Ships of the Mediterranean Fleet in Malta after Combined Fleet Exercises.

Shots taken from Marino Pinto onto Grand Harbour show Maltese dghaisa (dghajsa) bringing libertymen ashore; HMS Tyne ...

Scenes in and around Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises, Mediterranean 1955.

Combined Fleet formed up prior to entering Grand Harbour. Harbour entrance and Valletta. Firing the Royal ...

On 23rd January 1955, HMS Superb on passage from Kingston, Jamaica to Callao in Peru passed through the Panama Canal.

Superb approaches Gatun Lock from Cristobal and passes through the locks ...

HMS Tyne at Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises.

Flag Officers arrive on board HMS Tyne at Grand Harbour, Malta. FO's meeting in C-in-C's Dining cabin.

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Rehearsal of Fleet concert party. "Blue Jackets" band of HMS St Angelo marches down Kingsway, Valletta; crowd lines street. Street Lining party provided by Malta shore establishments takes up positions in Kingsway. Band and ...

Visit of Sir Anthony Eden and CIGS (Field Marshal Harding) to 848 Squadron RN, Malaya.

(Reel 1) Display of trooping lifting and parachute techniques evolved by the Royal Navy and the SAS. Sir ...

Investiture at HAFMED, Malta.

Vice-Admiral James A Fife, USN (Deputy C-in-C Allied Forces Med) presents decorations on behalf of US government to four British officers (for service in Korea), ...

Queen's Birthday Parade, Mauritius, taken from HMS Gambia. No details.

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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.

(Taken in HMAS Quadrant.) Destroyers in line astern and ahead; fleet forming up; fleet dressed overall at entrance to Singapore Roads.

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The informal visit of Vice-Admiral R A Ofstie USN to Malta, July 1955.

Fort St Elmo fires salute as USS Salem (US Sixth Fleet) passes breakwater. HMS Sheffield fires salute in Grand Harbour. ...

(Part 1) (a) Visit to Grand Turk Island: cable parties prepare to enter harbour, pilot comes on board. Shot from bridge. Quartermaster sounds by hand lead line. Port anchor goes - cable running out. Commissioner arrives on ...

Visit of Commander-in-Chief, Italian Naval Forces to Malta, July 1955.

(Part 1) Italian flagship Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi fires salute as Vice-Admiral Vittorio De Pace (C-in-C) ...

"HMS Birmingham. Ceremony of the Keys at Gibraltar, December 1955." (Taken from CNI records.)

HMS Birmingham enters Algiers firing national salute; returned by shore batteries. C-in-C Med and ...

A party for British children onboard HMS Forth, submarine depot ship at Malta.

LA.LS from quayside to HMS Forth alongside - a huge Father Christmas figure has been erected as if in the act of ...

Naval publicity short featuring the Sea Hawks of 806 NAS onboard HMS Centaur in the Mediterranean. The emphasis is on the aerobatic skill of the pilots rather than any more martial qualities ...

I. AA Defence of ships. LA.MS of twin 40mm AA as it trains and fires - destroyer's funnel in the background, frame right. MS in rear of 6x40mm on aircraft carrier - mounting trains and fires.

II. Aerial MLSs of HMS Eagle underway with escorting ...

I. MS sequence showing a whaler under oars in Grand Harbour, Malta, and HA shot as whaler is lowered from davits on cameraship, and boat falls made up. Boat's crew bear off, are cast loose and ship oars.

II. Sequence showing two whalers under ...

0-400 A. Tame monkey: Ant hill: Tracks in jungle: Ferry across river: Ju-Ju dolls: Native fete: Coco Palms: Market in village: native huts in village: Cattle: Ferry: River scene: River side village: Pineapples ...

0-400 E. Trials personnel arriving at Port Harcourt Airport: Scenes at airport: Railway: Native Dwellings: Marking out trials area: Recoilless gun being emplaced: Firing shell burst and cloud passage: Second ...

0-400 H. Building Operations: Living Quarters: Vehicles: Field Guns: General views of living quarters and laboratory: Vehicles moving to trial site: Canoes on river: Natives canoeing: River launch: Carpenters ...

General picture of the country showing its economic, political and social progress.

A summary of the activities of the United Africa Company, part of the sponsor's group. Import of raw material from Africa to Britain and export of manufactured goods to Africa. The design and production in Manchester of patterned cloth for ...

Documentary on Hong Kong

Documentary describing the rapid growth of the Nigerian palm oil trade.

New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of islands, harvesting on estate, buildings, markets, Blairmont factory, from boat. "Bauxite Workings Mackenzie, [British ...

Political broadcast. An extract from a routine post National Executive meeting press conference. Morgan Phillips, James Griffiths and Hugh Gaitskell answer questions from the press.

Topics covered ...

Shows traditional methods of pottery making, basket weaving, the making of hunti ng weapons, boat building and ceremonial dances in East Africa.

Film of the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Nigeria.

Maps show how the growing of a varied range of crops is possible; native life and subsistence farming on the Low Veld; commercial cultivation of maize, tobacco, cotton, fruit and barley on the high Veld.

No.1 Deals with the nutritional importance of palm oil and palm kernels. Depicts also West African life in the rain belt forest areas of Nigeria. No.2 Outlines the importance to the Nigerian people of the palm and traces how the oil trade ...

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 ...

Young adventuress' machinations and final doom while fortune hunting in darkest Africa.

A colour travelogue intended to encourage tourists to visit the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia.

The film shows the the great ruins of Zimbabwe, follows a car journey to Umtali, before travelling through the fruit growing north and then on ...

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.

Travelogue on Singapore, one of the world's natural junctions and one of the greatest international ports.

The port; street scenes, warehouses, junks unloading timber, the interior of a warehouse, different produce being unloaded eg, ...

The discussion on the admission of Sudan to the United Nations. Sir Pierson Dixon supports the application as does the United States representative. The Russian president of the Security Council speaks. The vote - Sudan is ...

Amateur. A European family holidaying in Africa.

Beach hut on island. Boat out at sea. Africans dancing and drinking beer. European boy dances with them. African teaches European man to throw fishing net. Family scenes at home ( ...

TV play about the lives of West Indian immigrants in Britain.

The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.

A study of the Malay people living in a Borneo village. Showing fishing and village life.

A true story, showing the problems and difficulties of the Principal of a Theological College as he attempts to bring his African students the real meaning of initiative, leadership and responsibility. Commentator: Gordon Davies.

African adventure with wild animals and Leopard Men.

India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.