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    Short film with a recruiting aim stressing the importance of the technical grades in the Royal Navy.

    The role of the technician in the modern navy is stressed, along with illustrations of various areas: command and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The story of Rhodes' influence in Africa. Includes exterior of house where he was born; his grave; African mining towns; Rhodesia and Oxford Colleges(?).

     
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    Rhodesia

    AFRICAN BOYS MAKING WHEELED WIRE TOYS

     
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    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 ...

     
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    TRAVELOG

    Pete McCarthy travels to Hong Kong and Macau, where he finds out about pre- parations for the changes ahead when both are handed back to the Chinese. And in China, he gets a taste of the tourist industry on a whirlwind tour of the Great Wall, ...

     
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    WORLD IN ACTION

    Documentary about the Triad gangs of Hong Kong who control nightclubs, shops, restaurants and gambling houses. They are involved in prostitution, loan sharking, extortion and drugs smuggling. But the prospect of Hong Kong being handed ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur travelogue. Edwin and Rene Brown spend their holiday on Mauritius and the Seychelles. They enjoy the islands' beaches and admire the landscape. They drive around and meet some local fishermen, who demonstrate their work. There are ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary about Tristan De Cunha, one of the world's most isolated islands, with a population of only 300 people. The only official contact from the outside world is the yearly visit of the royal mailship St Helena.

     
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    TASK FORCE SOUTH THE BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS

    The Argentinian attack on the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram.

     
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    Regimental record, with detailed commentary by commanding officer, of parade by 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment in Aden in presence of Princess Alexandra of Kent, Sir Charles Johnston (Governor of Aden) and Air Marshal Sir Charles ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A description of the significant changes which have occured in tropical Africa during this century. The contrasts between rural and urban life are shown, and the effects of European influence and the problems of independence. Modern ...

     
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    Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far East.

    RAF Staging Post at Gan in the Maldives discovers a malfunction in the CRDF (Cathode Ray Direction ...