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    Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Serowe, Bechuanaland, home to the Bamangwato tribe. Features Semane, widow of Chief Khama, and Khama's son, Chief Tshekedi Khama and his wife.

     
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    DOCUMENTARY.

    Rl.1 Opening shots of the mail plane calling at Brunette Downs, Northern Territory, Australia. Aerial shots of the sea, fields and river and the plane in flight "The aeroplane has won for man the freedom of the air" (527). Shots ...

     
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    New Year's Day scenes: people in national dress; firecracker displays; people going visiting with presents; strolling in the public gardens; at the cinemas (Kodachrome); decorated shops; bazaars; crowds at the ferry.

     
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    Baden-Powell opens Boy Scout swimming pool at Walton, Lahore. Swimming and life-saving. Kunhar river. Kagan valley. Views around Balakot "a good sample of frontier huddled town". Indian children work a well. Khaki motor terminus; loading kit on mules. ...

     
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    AMATEUR. Film of life in Bastar state, India.

     
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    Shots of Nawanagar state boy scout's activities at HQ and the camp. Amateur footage.

     
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    BORNEO - 2 1937

    Amateur film. The Daruel Tobacco Plantations Limited estate at Segama, Lahad Datu, in Sabah, the Malaysian part of Borneo.

    Coolies carrying loads to a boat at the edge of a river and carrying bales from the boat into the shed at Lahad Datu. " ...

     
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    Scenes of the damage caused by a typhoon in August 1936: at the waterfront; in the city; at Kowloon Football Ground; the sea wall at Lia Chi Kok; the Chinese cruiser "Hai Chow" aground; the bathing beach at Ting Kau.

     
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    Amateur film. Scenes in Samoa; view of harbour and liner; men and women walking along a coastal road; women with produce at harbour; selling tourist items such as a wooden model boat; two Samoan women pose for the camera. Scenes in Suva, Fiji; pan of ...

     
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    Viceroy's Durbar in Lahore Fort, October 1937: ornate occasion with drapings, carpets, taking the salute, escorts and carriages [washed out colour that ends in balck and white]. Camel carriage for Governor's state entry to races; hunt meeting at Hariki ...

     
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    Roach Collection

    This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports of call. The visitor shows us views of people, European and African, and their habitat and other surroundings encountered on his ...

     
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    Great Britain

    An account of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the islands' development since emancipation.

    Copeland Grant, seated in a living room, speaks of the West Indians' mixed descent and of their loyalty to Britain, before the film ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The forests and the mahogany timber industry of British Honduras.

     
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    Great Britain

    The cultivation and export of bananas in Jamaica.

    Opening in January as local ploughmen plough a large field in readiness for planting, the film then shows local women weeding and hoeing the land. Shots of a dam outline the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his deputy is ill.

    Professor Tibbetts, who works for the Teaching and Welfare Institute for the Reformation of Pagans ( ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes of Hong Kong including: the harbour; Kowloon Pier (incl. 3 shots of President Hoover); junks in the harbour; city of Victoria; the main commercial streets; city business area; European residential district; the Public Gardens; and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    "Chinese Community Demonstrates its loyalty to King George VI" - crowds, flags, and bunting; Chinese Pailaus or triumphal arches; Chinese procession including dragon, lanterns, banners, floats, drummers and acrobats.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. Scenes at the Oba Oba Mission, Samoa; view over tropical hills and valleys from summit of hill with huts - hill station; procession of horses and people with supplies climbing road to the hill station - the mission (?); two ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands.

    Entering Buenos Aires, travelling shot of street scenes in the city, skyscrapers, the Colour Theatre(?), the City Hotel. Notice board on "Higiene Sexual" (80ft). Entering Port ...

     
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    SUEZ 1938

    USA

    The life of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the building of the Suez Canal.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes from Hong Kong including: transport ships at Kowloon Pier; sampans and junks; city street scenes; people in the Public Gardens; a Christian Chinese wedding; women workers carrying vegetables; building; stone breaking, working on a ...

     
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    Great Britain

    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.

