DOCUMENTARY. Sections of footage showing African wildlife and penguins.
MCU pile of film cans, the top can is marked with Cherry Kearton's signature, a reel of film is taken from this can (14). Main title (16). Gap (16). MCU herd ...
A record of Sir Alan Cobham's flight from London (Stag Lane) to the Cape Town South Africa. The flight - the Imperial Airway Survey Flight - was made for the purpose of investigating the possibilities of aviation in Africa.
Main ...
THE PRINCE OF WALES TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA, MAY-JULY 1925
Compilation film of events in Arabia, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.
A portrait still of Colonel T E Lawrence. The embarkation of supplies and sheep on SS Ozarda at Port Said, the journey to Jidda, ...
The Dugmore-Harris expedition to East Africa which was made to photograph wildlife in its natural surroundings. From a hide by a water-hole the following are observed:-
R1.1. Oryx (401-587); Marabou stork (589-752); eagle (735-775); ...
The film opens with a globe, on which Zanzibar is highlighted. The titles outline the role of the island as 'one of the most important centres for the commerce of the Indian ocean' as the film shows shots of a local market. ...
The lying in state of the body of Sir Ernest Shackleton in Montevideo, Uruguay, and its transfer to ship for burial on the island of South Georgia, 1922.
The film opens with a portrait still of Shackleton, ...
Incomplete film on the RAF airmail service between Cairo and Baghdad, 1921-1926.
(Reel 1) The film compares the old ways of the desert with modern technology by starting with an Arab camel train coming to rest at an ...
Scenes of traditional Indian life in the mid-1920s.
The film appears to start in Calcutta with street scenes, and views of some of the buildings, both Western and Eastern in influence. A funeral procession takes ...
Record (with intertitles) for regimental historical purposes of the blessing, presentation and trooping of the Silver Drums by the 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel F S Montague ...
