The installation of Sekgoma Khama as chief, 28th May 1923. Shows the main ceremony with British officials and the attendant crowd. "His Majesty in Court Dress - top hat and frock coat" with a shot of the Chief flanked by ...
Convoy of troops and camel trains along (?) Khyber Pass enters camp. CU Camels. Mules and camp activities.
Amateur footage of train at platform with guard of honour; parade. Original label mentioned Prince of Wales.
One of Uganda's native kings salutes the Union Jack during an Empire Day ceremony in South Africa. Film supplied by J.Y.T.A. [?] (58ft).
Newsreel compilation of stories shot between May 1923 and August 1923.
"TIDWORTH TATTOO Musical Ride by the 12th Lancers." (31st July 1923 1290 (3)) (4). [No picture]. Gaumont Logo (5). "ENGLAND'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL. Head Master ...
Includes the item 'West Africa in England'.
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
Main title and credit (15). The Governor's entourage preceeded by a guard of honour walk from Government House along a red carpet lined with ...
Animation. Silhouette, white on black.
"Lyman H. Howe presents Hunting Lions in Africa" (3). A man on the back of an elephant shoots at a lion. The lion retaliates and chases the man and elephant. Monkeys run up palm trees out of the path of ...
DRAMA. Mesopotamia. Captain Richard Galt is appointed as political officer to El Ragi and becomes popular with the natives. He falls in love with a native girl which is used by his political opponents to stir up rebellion. The ...
The film show the day to day running of the Titaghur Jute company, which is in Bengal on the banks of the river Hooghly. Opening shot 360 degree pan of industrial buildings. 7000 Indian workers are employed, mostly women and children. ...
Footage of Sir Harry Lauder's round the world trip, camp life in Africa (?).
No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, a group of Africans (Hausa) leave the store (17). "Messrs. Christian's Stre" (20). Two Europeans walk down a path from the ...
INTEREST. Travelogue of Uganda around the Semliki river.
Main title: "This chapter being `ON THE EQUATOR'" (5). Credit and intertitle (29). LS of bush, mountains in background and bird sitting on tree branch (31). LS of bull elephant ...
Comedy.
Travelogue of Fiji: Fijians making baskets and mats from coconut palms; ripening bananas in a pit; making kava; preparing a fire-walking pit; sailing in outriggers.
Srinagar waterways street scenes; Martand ruins. A European intervenes in a fight(?) between a man and a boy. The European leads the boy away.
Cherry Kearton's journey in the Congo, showing wildlife along the course of Semliki River.
Lord Grenfell lays the foundation stone of the Malta Pavilion for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. Scenes of construction. Filmed by Hutchins and Heath (99ft).
TRAVEL. Scenes on the island of Tristan da Cunha and at Cape Town prior to leaving.
Main Title: `To Tristan da Cunha on HMS "Dublin" - March 1923' (7). Shots of HMS Dublin standing in and then leaving port at Cape Town (64). Left-to- ...
Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of the visit of president Poincare to Jamrud Fort on the Kyhber. Six officers flanking three civilians and the group going off in car. Views inside the fort. Motor and animal traffic on the approach road.
Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of Waziristan scouts (soldiers) - sitting at camp; camel caravan in mountainous terrain. Scouts rushing down rocky hillside, smoke from firing, troops taking avoiding action.
The Dugmore-Harris expedition to East Africa which was made to photograph wildlife in its natural surroundings. From a hide by a water-hole the following are observed:-
R1.1. Oryx (401-587); Marabou stork (589-752); eagle (735-775); ...
