TRANSPORT COMMAND 1962
RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.
The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...
RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.
The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...
Part of Command Activities Series
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Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989
Report examines Gibraltar's precarious economic situation and the Rock's strategic importance to Britain.
Too small for industry, declining in importance as a passenger and trade sea-port, dependent on hostile Spain ...
The Duke of Edinburgh's South American tour.
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Kenya government's Land Development and Settlement Board scheme to encourage Africans to return to the land and farm small five to ten acre plots is forcing large landowners in scheduled areas to sell up . Two such farmers, an English settler living ...
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Report on "Operation Noah" and on efforts to tackle another ecological problem created by the construction of the Kariba Dam, the spread of a floating water fern.
Wildlife is being stranded on small islands behind ...
British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
Shows the long-term side of Oxfams's work through the example of Basutoland, whe re Oxfam is financing farmer training and other agricultural improvement project s Problem of soil erosion and farmers ignorance. How modern ideas and ...
Bob's Your Uncle - Mark 2 - signwriter and his one man band have a new caravan! Iron Age Relics - Zewa village. Snake Man - first black snake handler. Thicker Than Water - appeal for blood donors. What ...
Reflecting Current Events - production process of the "MufuliraMirror". Champions of the Plough - ploughing competition, Lord Dalhousie attends. "Willingly To School" - primary school in Arcadia run by German ...
Report on the secession of Nyasaland from the Central African Federation, with a particular look at its economic potential.
Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.
Conflict of an English colonial and a prince of the Malayan Archipelago.
Any Old Iron - steel foundry, Kitwe.
School of Archaeology.
Country Holidays - pony trekking in the Vumba Mts. and Ponderosa holiday ranch.
John Hooper weighs up - Central African Airways is only a link.Why isn't it an international airline? Sir Robert Taylor chairman of C.A.A. explains why not. Review of C.A.A. services.
The life of Africans against the background of village life and life in the cities of Rhodesia and in the Copper Belt of Northern Rhodesia.
Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.
Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within the farm. View of Sisters Peak from Mountain Road. West Indian steel band and dancing. Power House plant ...
In January 1879 a force of 4,000 Zulus having wiped out 1200 British soldiers in Natal marched to attack the Rorke's Drift mission station. Against the advice of the missionary, Lieutenant Chard with seven other junior officers and 97 ...
The Joy Eternal - Tobacco exhibition at the Rhodes National Gallery. Nyasaland in Flood - scenes. Rehearsal in the Sun - airlift of the cast of Jack Watson's "Poison the Sun" to Sinoia, Yor Money Comes Back to ...
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Trout Talk - breeding and rearing of trout.
Breeding for the Show - show cattle and Lusaka Royal Show.
Conserving Our Forests - in Matabeleland.
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Outline of the development of Rhodesia, including its industrial development, improvements in education and health service, and the good transport facilities.