AFRICAN SKYWAY 1940
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.
INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river.
TRAVELOGUE. A Pathé colour film showing African natives throwing cartridges into a river and catching the stunned fish.
DRAMA. An African setting. Ellen, a young woman, is forced to marry a rich man she dislikes, Krugg, for the sake of her father. The man she loves, Frank Logan, returns from a jungle expedition too late. On her wedding night Ellen is saved from Krugg's ...
African tribal dancing.
START 10:30:58 A family group of Kikuyu women perform domestic tasks such as preparing meals and looking after infants. A group of male elders seated in a semi-circle drink maize beer through long straws from the same pot.
10:32:58 Six women, ...
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...
Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.
"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education and agricultural development.
Reels one and two missing.
Reel three. Wesley College, Kumasi ...
Footage from the town of Imphal in ...