King Jimmy Market/ Waterslide Market/ Sulima
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the ...
Freetown/Sussex
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...
Scenes in Sierra Leone
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...
At home in Sierra Leone
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...
Aeroplane landing.
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...
Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the coast. Views of pools by the river used to wash for diamonds; views of a market; views of steam ...
The family and friends play in the gardens, on the beach and in the waters of Sussex Bay. We are introduced to the flowers and shrubs of the garden, the company launch, two new puppies a glance at the outside of the new house and ...
This film occurs totally on or near the waterside, river delta or harbour. The latter part appears most likely to be at Freetown, Sierra Leone. In the early stages some bird life is featured but by the end of the reel we are ...
This film includes footage of Kuta Belud airstrip, Kinabulu Mountain, extensive manoeuvres of the Royal Marines in Sabah, and scenes of local people. Some film is shot from a helicopter.
Production / Donor Details: Sir ...
This film shows European families emjoying a day out at a regatta at Jesselton on the west coast of British North Borneo, now Sabah. It includes shots of picnics, swimming and sailing races.
Production / Donor Details: Sir Jack ...
This film contains family scenes of his wife and four children at their residence. Sequences of a market in Kota Belud with food and craft vendors. The celebration of the Queen's birthday with a Sabah official being carried by six men ...
This film includes a short section of Singapore followed by a helicopter flight in Kota Belud. Then a sequence of a Bajau mounted escort for the visit of John Profumo, then Secretary of State for War, and General Hull to British North ...
A video made for Steel Brothers from original 35mm film to record their timber operations in the forests of Burma in the 1930s and 1940s.
Production / Donor Details: David Bolland filmed his collection in India between 1952 and ...
An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao of Kotah. Introduced by Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah, speaking from Brijraj Bhawan, the erstwhile British Residency in ...
VIP visits to Kotah: Viceroy Lord Reading 1924; Maharajah of Baroda 1927; Nawab of Tonk 1928; Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir 1934. Copies of Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah's 16 mm films, with his commentaries.
Production / Donor ...
Mysore Keddah 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary Mysore etc. 1952; Bangalore, Kyathevargudi (Bison Shoot) 1953; Bandipur Game Sanctuary 1958; Periyar Game Sanctuary 1953; Karauti Shikar 1954; Gwalior Shikar 1960. Also: Life in Mayo College ...
Scenes in Cawnpore 1942: Snake charmers Auxiliary Force Camp (Home Guard). Aircraft crash (Lockheed "Lysander") at Cawnpore Aerodrome. Self on bike at home, Albert Road. Bathing in the River Ganges 1943: At Simla (a hill station ...
Scenes in Cawnpore
Scenes in Cawnpore (Kanpur): Cricket on Green Park.
Outside the bungalow at 13 Albert Road
"Ordnance Club" secretary and staff.
Friends
At Simla in the Himalayas 1944-45.
Government House and views ( ...
Monkey wallahs in Cawnpore (Kanpur). Agra: the Taj Mahal getting a face lift. Agra: the fort Ranikhet - a hill station in the Himalayas. Summer bungalow Cawnpore: goats with servants' children. 1948 Memorial service to Mahatama ...
Kencho School. Riding. Tea estate. Swimming in dam. Hydro Electic Dam. Uganda. Ripon falls, Jinja. Kampala. Terracing. Pygmies, Bundibugyo. Gorillas. General views of volcanic countryside with distant volcanoes. Tororo. Nairobi Trade ...
Amboseli game park. During drought. Lions, Cheetah. Mirage. Masai camp; Maribu stork; river, hippos, crocs. Women carrying loads in Rift valley, Kabianga, 1961.
Docks. Crossing the line events. Paraa game reserve in Uganda. Muchison Falls. Boat trip up river to the falls. Hippo, crocs. Docks, boat leaving. Crossing the line events
