General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.

The production of rubber.

The preparation of nurseries. Budgrafting at one year old, extracting, trimming and inserting a bud patch. The budgraft six months later. Tapping a young tree. Bringing in and checking latex, coagulating latex, machining ...

Amateur film. Monkey dance in Kuki village in Manipur State Assam.

Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).

Interest. Settlers in Palestine search for water and having done so, find prosperity.

Credits (146). Pair of legs walk along a railway track and along a dirt track through rocks and desert land; dust is blown up around him and he fords streams ...

THE DUKE IN NEW ZEALAND. HRH enters port aboard warship "Australia" with N.Z. ships escorting. (194) The Duke's tour continues with a visit to the races. (114) THE MAHARAJAH OF NEPAL VISITS DELHI. (95) "MACON" DISASTER. Shots of the airship before the ...

Shanghai harbour and river frontage with shipping traffic. Peking, The Forbidden City. River approach to Shanghai. Hong Kong Primary School sports day at The Peak. Atmospheric street scenes. The harbour and bay busy with wide ...

Goose keeping and cattle culture in the New Territories. Stormy weather in Hong Kong harbour with approaching typhoon. 1935 Jubilee celebration with carnival processions. Military marching band. Chung Chow. Very rough weather in the ...

Hong Kong harbour. Stormy weather with typhoon approach. Singapore zoo. Shipboard family life on board the liner Rawalpindi. Aden port and town. Marina Hotel. Pyramids in Egypt. Cairo city scenes. Port Said harbour front.

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Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.

Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...

Hong Kong harbour. Ferry and harbour traffic. Tour of the busy centre of the Colony. Sailing junks under sail and tied up in the basin of the harbour. Approach to the river port of Shanghai as seen from an arriving ocean liner. ...

Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.

The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...

A general outline of officer training at RAF Cranwell which culminates in an appeal for recruits.

150 pupils, including citizens from the Empire (a turbaned Indian is visible in a parade), undergo a two-year training ...

The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed in the colony.

The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.

Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on its journey in the Himalayas. Views of the tea-gardens with waterfalls (118). A ...

A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER ƒMEDICINE WOMEN>

INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.

The film opens with a local looking at a sign post 'To Kingolwira'. The African sets off in this direction and comes to a ...

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS

AMATEUR. Film of Burma.

Dam. Street scenes - Arab costumes possibly Sudan. Coronation Coach in Britain - Jubilee procession for George V. Dam again. Grandstand at racecourse? River journey through Burma. Giant Buddhas.

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TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE ƒHONEY> IS MADE INTO A TYPE OF ƒBEER>BY HEATING, STRAINING, AND EXTRACTION

Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. He is astonished to find he is actually the descendant of an African queen, and resolves to return to his native country to ...

Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.

An African man, 'a typical case of chronic hookworm', describes his symptoms to a friend. The film shows a close-up of the type of worms ...

Travelogue of India; edited from material supplied by the Government of India.

The Governor General Lord Clarendon opens the Empire Exhibition at Milner Park, Johannesburg, on September 15th 1936. Some of the features of the exhibition are shown.