Scenes at refugee camp Punjab, Northwest India.

Brief shot of Lady Mountbatten talking to people at a refugee camp. Two men in a street take leaflets from a man in a bookshop. Refugees ...

Outline of the Royal Family's tour of Southern Rhodesia in 1947.

Landscape. A plane lands at Salisbury; George VI and Princess Margaret step out. A second plane arrives; Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth are greeted by Sir John ...

INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down Mall. Boarding train at Waterloo Station (22). Boarding H.M.S. Vanquard at Portsmouth (32). Sitting on deck ...

Report on the Royal visit.

(Reel 1) Two Army Kinema Corporation (AKC) representatives and two Royal Engineers (RE) introduce each other and discuss a proposed army training film about sappers' tasks. The engineers want to use real footage to contextualise these tasks. A chart ...

St Paul's cathedral, Calcutta. An Indian man and woman and three British children walk through the cathedral gate towards the camera. Three Indian men pose in front of a door, they walk away to reveal a brass sign ' ...

Story of pearl smuggler's adventures in Singapore.

A story of Rhodesia intended for potential European immigrants. The film highlights the contemporary conditions of life there, outlining the main industries and the standard of living for the African and white inhabitants.

Opening ...

A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and the prevention of soil erosion.

The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.

Comprehensive pictures of the history of tea.

Views of a military display by Indian troops. Manipuri? dancers perform. More troops and a military band march past. A motorcycle display. More Manipuri? dancing.

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Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson ...

Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.

(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...

Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.

Offcuts from several of Colonel Hodgkinson's films.

Aerial shots of a river and surrounding jungle. Brief shot of vehicles ascending a mountain track, some snow on adjacent ...

"Cecil Rhodes brought peace to what is now Southern Africa. The Africans were a primitive people...superstitious and wasteful...". An African describes what his people have learnt from the white man: new and improved crops, soil erosion, ...

I. India. Mountbatten, accompanied by his wife, arrives in Delhi to take over as Viceroy. Airport ceremonies (Nehru); Mountbatten visits his predecessor Wavell and is visited by Gandhi (conversation during walk in garden ...

I. International Youth Congress in Munich. Delegates accommodated in Hotel City (converted bunker); conference scenes, with notable guests including Andr Gide (who later speaks) and Ernst Wiechert; proceedings opened by Harry ...

I. Research in bees and beekeeping at institute near Celle.

II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. General Keating opens 'Biennial Exposition' in US Zone of Berlin: some of the stands (trade, 'CARE' packets, information ...

I. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Miners at the Achenbach pit receive CARE parcels (100,000 from US Zone) as incentive/reward. b. Frankfurt's Burgermeister awards Goethe prize for philosophy to Karl Jaspers. c. Wrttemberg ...

I. "Small change once more." Introductory shots of German shoppers using postage stamps for small change owing to shortage of coin; Bavarian Minister President Ehard and US Governor Van Wagoner at Munich mint start up presses, ...

I. Factory in Germany produces "5 million pairs of spectacles every year": quite good film of lens cutting, grinding, mounting etc.

II. Nicaragua: South America's largest gold field maintained by air link with outside ( ...

BBC cameraman David Prosser provides the commentary for the film he shot of the flight by RAF Lancaster to within 900 miles of the North Pole, an "important landmark in the work of the Empire Air Navigation School".

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Record for regimental historical purposes of the presentation of new colours to the 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D L A Gibbs, in Singapore on 10 July 1947.

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