SPONGES The BAHAMAS 1938
Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.
Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.
Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors in their summerwear; in the city centre and shops; in the side streets. Compiled in 1937 and rearranged in ...
Scenes of Hong Kong, including: a variety of people in winter clothes; shops and shop signs; Christmas decorations in shops; the opening of a new church for Chinese Methodists; people in oriental costume; the native quarter (including a ...
The life of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the building of the Suez Canal.
Hong Kong scenes including: the Lido at Repulse Bay; a Chinese bathing club and Dragon Boat race; the filmmakers leave their house on a day trip; harvest time in the rice fields; the filmmakers' bungalow and the beach at Ting Kau.
British Honduras: scenes on a typical tour to find suitable land for agriculture, including a forestry survey with forest officers. Shows typical transport hazards.
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Basutoland: dam building and ploughing. shots of daughter Shirley.
Nyasaland: ferrying the car across the boundary river; the rail terminus; on the lake; loading rice at the lake port.
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A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY SPLITTING AND WEAVING PALM LEAVES
Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.
Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform n front of a large temple. Shots of the temple buildings, showing carvings (98). Priest tolling a bell (103 ...
Amateur film by A F (Mac) McKenna of a visit with friends ? to the Khyber Pass and Srinagar, Kashmir.
Shot of the frontier at the Khyber Pass. A car parked at the barrier, two British women (one wearing trilby is ...