     
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    Great Britain

    Travelogue of Burma showing Buddhist sites in Rangoon and Mandalay and a look at Burmese life. Includes a teak sawmill and working elephants; child dancers and musicians; and Mandalay market.

    Main title and credits (43). Silhouetted ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. Scenes at the Oba Oba Mission, Samoa; MSs ten-year-old boys; pan across landscape from summit of hill; men, women and children walking to wooden, one-floor buildings and church - the mission (?); CU of European - the minister ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife - probably on a Thomas Cook tour)

     
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    PETRA 1938

    Great Britain

    Documentary on the city of Petra. Traces four civilisations, each of which found value in re-establishing the life of this city, whose temples and dwellings were shaped out of the caves in the cliff of a mountain range in the heart of the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Ben, Bebe and Barbara in Africa, mostly watching ritual dancing. Ben, Bebe and Barbara in a large garden - home?




     
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    Great Britain

    Goods transportation: ferry and junks on the waterfront; lorries; coolies carrying a variety of goods along roads. Passenger transportation: ocean liners - `Ajax'; `Aramis'; `Empress of Japan'; and `Chitral'; harbour ferries; motor buses; ...

     
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    GOLD COAST 1938

    Great Britain

    INTEREST. A film of British West Africa.

    Credits (23). The primitive fishing of the natives on the Gold Coast - they beach their boat, lay out their nets and repair any damage to them ready for the next morning's fishing. The ...

     
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    GRAPEFRUIT 1938

    Great Britain

    INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of grapefruit in the British Honduras.

    Titles (17). Woman eating grapefruit (21). Men planting out sour orange seedlings (47). Spraying the seedlings. Grafting cuttings from grapefruit trees onto the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    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

     
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    Great Britain, USA

    Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

    Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts on a country road in India (124). Travelling shot from road of Muslim hermitage. Ground view -The hermitage ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of a trip to Cuba, Bermuda and the Azores.

    On the ship, a quoits contest, a face wash race and a straw race. Entering Havana. Morro Castle(?), a ferry boat, a banana plantation. Algibe Farm(?), with pineapples, ...

     
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    Great Britain, USA

    PART 1

    "NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON FACT". "THE AFRICAN FOREST VILLAGE OF METRET - ELDERS NEGOTIATE OVER THE BRIDE PRICE FOR NGONO, WITH ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INSTRUCTIONAL. How men of the Barotse tribe make and use a dug-out canoe.

    Two Africans begin to fell a tree with axes. The tree falls. Shaping and hollowing the trunk into a canoe. Launching the canoe on the Zambesi. Two ...

     
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    USA

    Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.

     
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    Great Britain

    The visit of Queen Elizabeth, consort to George VI, to the Burma Pvailion at the opening of the Empire Exhibition on 3rd May 1938.

    Opens with middle-distance shot of the Queen leaving the pavilion. Then shows in sequence the various ...

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR FILM. Views over harbour. Woman cleaning wooden oar on jetty. Boats coming into harbour. Two small boys playing jacks. Men asleep in wicker basket. Men using winch to unload wooden crates from a boat. Crates loaded and transported ...

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    GOING PLACESUSA
     
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    USA

    DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.

    RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium via France, Spain, Morocco and the Sahara into the heart of the Belgian Congo. In Morocco, we see ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Travelogue of Southern Rhodesia. Scenes in Bulawayo, factory workshops for the railways. Gold mining operations in a large foundry and by a single prospector. Dairy farming in Gwelo, chromium mines at Selukwe, Rhodes' tomb at Matopos. ...

     
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    Great Britain

    An engineer dreams of a fictitious conference of the `Mediterranean Economy Union' called to discuss plans for damming the Mediterranean Sea at Gibraltar and the Dardanelles in order to reduce the sea level and reclaim potentially valuable ...

     
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    USA

    The lives and customes of the Hindus of India, based on a book by Father Lhande.

     
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    DRUM 1938 enhanced entry

    Great Britain

    Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.

    The Drum takes place in the fictional town of Tokot, situated on the border of the contentious frontier province of Afghanistan. ...