JAMAICA VISTA 1952
A TRAVELOGUE ABOUT JAMAICA WITH EMPHASIS ON KINGSTON.
A TRAVELOGUE ABOUT JAMAICA WITH EMPHASIS ON KINGSTON.
The Central African Scouts Jamboree, April 1959.
Amateur film. Footage of Cyprus, Crete, Israel and Jerusalem.
Shows the various businesses Joe Hlahla an African landowner does.
Oilman's schoolboy son, on holiday at Qatar, gets the Christmas present he wants most. 28,000-ton tanker halts in the Persian Gulf to help an Arab dhow. Oil products from the Island of Grain go to a destination in the Norwegian mountains.
Story of an expedition to drill an exploratory oil well in the jungle of Salawati (New Guinea), to which helicopters are used to fly in the derrick and drilling equipment.
The process of planning, constructing and operating a jungle fort (Fort Dixon) in the jungles of Pahang.
Over aerial shots of the jungle, the commentator announces that ‘In Malaya today the security forces ...
Jungle Jim survives a number of encounters with natives and whites all after riches.
Gives an example of a supply drop to a jungle patrol, from the preparation necessary before a patrol sets out to the actual recovery of the supplies and their utilisation in the jungle.
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Content information copied from SSVC RAF ...
A Malayan Film Unit film documenting the importance of following army procedure for airdrops of supplies in isolated areas of the jungle during the Emergency.
(Reel 1) Aerial views of the Malayan Jungle. Unit ...
Uganda 1956, Malindi, Rome.
Collection in general contains Queen's birthday celebrations, Independence celebrations, family on safari in Northern province, as well as daily life on an upcountry station.
Family, Masaka. Collection in general contains Queen's birthday celebrations, Independence celebrations, family on safari in Northern province, as well as daily life on an upcountry station
British North Borneo: a birthday party at the Jeans' family bungalow and various domestic and rural shots. Port & coastal views from ship. Local market and colourful costumed festival ceremonies. Local agriculture with cultivation by ...
Rural life scenes with local long houses. Opening Mission church. Jesselton railway station. Punch and Judy show at fair. Father Christmas visit by dingy
Rural air strip,buildings & take off. V.I P visit with cavalcade & airport ...
Various aspects of European family and social life in Borneo. Country life fishing villlages. Empire Day military celebrations. Infant school life. Arrival of Father Christmas & school party. Guy Fawkes party .
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Coastal port town concentration on busy commercial life of local population. Harbour loading , unloading of craft. Lorry traffic into docks. Market and busy street scenes. River small ferry crossing with passengers. Funeral or ...
The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard Jones. Jones, who was awarded the MBE, OBE and CBE for his work in the field of medicine, worked for the ...
Amateur film of Karamoja, Uganda, shot by Michael Wigglesworth who worked as a town planner in Uganda when it was a British colony.
Footage includes: Blood drinking ceremony, cattle market, rain making ceremony, pygmies dancing to ...
THE PEOPLE OF THE KARAMOJA DISTRICT OF UGANDA
The building of the Kariba dam.
Europeasn are armed in Nairobi, now a "special area"; increased precautions against the Mau Mau.
Scenes in heavily guarded courtroom as Jomo Kenyatta and five other Mau Mau leaders were tried and sentenced.
A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.
"The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...
The participants of and shots of the Kenya Himal Chuli expedition of 1955.
Shot of the Himal Chuli (Himalchuli Mountain) in Nepal. The Participants - John Howard and the photographer of the expedition Arthur Firmin and John Lane, ...
A visit to the bush area on the outskirts of Kenya, with glimpses of sisal making and wild game.
AMATEUR/INTEREST. Kenyan landscapes and wildlife.
Trees, green hills and lake, medium shot of elephants, herd of elephants on plain with car in middle, gazelle, birds, medium shot of giraffe, gazelle, zebra, medium shot of rhino by ...
A Garden Party in Nairobi for the 80 delegates (representing 50 Empire and Commonwealth legislatures) visiting Nairobi for the Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Amateur. A journey from Khartoum, Sudan to Lake Chad.
Traders in market square selling onions etc Ancient ruins in desert - Egyptian (?) carvings on stonework. Local Sudanese working in corn field. Men with camels and donkeys ...
Deals with the mission of an engineer who has to build a railway in the African jungles aftet two of his colleagues have gone missing.
Backed by Columbia since 1953, Irving Allen and Albert (Cubby) Broccoli’s Warwick Film Productions ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot Mundy.
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown territory they find the skeleton in the mines, and are rescued from a wild native.
This adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s ...Sir Mortimer Wheeler discusses his visit to the ruined city of Zimbabwe, legendary source of King Solomon's gold and subject of much mystery, controversy and speculation.
Shows in detail the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard, the barracks of the troops, and their preparations-grooming horses, putting on uniforms.
Documentary on wild animals in Kenya's game reserves. The film's underlying pur pose is to gain support for the idea of nature conservation.
The correct method of harvesting, fermenting and grading of cocoa.
Film depicting the working up of HMS Ocean on passage to Korea, and air operations onboard HMS Glory.
Introductory sequence draws attention to the post-war RN programme for the ...
Various aspects of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya.
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Remarks: cataloguing incomplete.
Various shots outside a church for a family christening. Brief shots of outside of hospital. Girls and boys acting out drama. Garden shots with teenager and geese, small boy and mother, dog and rabbit.
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European families enjoying cricket and swimming. European family in bush and by a water hole catching fish. A farewell parade for a local European dignitary.
Production / Donor Details: Mr King served with the Bechuanaland ...
A visit to the Molepolole Lion Sanctuary, with shots of cubs and a tame monkey. Also a visit by the High Commissioner to a local village: his arrival in a small Air force plane, his tour of the village with local dignitaries, and his ...
1.Welcome parades of Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and Police recruits, for High Commissioner's visit. 2. Family footage - Christening party. 3.Tennis courts.
4.Home bungalow with children playing in garden fish pond.
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Travel Film of Central Africa.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
Views of Zambesi and Kota-Kota, Nyasaland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at ...
Rhodesia: miscellaneous views
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
Film of The Kruger National Park in South Africa; Wankie Reserve (now Hwange Park); and The Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...