INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where the cocoa pods are plucked from the tree trunks, the beans extracted and sorted by natives. Commentary explains ...
Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.
Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower at Malacca. Brief shots of the region of Johore including, the river ferry at Maur (Muar), the causeway ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation, November 1930.
"Leaving Aden". Shots of the shore from ship, pan of shoreline with ships and dhows off Aden. "A country station with ...
Empire Day celebrations in Hyde Park (71ft).
Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.
Filmed by an officer in one of the Gurkha regiments. Views over the Sylhet Plain taken in the Khasi Hills. The ropeway by ...
WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.
Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of the school at Budo; Canon Grace; Dr and Mrs Schofield at the village maternity centre. Church Missionary society ...
Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.
Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box in which film came to Archive, but not known if this relates to this particular film.
Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the age of seven.
No main title. "It was strictly for purposes of scientific study that we went to Borneo ...
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
