Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School at Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia. Features missionaries Mabel Shaw and Winifred Bishop.

Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).

Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the horse over the 'Downs'. Good shots of the Indian servants.

Meeting of the 'Fox Hunters' with their pack ...

I. Reel One. Newly decorated naval officers outside Buckingham Palace - a Lieutenant shows his wife his medal in its presentation case.

II. Minelaying. LS off the port bow of HMS Plover steaming in ...

I. Rushes for the instructional film "Boats and Boatwork", A.64. Cutters and ketches.

II. Naval material. HA.MLS of Thames Class submarine in Grand Harbour, Malta. MS profile of Sealion Class and forward 3/4 MS of Thames Class submarines. ...

20 November. One of the supply ships of the first convoy to enter Tobruk since its capture by the Eighth Army moves across the harbour with a navy patrol boat passing in the foreground. Another boat ...

Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...

Shots taken in Western Desert around Matruh, Egypt. Madrassi sappers at work on anti-tank ditch with pneumatic drill. Further shots of Madrassi sappers, Cameronians filling sandbags, RHA building pillbox ...

139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.

Notes

139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...

First Italian prisoners arrive in Palestine, by train at Latroun. They disembark and run or walk to cookhouse for meal. Prisoners receiving food and eating. Australian sentries. Prisoners march off to ...

I. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, with senior British officers serving with Middle East Command in the grounds of the British Embassy in Cairo; among them are Major-General Richard O'Connor, commander of the 6th Division, and ...

Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does not shirk her responsibilities to her colonies."

An opening sequence of maps and stock shots ...

Ford mobile canteens involved in the blitz and in ceremonies.

The film is divided into 4 numbered and titled sections. "H M the Queen inspects Ford-built mobile canteens" The queen inspects mobile ...

I. Prague Trade Fair. Economic success of German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is demonstrated at Prague Trade Fair. Interior scenes include an electric train, while outside visitors inspect a locomotive.

II. Hitler Youth rowing and ...

I. Consequences of breakdown in Anglo-French relations for military situation in North Africa. Captured British film of Army exercises in Egypt, showing artillery practice, camel troops and Indian soldiers ("mercenaries from all over the world") ...

I. Tientsin.

British soldiers detrain on the quayside and form up before embarking on the Tak Sang out of Hong Kong. Surrender of Britain to Japanese pressure to evacuate this Far Eastern garrison is described as a ...

Bata employees celebrate St Wenceslas Day (28 September) and proclaim Czech solidarity with the British Allies' fight for freedom.

Commentary describes over views of Indian jungle and the Bata Shoe Company model ...

Film combines library material with actuality footage and specially recorded sequences. Spitfires Squadron scramble to intercept Heinkel He 111s reported by Royal Observer Corps spotters. Control centre gives orders ...

Tarzan rescues a party of explorers after gold, who have kidnapped Boy and Jane, from the inroads of a savage tribe.

Film about life in a typical English village. The people in the film go about their daily business: women are doing the laundry and other housework; the children go to school, where, amongst other things the girls are taught how to use a ...

"THE REGENTS PARK ZOO TAKES CENSUS OF ITS RESIDENTS" (53-65); MS a keeper preparing to make a note in a book (70); the keeper looking at two polar bears, in an enclosure (77); CS polar bears (80); large brown bear (83); MS bear ...

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A tour of Martinique, Trinidad, Barbados and Tobago.

Amateur film. Mauritius - local scenery and residents.