ROSE OF THE ORIENT 1935
General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.
General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.
The production of rubber.
The preparation of nurseries. Budgrafting at one year old, extracting, trimming and inserting a bud patch. The budgraft six months later. Tapping a young tree. Bringing in and checking latex, coagulating latex, machining ...
Amateur film. Monkey dance in Kuki village in Manipur State Assam.
Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).
Interest. Settlers in Palestine search for water and having done so, find prosperity.
Credits (146). Pair of legs walk along a railway track and along a dirt track through rocks and desert land; dust is blown up around him and he fords streams ...
THE DUKE IN NEW ZEALAND. HRH enters port aboard warship "Australia" with N.Z. ships escorting. (194) The Duke's tour continues with a visit to the races. (114) THE MAHARAJAH OF NEPAL VISITS DELHI. (95) "MACON" DISASTER. Shots of the airship before the ...
Shanghai harbour and river frontage with shipping traffic. Peking, The Forbidden City. River approach to Shanghai. Hong Kong Primary School sports day at The Peak. Atmospheric street scenes. The harbour and bay busy with wide ...
Goose keeping and cattle culture in the New Territories. Stormy weather in Hong Kong harbour with approaching typhoon. 1935 Jubilee celebration with carnival processions. Military marching band. Chung Chow. Very rough weather in the ...
Hong Kong harbour. Stormy weather with typhoon approach. Singapore zoo. Shipboard family life on board the liner Rawalpindi. Aden port and town. Marina Hotel. Pyramids in Egypt. Cairo city scenes. Port Said harbour front.
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Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.
Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...
Hong Kong harbour. Ferry and harbour traffic. Tour of the busy centre of the Colony. Sailing junks under sail and tied up in the basin of the harbour. Approach to the river port of Shanghai as seen from an arriving ocean liner. ...
Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.
The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...
A general outline of officer training at RAF Cranwell which culminates in an appeal for recruits.
150 pupils, including citizens from the Empire (a turbaned Indian is visible in a parade), undergo a two-year training ...
The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed in the colony.
The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.
Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on its journey in the Himalayas. Views of the tea-gardens with waterfalls (118). A ...
A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER MEDICINE WOMEN>
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a local looking at a sign post 'To Kingolwira'. The African sets off in this direction and comes to a ...
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
AMATEUR. Film of Burma.
Dam. Street scenes - Arab costumes possibly Sudan. Coronation Coach in Britain - Jubilee procession for George V. Dam again. Grandstand at racecourse? River journey through Burma. Giant Buddhas.
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TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE HONEY> IS MADE INTO A TYPE OF BEER>BY HEATING, STRAINING, AND EXTRACTION
Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. He is astonished to find he is actually the descendant of an African queen, and resolves to return to his native country to ...
Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.
An African man, 'a typical case of chronic hookworm', describes his symptoms to a friend. The film shows a close-up of the type of worms ...
Travelogue of India; edited from material supplied by the Government of India.
The Governor General Lord Clarendon opens the Empire Exhibition at Milner Park, Johannesburg, on September 15th 1936. Some of the features of the exhibition are shown.
The production of cocoa beans in the Gold Coast and their shipment to England.
After an opening title explaining that 'most of the raw cocoa used in England grows in Africa on the Gold Coast - a part of the British Empire', a map of ...
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape Colony.
Rhodes of Africa was the first screen biography of Cecil Rhodes. Four previous attempts to ...
Filmed scenes of Palestine to illustrate Biblical sayings and images.
Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.
A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY
Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
INTEREST. A native of the Mashanne tribe plucks, with tweezers, the beard of a native of the Dabarra tribe (85). [16mm]
ACTUALITY. Indians gathering honey from trees.
L.S. man in top branches of a tree lowering a basket of honey to the ground (16). An Indian, at the foot of the tree, throws a rope into the branches. The honey gatherer climbs up the ...
The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.
The film opens with a line of African men in uniform who have been selected for a course in which they will learn 'the future of animal husbandry'. A European ...
Baghdad: - suk, forbidden Muharram festival procession and back street scenes. Kuwait:- 'id al Adha, bedu camp, Gerald de Gaurey - political resident coming ashore.
INTEREST. A woman potter from the Quambo tribe of northern South-West Africa is seen at work. She works smoking a pipe and has some "Omepo" plant in her ear to prevent deafness. Smoothing the interior and exterior of pot with a shell. ...
Everyday use of asphalt for roadmaking and roofing are followed by a description of the Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad, the work at the lakeside, in the refineries and in the barrel factory. The mechanised making and filling of barrels is ...
Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows and calves; he talks to African herdsmen. `All is well, Bwana': various farm animals; sheep shearing; oxen pull ...
Gibraltar. Harbour. Town and street life. Aircraft carrier at anchor with fly past of Gloucester Gladiator fighters. Family holiday in New Zealand. Peking: Forbidden city, Temple of Heaven. Tourists on Great Wall of China. Hong Kong ...
Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by L.L.R. Buckland, a civil engineer in the Tanganyika Public Works ...
Coastal scenes around Hong Kong. The sea front of Hong Kong city from the sea.
Shanghai ?. Chinese street scenes with wedding procession. City centre with palace and Pagoda. Mass Chinese wedding with posed formal photograph and ...
Market scene, cattle in river, village scene with elephant and wild deer; more elephants, village scene, coconuts, bats in trees. Flowers in park, Cabbage Palm Avenue, street scenes, lake, elephants in river, view of lake, street ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation of film and crude animated maps, the film's principle concern being the importance of communication to ...
Amateur film without titles shot by the Deputy-Prime Minister of Johore (Malaya), Abdul Azis, records distant views of a Wehrmacht parade and overhead Luftwaffe flypast, and views of Baden Baden where he was taking the waters with his wife, and where ...
(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
Voyage out on troopship Dorsetshire from Liverpool to Port Said (Egypt), through Suez Canal and Red Sea, past oil tanks and Arab dhows ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
Sign to and view of Chakdara Fort. Urban and agricultural scenes in Northern India. Road marker sign to Kulu and Pandoh in Himalayas. ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
British adults and children, wearing solar topees, attend fete at Churat. British soldiers (presumably Highland Light Infantry) with ...