Amateur film shot by Group-Captain Hugh Verity shows English Electric Canberra B.6. at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, before aerial and ground views of airfields en route to and from Singapore: Akrotiri (Cyprus), Bahrain, Karachi Civil, Katunayake ( ...
Amateur Army film intended to illustrate some of the methods used in dealing with EOKA terrorists in Cyprus. A British vehicle-mounted patrol demonstrates the correct counter-ambush drill, forcing the ambushers to quickly retreat. A tracker team ...
"Indo-China. Railroad War". An attack on a train by guerrillas in Indo-China. The train had armed guards who fought back. Scenes of repairs to the track which is bombed daily by the guerrillas - Viet-Minh. "Princess Elizabeth at ...
"El Salvador. Earthquake kills 2000". Aerial scenes of the destruction in and around Jucuapa. Some surivors at a hospital,(6-7.5.1951). "Sevenoaks. Women cricketers. Kent v. Australia". Scenes from the game. Kent are all out before ...
The United Nations and its first attempt to take direct and sole responsibility for governing a territory. The seven month control of West New Guinea.
Report on the latest developments in the South Atlantic crisis with an interview with John Nott, Secretary of State for Defence.
Recruitment film to encourage nurses and doctors to go to Rhodesia. Shows the terrain, work in the hospitals and public health work, and opportunities for research work. Then shows living conditions and night life etc.
PROPAGANDA. An account of the Suez crisis and the strategic position of British military bases in Cyprus, seen from an extreme right-wing viewpoint. The film is introduced by Canadian reporter Stanley Maxted (39). On a map of the Meditteranean, he ...
Tells the story of the erection in the sea of the movable drilling platform at Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
Home movie film of a trip to Fiji and Tahiti. Shots of Fiji include the Yacuta Hotel, the countryside and villages, sailing round the island by yacht and Fijian dances. Shots of Tahiti include a trip around the island, Robert L. Stevenson's house, the ...
The building up of the cocoa-processing industry in the Gold Coast.
