Account of the delights of fishing for tuna and other large fish.

Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.

The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and hired labourer, successfully harvests and sells his cocoa beans.

The commentator introduces Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa ...

Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is keen to improve and listens to the advice of the agricultural officer, while the other is lazy and ignores all ...

Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...

Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.

The film shows the role of the chief in stimulating economic and social progress and how European and African institutions operate side by side. It then shows ...

A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.

A white doctor's sister and her two daughters have recently arrived from England. The daughters discover a dry fish pond and ...

Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.

Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...

How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.

Pottery in Sierra Leone.

By means of a letter addressed to 'the members, Cinema Clubs for Girls and Boys, Great Britain', a young boy offers an insight into his life at the Wankie Game Reserve in Southern Rhodesia.

A boy's hand opens a letter addressed to ' ...

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm ...

Near Nairobi, Kenya. Africans build a good permanent house using mainly materials which are available on the spot.

In a local village a colonial official arrives in a car to help re-build a house for locals. The film commentary ...

The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.

An animated map is shown, followed by general views of the country, and its peop le and their work. Concluding with a horse race.

Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a village in Togoland where a primitive loom is still in use.

Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.

A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation of ground-nuts and cattle keeping.

Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.

DOCUMENTARY/PROPAGANDA. Rushes for an unreleased and unfinished production documenting various talented members of the black community in Britain.

207306A Scene 5 Take 1: Black man and white man at a night club join in applause. The ...

HOME MOVIES. Scenes of the sugar cane industry in British Guiana (Guyana).

Sugar cane loaded from boat onto a river bank. Man cutting down cane with a machete. Man carrying cane on head and throwing it into a large rectangular ...

ACTUALITY. The 1948 Conservative Party conference: Oliver Stanley's speech on the benefits brought to the colonies by private enterprise and R.A.Butler's presentation of the Agricultural Charter.

Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.

The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; the fibres used in rope-making.

Amateur footage of the Oxford University expedition to Gambia in 1948. Part 1. Packing the trucks in Oxford and on the road to Southampton. There are scenes on the boat out to Africa, followed by "transhipment onto and up river on board ...

A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined metal into pure copper bars.

Part 1. Milling Shows the various crushing and grinding machines, including: the primary ...

INTEREST. The work of the craftsmen in the Kenyan textile industry and the West African silversmiths and jewellers.

Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.

The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. Intended as one of a group of films made by the CFU showing the large towns of the Empire.

The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.

The lifestyle of the jungle nomads of the Malay Peninsular rainforest. Life with a nomadic tribe in Malaya, as seen through eyes of Loon, the son of the chief-man. The film shows the tribe setting up a new camp, collecting ...

Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added to at various stages of her life from birth to marriage.

An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.

Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...

HOME MOVIES. A trip to New York by the Eisner family, and scenes in British Guiana (Guyana).

View of Southampton docks as ship sails from it. The New York skyline viewed as ship enters port. New York street scenes. New York suburb ...

Leslie Henson's home movie. Sierra Leone. Leslie Henson with native girl. Game reserve. Natives

Newsreel coverage of an RAF photographic survey of East Africa.

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A mute educational film portraying life in a typical Malay village of fishermen and rice-farmers.

Brief titles introduce each sequence, but there is almost no comment, the film being left to speak for itself. The ...

Film about 'one of the prettiest villages in Malaya', which has become a centre for the curing of leprosy.

The film shows the village in detail; people working on the land; how leprosy can be cured; the early ...

Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.

The film shows: how people from many races have settled here; the way that the Malays live; the Chinese and their way of life; the role of the Europeans, the ' ...

How Malaya has developed its armed forces since the last war.

The Royal Malayan Navy, a small fleet with all the tradition of an ancient discipline, is profiled first; the ships are provided by Britain, the ...

A description of the operations and the versatility of Radio Malaya.

Every day "the voice of Malaya" broadcasts educational, information and entertainment programmes in four languages. Inhabitants are shown at ...

Reel 1: (Mixed Colour/B&W) IEME School at Kirkee (near Poona), prior to Indian Partition and the creation of Pakistan. British officers fire pistol and rifle on range. Bulldozer clears a malaria site. Indian/Pakistani soldiers pack up, prior to the ...

Offcuts. Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence ...

(B&W) Indian dignitaries await the arrival of Lord Mountbatten. Brief shot of Mountbatten stepping off the launch. He and Lady Mountbatten are greeted and introduced to the dignitaries. A shot of the people lined up ...

Guests arrive at Government House, New Delhi, and are greeted by Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Shots of Indian officers in ceremonial uniform, guests mingling in the background. Three American? Army officers (two are ...

Family scenes in the UK while on leave in the late 1930s and 1940s.

India street scenes with monkey trainer and rickshaw .Smartly dressed Europeans in a park setting with expensive large cars. Celebration party for Indian ...

Includes Jewish refugees in Cyprus.