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    ABOUT BRITAIN [ITV, 1970-1988]

    Documentary about a small town business in the Scottish borders that exports cashmere sweaters to Hong Kong.

     
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    FIRST TUESDAYGreat Britain

    Series of programmes which feature a variety of documentaries from the UK and abroad.

     
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    A legend of an emperors' love for a young man which turned Hong Kong's legislature in favour of homosexuality.

     
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    A report from Hong Kong at a time of change, with only a few hundred days until its lease reverts to China. Includes a ride in a leaky sampan, a night at the races, a game of tennis in the grounds of Government House, an interview with Governor Chris ...

     
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    Great Britain

    General survey of Kuwait, its oil, its ruler, social services, technological and agricultural advances among the Arab people, and a visit to the Majlis. Opens with an interview with three Kuwait students in Britain.

     
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    The co-op officer and the problems he encounters in Sarawak.

     
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    Great Britain, South Africa

    A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.

     
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    COLONY 1964

    BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOURGreat Britain

    A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.

     
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    GB

    Part of Command Activities Series

    Notes

    Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989

     
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    Rhodesia

    The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.

     
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    ROYAL MILITARY POLICE COLLECTIONGB

    Compilation of unedited video of the Falklands including vehicle recovery, disciplinary action, vehicle maintenance and general views of the countryside and roads.

     
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    Great Britain

    ACTUALITY. Members of the 1st Battalion, 2nd K.E.O. Gurkhas on active service in Borneo.

     
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    COOK REPORT

    Series in which investigative reporter Roger Cook looks at different cases of unscrupulous businesses. First in a resumed series. In this episode Cook investigates the ivory trade from East Africa to carving in Dubai and markets in Hong Kong ...

     
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    PRODUCTION MATERIAL FOR THE FALKLANDS WAR: THE UNTOLD STORYArgentina

    Argentinean documentary on the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

    Argentine military equipment being prepared for the Falkland Islands. Fleet sets sail ...

     
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    ROYAL MILITARY POLICE COLLECTIONGB

    I. Colour film of Royal Military Police in Aden, now Yemen, 1965 (ca).

    II. Gibraltar Military Police around town 1960 (ca).

    III. 101 Provost Marshal and 93 section Special Investigation Branch in Berlin ...

     
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    An introduction to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, including footage of fauna, flora and the local way of life, and showing the work of London Missionary Society/ CCWM (Congregational Council for World Mission) missions in the islands. The film follows ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A light comedy romance between a rich American diplomat and a Russian emigré princess from Hong Kong.

     
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    Rhodesia

    The sugar industry in Rhodesia, including:- 1960 Bulawayo trade show, the sugar pavillion and the visit by the Queen Mother, the Chirundu sugar estates, the processes involved in making and refining sugar.

     
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    Great Britain, USA

    A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills the chief, and is healed.

     
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    Carnival 1963

    TREASURE IN MALTA

    Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

     
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    Carroll Collection

    Includes various scenes of a family on safari in Tanzania (Tanganyika), showing the scenery that they drive through, the villages & people that they visit and meet and the kind of roads and bridges that they drive along. It has a few ...

     
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    Cleave Collection

    About 400' of wildlife, mostly in Uganda National Parks, shot between 1958 and 1966. NOT edited into a coherent film.

    Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

     
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    Cleave Collection

    A 275' edited record of the hand-over on Independence. Parade with the Governor handing over the PM Obote and some of the celebratory events that followed.

    March-past of the 4th Kings African Rifles.

    Multi-racial crowds at ...

     
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    Cleave Collection

    A compendium of wildlife and scenes mostly in Uganda's game parks, in those days excellent, and some from Karamoja. 1958-1966. Edited.

    Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

     
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    Crouch Collection

    VHS containing various film items illustrating Mr Crouch's life and travels as a British official in Southern Arabia. It shows many aspects of life in the desert, including stunning scenery, military patrols, good shots of the Hadhrami ...

