Harold Wilson explains the government's decision to send troops to Zambia and to tighten trade sanctions against Rhodesia.

Shows the long-term side of Oxfams's work through the example of Basutoland, whe re Oxfam is financing farmer training and other agricultural improvement project s Problem of soil erosion and farmers ignorance. How modern ideas and ...

The first parliamentary elections held in Uganda, 1960. Also travel sequences.

A train journey through Kenya to the coast by rail, by boat to Mozambique, and then by road to Capetown.

A safari round East Africa from Kampala in 1963 including: Murchison Falls National Park and Lake Victoria in Uganda, Crampton's Inn at Kitali and the highest road summit in Kenya. Momella Game Park and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika ...

Daily life, agriculture and industrial milieu, rural and urban life style, school scenes, sports, leisure, political campaigns . Carnival dancing. Political demonstrations . Speech by George Price-First Prime Minister. Opening of ...

Film on the deployment of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars to Sarawak during the Indonesian confrontation. Showing foot and vehicle patrols in Saladin and Ferret armoured cars, vehicle checkpoints and off-duty activities.

Extract of the Queen's activities from newsreels.

R.1: Visiting British Guyana, the first stop of the Caribean Tour since exception of the throne. Visiting Canterbury Cathedral.

R.2: Visiting Bayeux and celebrating its 900th ...

Unedited news film of the Queens Lancashire Regiment on security duties in Aden in September 1967 during the anti-British Insurgency shows soldiers off-duty in camp, searching Arab taxies and their passengers for arms at Checkpoint Bravo, cookhouse ...

Amateur film shot by RAF serviceman Bob Andrews while serving in RAF 105 Squadron and 114 Squadron with RAF Transport Command during the 1960s records ground and air views of transport and supply operations in the area ...

A light-hearted look at different ways people relax. Lilias Tougher, a teacher in the village of Great Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, and her husband Laurience are members of the English Westerners society, and dress up as Sioux ...

Shot in Hong Kong, the action takes place in the ramshackle settlement of refuge es known as Rennies Mill. Photography: James Normington Music: John Hotchkis