Shows traditional methods of pottery making, basket weaving, the making of hunti ng weapons, boat building and ceremonial dances in East Africa.

Footage of Nandi tribal dancing. Recruiting for the Kings African Rifles. The Turkana tribe preparing meals and dancing. WaTesio dancers, Luo dances, Yenga dances and the Sugundi Dance followed by the Elkony dances. Agricultural practices ...

Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.

Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and workers at the salt lake. Making of bark cloth by traditional methods at Masaka. The Battima tribe and their cattle near Mbarara. ...

RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.

A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...

Funeral cortege through centre of Salisbury (later Harare) of the Governor of Southern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), Vice-Admiral Sir William Eric Campbell Tait, formerly Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic.

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Summary: Governor from 20 Feb ...

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 ...

Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are forced to escape from the Germans down the river in an old boat and conceive a plan to improvise torpedos to attach to the ...

Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.

A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...

Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.

Amateur. A European family holidaying in Africa.

Beach hut on island. Boat out at sea. Africans dancing and drinking beer. European boy dances with them. African teaches European man to throw fishing net. Family scenes at home ( ...

I. The cruiser HMS Liverpool: MS from the eyes of her to the bridge and then a pan right to where focsle is being hosed down. MCU as signalman on 'A' turret makes by semaphore, "Liverpool" - camera then drops to ship's name plate. At anchor off ...

Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions on the Pindale to Mahlaing road, Burma.

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As the fight for Burma's second city of Mandalay continues Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal, visits Mandalay Hill with Generals Slim, Rees and others ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command and Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon visit the IAF (Indian ...

Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong.

A bare-metal RAF Douglas Dakota ...

The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his wife at Alipore airfield, near ...

Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...

Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.

RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at dispersal with ...

Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.

Brief film showing part of an air-sea rescue exercise with an airborne lifeboat Mk II near Singapore.

Six men onboard a motor launch trying to ...

Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.

LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...

Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...