Survey of present-day Hong Kong with particular emphasis on the appalling slum conditions.

Scenes in Malaya 1957

Production / Donor Details: This film was shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this ...

Merdeka in Malaysia

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he was ...

Holiday in Northern Rhodesia with tourist shots. District officer on Safari around Lake Tanganyika. Lake traffic. Boats. Afrian local Ferries. Lake steam freighter. Shoreside villages with life and scenery.

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Independence Day celebrations in Malaya, 31 August 1957.

Over shots of government buildings, the British voiceover introduces the film; ‘The eve of Independence, we decorate our towns and await our great moment ...

Royal Visit by Duke of Edinburgh to Conference of Chiefs in Rural setting. Formal speech by the Duke. Visit to Agricultural Show by the Duke. Extended sequence of Agricultural show held at the site of "Jendi Rice" experimental farm ...

Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl from Marseille, with whom he finally settles down after a series of incidents with both black and white people.

Problems faced in bringing law and order, health services and schools, etc., to the isolated communities on the mainland of New Guinea and the Islands of the Bismarck Archipeligo.

Political broadcast. Part of a regular press conference given for London correspondents of foreign papers. The questions are answered by Herbert Bowden, James Griffiths and Hugh Gaitskell.

Topics covered include, ...

Prince Philip's visit to Gambia; a crocodile shoot in the jungle; presiding at a gathering of Gambia chiefs.

Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, 1956-1957.

Gambia, "one of Britain's oldest connections in Africa, and certainly one of the happiest", prepares to ...

Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.

Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in 1949 - hence film probably made in 1957 - Lady Limerick laying foundation stone (in 1951) - men's ...