     
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    Crouch Collection

    Family shots of Mr Crouch's engagement, wedding & honeymoon in East Africa. Back on duty in Aden, and other holiday footage.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Crouch served as a political officer in the Aden Protectorates and Aden ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to live in Zambia between 1957 and 1964. It examines their position in 1969, the effects of their fundamentalist beliefs in ...

     
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    German Federal Republic, Great Britain, South Africa

    Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.

     
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    BANNED

    Documentary report about the killing of three IRA operatives (Mairead Farrell, Daniel McCann and Sean Savage) by the SAS in Gibraltar. The programme asks whether they were gunned down because lives were at risk, or as a result of a deliberate ...

     
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    THIS WEEK [ITV/Thames TV, 1968-92]Great Britain

    A look at the report produced by Lord Windlesham and Richard Rampton QC on the programme THIS WEEK[28/04/88] about the shooting of three IRA suspects in Gibraltar by the SAS. The programme aroused much ...

     
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    DECEIVERS 1988

    Great Britain

    William Savage, a collector for the British East India Company is drawn into the Thug cult (a group which strangles and rob travellers) when he attempts to infiltrate their ranks.

     
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    TOWARDS BARUYA MANHOOD

    Shows the Baruya making decorations and other preparations for their male initiation ceremonies. The Chimya is "opened". The Yivupm bwaya undergo further preparations. The Baruya from the Marawaka valley arrive.

     
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    FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

    Scenes off Ascension Island; departure from Portsmouth on RFA Stromness; Sea Kings operate from Canberra off Ascension Island.

    Probably filmed from RFA Stromness at anchor off Ascension, troops come ...

     
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    Hong Kong

    Travelogue of Hong Kong

     
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    Development projects in Mexico, Burundi, Hong Kong and Tanzania illustrate the need or co-operation between develop-ing and developed

     
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    DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

    This week's discussion is on the argument recently made for selling British citizenship to wealthy Hong Kong Chinese in order to fund the repatriation of British Afro-Caribbeans.

     
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    DILEMMA 1979

    GB

    Made entirely on location in Belize, the film tells the parallel and overlapping stories of two men on the same squadron, one a Harrier pilot and the other a young technician. We are shown how both men are faced with the same dilemma - whether to ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY IN ANGOLA DURING OPERATION CHANTRESSGB

    ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST

    (The following data has been copied, without amendments, from Army Mobile News Team discs.)

    GVs of Army divers kiting up on dock side next to Sir Galahad ...

     
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    South Africa, Zambia

    A study in social transition, presenting the problem of a young village African who goes to work in the Rhodesian copper mines, but then, unable to come to terms with an industrial environment, feels himself drawn back to the simple ...

     
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    DIVISION 1975

    Great Britain

    Discussion on democracy in Australia, Rhodesia, Northern Ireland and particularly India.

     
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    ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

    A report on the tension between China and Hong Kong and the border clashes of 1967.

     
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    DOMINICA 1965

    THIS WEEK [ITV/Rediffusion, 1956-68]Great Britain

    A profile on Dominica.

     
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    CLOSE-UPCanada

    Politics in British Guiana.

     
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    GB

    Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, focusing on the "Dragon Squadron", based in Hong Kong. The Dragon Squadron is responsible for assisting the Hong Kong police in policing Hong Kong's waters. Includes scenes onboard patrol ships HMS Yarnton, HMS ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Deals with the Royal Tour of West Africa. (Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gam bia). Commentary spoken by Anthony Quayle.

     
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    WORLD IN ACTIONGreat Britain

    A report on Anguilla, with Robert Bradshaw and Sir Frederick Phillips.

     
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    Day Collection

    Footage from Mr Day's time as Senior Political Officer in the South Arabian Federation between 1964 and 1967.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Day entered HMOCS as Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate, in 1961. From 1964-67 he ...