Film shot by HMS Bulwark's Entertainment Officer, showing some of the ways in which the ship's company amused themselves while anchored off Famagusta with no shore leave other than to a Rest Camp ...
A party from HMS Protector and men of the Falkland Islands Defence Force participate in a memorial ceremony at the Battle of the Falklands Memorial in Port Stanley.
Detachment ...
I. Eastney AA Range. Series of shots of twin 40mm Bofors on STAAG mounting - crew man the gun, open fire, and train round while firing. Shell cases eject onto the beach.
II. Gibraltar. LS view of the Rock, approaching from seaward - camera boat ...
(Reel 1) The film, with a commentary loaded with statistics, starts with the initial planning of the operation (staged synch film of the planning committee deciding on the Christmas Island area as the test site) and preparations for shipment of ...
Report on the Bahamas Islands focuses on the colony's precarious dependence on tourism (95% American) and includes an interview with the leader of the Opposition Progressive Liberal Party.
Playground image (water- ...
Film on the role played by British forces in Cyprus, focusing on the balance between celebrations and the need to continue operations against EOKA.
Men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Ulster Regiment land from the ...
Prince Philip talks about his world tour of 1956-57. Scenes in Ceylon, Australia, Antarctica and The Gambia.
A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to make a delivery. Pan across the buildings in a small village. Exterior of the general store, with members of the ...
Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.
Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in 1949 - hence film probably made in 1957 - Lady Limerick laying foundation stone (in 1951) - men's ...
Prince Philip's visit to Gambia; a crocodile shoot in the jungle; presiding at a gathering of Gambia chiefs.
THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN UGANDA>
An African boy and his girl in a small village in Nigeria, and impact of Westernisation due to coming of white man.
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage raft and travel upstream towards the Murchison Falls, filming the wildlife that they encounter. They spend time ...
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, ...
Story of two men, one white and the other black, raised in friendship all their lives who become enemies during the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. From a novel of Robert Ruark
Training and welfare at Kariba, the K.A.R. leaves Zomba for Lusaka, Chief Rozani invested, Chilonga mission, University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Lady Benson visits new homecraft centre, ...
Governor General invests Africans, new wing for Zomba hospital, M.L.C.'s visit Chitedze, Machipisa - progressive store keeper,Governor presents football cup, African sculptor honoured, police ...
Documentary on the Caribbean, shot during the making of "Fire Down Below". Tour of Trinidad, sporting activities, carnivals and the Limbo dance performed to the music of a steel band.
Scenes of the 1957 Trinidad Carnival, shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-60.
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and Ghana could be used.
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on N. Nigeria.
The Governor of Uganda, Sir Frederick Crawford, visits the Lukiko - the Ugandan Parliament.
Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl from Marseille, with whom he finally settles down after a series of incidents with both black and white people.