Close bombardment of Sabang by Dutch cruiser Tromp and RN and RAN destroyers. Cameraship was HMS Quality (?)
LS of battle fleet on the horizon - Illustrious Class carrier and ...
I. HMS Ceylon in port at Colombo. MS of Reverend Stephenson, the ship's chaplain, talking with Ceylonese dignitaries - Mr Mamujee, Mr de Silva and Mr Corea. Royal Marine band plays. MS pan right to left across ...
War with Japan.
Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...
This RAF instructional film shows the Supermarine Spitfire's various rles in different theatres of war and traces the aircraft's evolution from the victory of the Supermarine S-5 in the ...
START 10:16:40 A view of a conical hill or kopje overlooking Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley and shots showing two Royal Navy officers, assisted by an African guide, scaling the peak and the panorama from this vantage point overlooking the south ...
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, ...
START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...
START 10:59:20 Scenes at Kisumu, Kenya's main harbour on Lake Victoria: timber is unloaded onto the quayside by a steam-driven dockside crane from a Lake steamer and African troops from the Belgian Congo embark on board the SS Rusinga, another vessel ...
START 10:00:15 Filmed from their small fishing boat, Ugandan fishermen cast a net in shallow water on Lake Victoria. A woman purchases fish for cash. Back on shore, teams of fishermen haul in nets and collect flat fish and a local breed of eel (?). A ...
START 10:15:15 An African man demonstrates how to start a fire, using a straight wooden stick and a flat section of wood similar in size and shape to a six inch ruler in which three semi-circular indentations have been made. Heat created by the ...
