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    ACTUALITY. The construction of a railway bridge across a river in South Africa.

    A gang of African labourers, with an overseer, assembling railway lines; bridge in background (31). A section of girder bridge is hauled into position on ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.

    A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a sandy clearing. The black African drivers, naked from the waist up, wearing feathered head dresses and carrying ...

     
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    France

    INTERET. Travelogue. A Muslim festival in Delhi.

    Main title (4). HAS of the city (5). Crowded street scenes during the festival (14). A street entertainer watched by the crowds (27). Further street entertainers (49). A procession of people ...

     
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    France

    INSTRUCTIONAL. The manufacture of rope at Howrah.

    Main title (3). Indians unload bales of hemp from a barge on the river (38). Unpacking the hemp and laying it down in thick strands (43-60). Feeding the strands into a machine (64-86). The ...

     
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    INTEREST. Working elephants in India.

    Titles (1). Gap (4). MS three elephants walk along a beach past the camera. In the foreground, three boys squat in a group (? playing a game) (26). MS elephant with two riders walking into deep ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. Indian elephants bathing and working.

    Sea breaking on rocky shoreline (17). Native handlers on Indian elephants emerging from a lake (49). A handler makes his elephant lie down in the water (73). An elephant carrying a piece ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Scenes in North Borneo.

    Titles (11). Gap. Main title (14). Titles (21). MS house, native people in the foreground, a clock tower in the background (32). MS platoon of sentries fall in and the old watch march away (70). ...

     
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    Great Britain

    ACTUALITY. A lion hunt in East Africa.

    "Native lion hunt" (2). An African on horseback canters towards the camera (9). African hunters walk through the bush, each carrying a spear and shield (35). Various shots of the hunters taking ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.

    A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. Promoter of the Empire Day Movement Right Hon. The Earl of Meath K.P., P.C.'. Boys in sailor uniforms and girls in ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. Fishing with dynamite in the Solomon Islands.

    Main title and intertitle (10). A European throws dynamite into a river, it explodes, 'natives' jump in and retrieve the fish (nitrate damage) (48). The action is repeated and the ' ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Kandy, Colombo and the Kelani river.

    Market scene in Kandy. Merchants display their wares, while people, children and animals jostle each other past stalls (33). A street scene in Colombo; ox-wagons vie with carriages drawn by ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.

    Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load a steamer (54). A freighter (101). [Titles describing a buffalo herd, no picture]. Waves crashing against a rocky ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.

    No main title. Tea bushes planted out by natives under European supervision (70). LS of native collecting the leaves (113). CU of a woman picking tea leaves (137). Workers, ...

     
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