Malaya
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 ...
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Jacobs Collection
Family, Masaka. Collection in general contains Queen's birthday celebrations, Independence celebrations, family on safari in Northern province, as well as daily life on an upcountry station
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Jeans Collection
British North Borneo: a birthday party at the Jeans' family bungalow and various domestic and rural shots. Port & coastal views from ship. Local market and colourful costumed festival ceremonies. Local agriculture with cultivation by ...
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Jeans Collection
Rural life scenes with local long houses. Opening Mission church. Jesselton railway station. Punch and Judy show at fair. Father Christmas visit by dingy
Rural air strip,buildings & take off. V.I P visit with cavalcade & airport ...
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Jeans Collection
Various aspects of European family and social life in Borneo. Country life fishing villlages. Empire Day military celebrations. Infant school life. Arrival of Father Christmas & school party. Guy Fawkes party .
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Jeans Collection
Coastal port town concentration on busy commercial life of local population. Harbour loading , unloading of craft. Lorry traffic into docks. Market and busy street scenes. River small ferry crossing with passengers. Funeral or ...
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Jones Collection
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 ...
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KENYA CAPITAL 1950
KenyaA celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.
"The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...
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KIM 1950
USAThe orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES 1950
USAIn 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown territory they find the skeleton in the mines, and are rescued from a wild native.
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King Collection
Various shots outside a church for a family christening. Brief shots of outside of hospital. Girls and boys acting out drama. Garden shots with teenager and geese, small boy and mother, dog and rabbit.
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King Collection
1.Welcome parades of Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and Police recruits, for High Commissioner's visit. 2. Family footage - Christening party. 3.Tennis courts.
4.Home bungalow with children playing in garden fish pond.
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Knowles Collection
Travel Film of Central Africa.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
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Knowles Collection
Views of Zambesi and Kota-Kota, Nyasaland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at ...
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Knowles Collection
Film of The Kruger National Park in South Africa; Wankie Reserve (now Hwange Park); and The Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...
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Knowles Collection
Aspects of African life in Basutoland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
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Knowles Collection
Flowers, shrubs and trees of Rhodesia showing their flowering seasons; city scenes and parks; wildlife in the bush.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...
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Knowles Collection
Views of Zanzibar
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, Salisbury, Southern ...
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Knowles Collection
Views of Vumba, Southern Rhodesia; mountain scenery, and the National Park of Southern Rhodesia including the ruins of the old city of Zimbabwe.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...
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Knowles Collection
Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...
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Nigeria
Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.
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LAKE HOLIDAY 1950
RhodesiaTravel film on the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika and the famous Kalambo Falls.
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Lawrence Collection
Cameron highlands
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he was ...
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Lawton Collection
Edited film with intertitles showing various schools in Rhodesia: Mission schools, tobacco farm school, 'Governemtn schools in the townships', Goromonzi Senior High. Pupils and students shown enagaging in various activities and ...
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