The series on independent travel goes on two very different trips to islands in the Atlantic; on the Azores islands of Sao Miguel, Pico and Faial in the Azores in the North Atlantic; and by Royal Mail ship via Ascension Island to ...
Various scenes in Nigeria, including family life (swimming, relaxing, picnics etc.) and some large public gatherings (possibly official events?)
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in ...
Scenes of the Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Nigeria, including preparations, bunting in streets, crowds. Also scenes of home life.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial ...
Family scenes, holidays (local leave?), relaxing - swimming, boating, tennis.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial service in Nigeria after WW2.
Nigerian Police Passing out parade and Christmas in Nigeria
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial service in Nigeria after WW2.
Nigerian troops on parade; family scenes.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial service in Nigeria after WW2.
Life in Malaya, including British social occasions, the slaughtering of a cow and goats, and processions in honour of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
St. Alban's church (Lutheran) on Azania Front.
A street scene showing a shop selling kangas.
Twiga Hotel - the most modern hotel at that time.
The Buddhist temple in Garden Avenue.
The pombe (beer) market.
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Amateur film of the Regal Cinema staff in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, recreating in the garden behind the cinema their contribution to the nationwide Salute the Soldier Week, in 1944. The usherettes, dressed in the ...
Helicopters operate from RFA Stromness(?) en route to the Falklands; aircraft arriving and departing at Ascension Island.
A Lynx helicopter is filmed from the deck of the ship as it lands, takes off ...
Excerpts from a concert at Hong Kong Stadium on 25 June 1997, shortly prior to handover: in attendance is Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.
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Remarks: only Tapes 2 and 3 held by IWM.
Three-part film showing (1) a Royal Air ...
Troops of 10th Indian Division in Italy ...
European wedding with guests and full wedding party reception. Harbour port scenes with shipping traffic. Voyage on large ocean liner. Coastal shots from ship perhaps arriving in India.
Miscellany of country life showing agriculture and fishery. Also the construction of a large building using 'Biblical Methods'
Oceanliner Vovage with extensive shots of Aden and its achorage showng scenery and shipping. Ocean voyage shows on board festivities such as 'the crossing of the line'.
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).
Lush vegetation. Scenery footage including mountains and village or tourist accommodation set amongst the high terrain.
War Memorial Ceremony in a small East African town with Governor and followed by military march past and African military band.
East African coast area showing local buildings villas and some in Arab style and others showing some old German Colonial influence.
East African coastal area showing city traffic and city buildings some of which are Mosques and Arabic in influence. Hill country scenes with local villages and then tree felling activities and the treating of timber in a country ...
Includes shots of Agricultural Officers on tour and various agricultural and fisheries research projects including coffee and groundnuts. These are interspersed with shots of African schoolgirls invited to tea with their Teacher ...
Various items showing people and places in the life of an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). ...
Family scenes; grinding rice in a Chinese village; rigging up a model plane.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). His wife Anne was a ...
Agricultural Workers in Northern Rhodesia 1961-62.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). His wife Anne was a Teacher and later ...
Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...
Film is mostly taken up with scenes on board ship, though there are some scenes in Aden: a car being loaded with baggage, and some people at work on cars, perhaps in a mechanic's shop (cars have Aden license plates).
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Amateur. People on beach. Locals fishing.
Travelogue. Aerial tour of Africa affording novel views of animals and wild life.
Propaganda film made by Africans to show the people of Nigeria that leprosy can be cured if early treatment is taken instead of their relying on the witch doctors.
Unedited Rhodesian footage.
A map pinpointing the location of Rhodesia in the African continent; scenes of black Rhodesians; whites at a polling station; Ian Smith at the Commonwealth Relations office.
Baghdad: - suk, forbidden Muharram festival procession and back street scenes. Kuwait:- 'id al Adha, bedu camp, Gerald de Gaurey - political resident coming ashore.
DOCUMENTARY. Tourist attractions of the Bahamas and the new properties under construction.
AMATEUR. Footage of events in Bahrain 1938-48.
Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving the structure into position. A British officer directing ...
Anthony Smith and cameraman Douglas Botting fly by balloon from Zanzibar to the mainland of Africa.
Unedited colour material shot by an official RAF cameraman of Baltimores, Bostons and Spitfires, including air to air footage and some shots of Malta.
The first sequence is of a Baltimore squadron in N Africa, ...
AMATEUR. Baluch regimental sports; farewell parade for Colonel and Mrs. Lord; farewell to Viceroy Commissioned officers; Welfare farewell to Mrs. Lord.
Baluch Regimental sports. Patsy and trap. The Regimental Cenotaph. Views of the sports - ...
After the fall of the city of Shwebo in ...
Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.
Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Herbert Janes (later Sir Herbert Janes). Various parts of Southern Africa (including Rhodesia), covering travel, location and landscape shots, shots of rural and urban life and some footage ...
INTEREST. Cricket match: Barbados defeat the M.C.C.
At Kalewa, on the River Chindwin in Burma, barrage balloons are positioned to deter low-flying enemy aircraft.
Man operating a winch as it spools ...
At Kalewa, on the River Chindwin in Burma, barrage balloons are positioned to deter low-flying enemy aircraft.
Balloon over the Chindwin. Jeep ...
Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
The film shows the family of a fisherman, one who owns his own boat. After he has set out for the day ...
Re-edited version of CIN 237 (without soundtrack).
AMATEUR. Film of life in Bastar state, India.
