A short clip of two European toddlers (the Roaches?), inside a bungalow, then playing on a beach. Some baby turtles swim in a bath. There is also a demonstration of rope making.

A short clip mainly around a confirmation service for many local girls dressed in white and accompanied by a large congregation outside of the standard corrugated roof church

A large gathering of formally dressed adults is seen surrounding a two storey non-native building. A group of formally dressed local children pose for the camera outside a church, and the elders disperse or pose to the camera. The Roach ...

Infant playing in garden. Wedding. Some landscape scenes.

Giant tortoise. Coastal and shipboard scenes. Hunting of sea turtles (possibly same footage as Roach 007?). Ships at sea. Coastal scenes, fairy tern. Views of coast from on board ship.

Family and home scenes.

The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard Jones. Jones, who was awarded the MBE, OBE and CBE for his work in the field of medicine, worked for the ...

HMS Glory leaves Grand Harbour, Valletta.

HA of HMS Glory as she leaves Malta, steaming left to right past the camera. The crew man the side, with Sea Furies parked abreast the island, and ...

I. The cruiser HMS Liverpool: MS from the eyes of her to the bridge and then a pan right to where focsle is being hosed down. MCU as signalman on 'A' turret makes by semaphore, "Liverpool" - camera then drops to ship's name plate. At anchor off ...

I. Hawker Sea Fury 098 takes off from Illustrious Class aircraft carrier. Safety barrier lifts behind aircraft.

II. Camera pans to follow small formations and individual Firefly aircraft as they fly past aircraft carrier.

III. Flight deck ...

I. Naval saluting: two ratings salute a Lieutenant who they encounter walking along a street (Portland ?); squad of ratings (belts, gaiters, white caps) make eyes left as they pass Lieutenant and Petty Officer; ratings in street look into funeral ...

I. MLS and MS off port bow of Dido Class light cruiser (HMS Euryalus ?) as she fires a salute.

II. LA approach to starboard bow of HMS Vanguard secured to a buoy in Grand Harbour, Malta. MS, camera tracking to cross port bow.

III. MCU of ...

Unedited scenes in Grand Harbour, Malta.

The aircraft carrier HMS Ocean enters Grand Harbour, Malta. Shots from the ship show Sliema Bay (castles, forts and pleasure boats). The crew stand to attention on deck, and ...

I. On the flight-deck of HMS Ocean, the firefighting crew stand alert in asbestos suits., carrying axes. Below deck, foam equipment is prepared. On deck, Hawker Sea Fury and Firefly aircraft taxi towards the camera; an FDO controls their movements ...

"One of the greatest tasks facing many countries today is to give back to the land its lost fruitfulness" - a study of Cyprus is used to illustrate this problem.

The film explains the depletion of the forests of ...

Gives an example of a supply drop to a jungle patrol, from the preparation necessary before a patrol sets out to the actual recovery of the supplies and their utilisation in the jungle.

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Film showing aspects of RAF operations in Malaya; Dakota transport aircraft drop supplies to soldiers in the jungle, rocket-armed late mark Spitfires take off from an airfield near Kuala Lumpur to attack insurgent targets, Lincoln bombers are armed ...

Lord Mountbatten with family and friends swimming and skin-diving from a launch.

There are also some shots of them boarding the launch from a warship (HMS Surprise?) and of local fishermen at work in harbour ( ...

A Malayan Film Unit film documenting the importance of following army procedure for airdrops of supplies in isolated areas of the jungle during the Emergency.

(Reel 1) Aerial views of the Malayan Jungle. Unit ...

A portrait of the Fleet Air Arm.

An introductory sequence depicts life at a British shore station of the FAA: opening shots of dinghies sailing near an aircraft carrier and other naval vessels, followed by scenes of ...

'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".

A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African folk tale. Why so many babies die - and what to do about it if you want the babies to live. Foriwa has a baby. Like many women ...

The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.

The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...

'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).

General account of the production of tobacco, with special reference to Southern Rhodesia; includes a study of an actual tobacco estate; with its seasonal activities and life in the native kraal.

Cultivation of tobacco, season by season on a Southern Rhodesian estate,from the preparation of the ground to the curing and grading of the leaves.

INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...

DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.

Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...

Illustrates primitive methods of iron smelting by means of account of methods used today by the Bantu peoples.

Celebrations in Zanzibar to mark the 70th birthday of the Sultan Seyyid Khalifa Bin Harub.

Attempts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese occupied Java.

Described by the voiceover as 'the true story of Mai Mangwende, the wife of Chief Mangwende of Southern Rhodesia and the African women's clubs she founded all over the Mangwende reserves'.

Mai Mangwende addresses a group of women in a ...

Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.

A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...

DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.

A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working of it. A British contribution to the Western genre.

4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.

Anthony Eden's Empire tour. The London County Council elections. Food rationing. The Young Conservatives' conference at Filey including a visit to Butlin's. Extract from Churchill's speech at the M.I.T. praising the deterrent powers of the ...

Coffee cultivation around the village of Marangu on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro.

A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.

A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...

The work of the Central Hospital, Elat, Cameroun, especially its care for lepers. The case of Moses Mvondo is followed from his father leaving him at the hospital to his cure three years later.

A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.

Scenes around a farm bought in Kenya.

KENYA GLIMPSES. Kenyan farm. Cattle, ox wagon, landscape, watering cattle, farmhouse, washing coffee berries. Sorting coffee. Lucerne (plant used as animal fodder) for cattle. Nairobi. Airport ...

Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.

A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...

Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.

The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; the history, geography and social life of the inhabitants.

Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in five weeks against top English amateur sides.

The African players, having arrived on 29 August 1949 in Liverpool, ...

Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.

The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit from the trees in their baskets and then carrying the baskets on their heads. The commentator explains that ...

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