kencho School. Riding. Tea estate. Swimming in dam. Hydro Electic Dam. Uganda. Ripon falls, Jinja. Kampala. Terracing. Pygmies, Bundibugyo. Gorillas. General views of volcanic countryside with distant volcanoes. Tororo. Nairobi Trade ...

Amboseli game park. During drought. Lions, Cheetah. Mirage. Masai camp; Maribu stork; river, hippos, crocs. Women carrying loads in Rift valley, Kabianga, 1961.

Docks. Crossing the line events. Paraa game reserve in Uganda. Muchison Falls. Boat trip up river to the falls. Hippo, crocs. Docks, boat leaving. Crossing the line events