RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.

The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...

Part of Command Activities Series

Notes

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

Report examines Gibraltar's precarious economic situation and the Rock's strategic importance to Britain.

Too small for industry, declining in importance as a passenger and trade sea-port, dependent on hostile Spain ...

The Duke of Edinburgh's South American tour.

Specific aim of tour was to discover opportunities for British business in this potentially wealthy continent which Britain helped develop last century, but which has ...

Kenya government's Land Development and Settlement Board scheme to encourage Africans to return to the land and farm small five to ten acre plots is forcing large landowners in scheduled areas to sell up . Two such farmers, an English settler living ...

Report from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, follows the apparently similar working day of a middle-class white, a butcher, and a middle-class African, a brewery representative, then lets a group of whites and a group of ...

Report on "Operation Noah" and on efforts to tackle another ecological problem created by the construction of the Kariba Dam, the spread of a floating water fern.

Wildlife is being stranded on small islands behind ...

British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.

British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...

Politics in British Guiana.

Melodrama dealing with racism. Centres on domestic difficulties which develop in a working class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican.

Federal Flashes - mobile canteen accepted by mayor of Lusaka, CAA new service to Kitwe, Terry Sullivan runs mile in 4min 19sec.

New Industry - diamond cutting factory.

B.S.A.P. Training - aspects ...

Nyasaland Round Up - funeral of missionary bishop at St Paul's Church, Blantyre, outward bound course, new primary school.

New Luxury Hotel - Edinburgh hotel, Copperbelt.

Sports report - Gwelo, ...

Round Up - Roy Rogers interview, Gary Hockings returns from Europe, commemoration service.

TV for Schools.

The Congo Tragedy -scenes of security measures on the border, food parcels, Red Cross ...

Federal Fortnight - including, consecration of the bells of Salisbury Cathedral, opening of Chibero Agricultural College, opening of Lusaka's new railway station.

Wheat Breakthrough - wheat experimental ...

Round the Federation - including, opening of National Archives, minature railway, May queen fair in Nyasaland, beauty contest in Lusaka.

Lucky Couple visit Federation - Mrs. Anne Walsh and husband win ...

News in Brief - Salisbury heliport, opening of bottling plant, acting Governor General visits Nyasaland.

TV for Bulawayo - Sir Michael Barrow opens.

Harvest Festival - south Salisbury.

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