An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.
The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...
DRAMA. The whites working a rubber plantation in West africa slowly collapse under the multiple strains that their life-style imposes.
Rl.1. Introduction about the effect of damp rot in West Africa (50ft). On a rubber plantation in ...
AMATEUR. Film shot around the Gold Coast, with views from a train and a car, and shots of a small animal (a young deer of some kind) and a snake. There are also scenes of village life and a market, and pets(?).
"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of Royal procession along Aldwych (0.09). Ground view of arrival of royal landau at India House. King George ...
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education and agricultural development.
Reels one and two missing.
Reel three. Wesley College, Kumasi ...
Amateur film covering Bagnold's explorations of the Libyan desert, 1930 and 1932.
r.1 Names of the exploration party and a map showing route of first reconnaissance of the Great Sand Sea in 1929 (15). Map of route taken to Uweinat ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...
Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.
"London, Houses of Parliament, `cameos of the Caribbean' Way out on the Spanish main, where Drake and his sea-dogs chased buccaneers... Lie those sun-kissed isles of romantic beauty, the lovely Leewards Islands. `London to Leewards' a ...
Amateur film.
Sign, reading H.M.S. Orion, parade and scouts lining up for march. Woodpecker on tree. Sea-shore and team paddling. Teatime in the camp. Crab. Sea-shore. Party of women walking. Grass hut. Fields. View from boat. ...
