No titles. Shots from the same camera viewpoint showing horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians and an electric tram arriving at an alighting point and stopping in Cape Town (70ft).
No titles. Shots from the same camera viewpoint showing horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians and an electric tram arriving at an alighting point and stopping in Cape Town (70ft).
ACTUALITY. Military exercise in Durban, South Africa.
Small groups of naval ratings bring their guns into position, fire, unlimber them and move them away to enable the next contingent to take their places (123ft).
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African labourers excavating a clearing, with railway tracks in the background. The Africans may be Zulus (94ft).
An ox wagon passes before the camera at some distance; another passes at closer range; a caravan of ox wagons, stationary, with pedestrians and rickshaws in the distance (66ft).
ACTUALITY. Long shot of President Kruger.
A long shot of Kruger leaving his residence to be driven off to the Volksraad. When the President has taken his place in the carriage, a footman closes the door, jumps up behind and the ...
ACTUALITY. Seaforth Highlanders in Cairo.
A column of Seaforth Highlanders, wearing topees and with fixed bayonets, march towards and past the camera watched by the native populace and a few Europeans. A triumphal arch appears in the ...
View from stern of moving ship shows a faster-moving vessel, with masts and a funnel, approaching then overtaking on the starboard side. As it does so the stern of a similar though larger vessel, at anchor, comes into view. (67ft)
ACTUALITY. Lord Kitchener's reception at the Guildhall on the occasion of his presentation of the Freedom of the City of London.
Guests arriving at the canopied entrance to the Guildhall, including a man in a top hat and frock coat ...
INTEREST. Footage shot by A.C. Haddon during the 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait, showing a series of native dances.
No credits. (MALU-BOMAI CEREMONY AT KIAM) Three men, each wearing a skirt made of leaves, perform a ...
ACTUALITY. Long distance shot of "The Bluff" nearing Durban; it sails towards the camera, turns, and passes in medium close shot. (75 ft).