ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.

Main title. The Governor and his party get out of a car at the inspection ground, a wide expanse of grass and trees (30). Lord Lytton mounts a horse by ...

Scenes from Basutoland.

The intertitles outline a history of Basutoland, interspersed with shots of a Bushman and a tribal leader, before showing a local village, and its 'native huts'. Aspects of local life are depicted ...

The King-Emperor's horse race at Calcutta, India.

Government of India Censor Certificate (6). Main title (10). "The King Emperor's Cup Race 1925" (18). Scenes at Calcutta race track, Europeans passing the camera entering the course (102). "Scenes ...

The Calcutta Cup Race, 1925; arrival of the Lyttons and of Lord Reading, Viceroy of India.

Government of India censor certificate (6). Main title (12). "The race for the Viceroy's Cup Calcutta 26 Decr: '25" (19). MS of the cup (24). "Orange ...

Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and general conditions in the Sudan in the latter half of the 1920s. The areas covered are Kadugli, Amadi, Mardi ...

DOCUMENTARY. Extract showing scenes of an African native funeral, in which women dance around the seated corpse (43-162); a montage of the dancing women (191 ft).

INSTRUCTIONAL. Opens with views of mountains and coastline (67), a stream crossed by a wooden bridge and fringed with luxuriant vegetation (105) and an old Fiji warrior with his war club (134). Views of Suva from above ...

"A GOLD COAST ROMANCE - Police Corporal Williams and his dusky bride, from the Exhibition native village, married at St. Johns Church, Wembley" (2). Williams and his wife along with their best man walk through a row of white ...

Amateur film. ?Camp in Waziristan, Khyber. Sunset in camp, blockhouse and many tents in lines, camels and drivers.

AMATEUR. Scenes in an Indian wildlife park.

A couple, in colonial style clothes, stand behind a tapir. The man strokes and pats the animal (17) [slight jump in film]. The same couple stand on a river bank with another, similarly ...

King George V and Queen Mary visit the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and see the miniature railway (108ft).

Note: See also 111ft offcuts under title (QUEEN MARY AT EXHIBITION).

ACTUALITY. An amalgamation of two events featuring the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The opening of the exhibition by King George V (23/4/1925) and the royal visit with King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Rumania (14/5/ ...

INTEREST. Record of a journey in Africa, possibly in Nigeria.

No titles. Europeans stand by a train (1 frame). Logs seen floating in the sea. The sea can be seen stretching to the horizon. At another angle the land can be seen a a ...

Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; the Sultan of Fallata; a ceremonial parade of Arab and Nuba chieftains.

Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.

Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - the influence of home'), the film next shows Livingstone studying medicine at ...

INTEREST. Scenes of African life in the Congo.

Main title (5). A mother sitting on the ground and surrounded by baskets tends her baby. She has decorative scarring on her back (41). CU of man's head with scarring on the forehead ...

Production footage for a film about a journey down the River Niger, Africa.

No titles. LS man scaling down a palm tree (30). Africans working in a vegetable plot (33). Closer view of man in plam tree (44). HAS of compound yard; ...

A journey along the West African coast to Lagos and scenes in Lagos.

No main title. "At sunrise we arrive off Freetown, Sierra Leone..." (12). Sunrise (14). Africans swimming from canoes (33). "Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone ...

A series of shots of the Niger Company's, J. Walkden's and W.B. McIver's buildings in Nigeria, usually consisting of a shot of the building exterior, clearly marked, with Africans entering and leaving the buildings.

"The Niger ...

A drama of tribal life in Central Africa.

'Nionga, a chieftain's daughter, is induced by a vindictive witch-doctor to persuade her betrothed lover, Kasari, to plot the destruction of a neighbouring tribe. During the wedding ...

Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film charts the Prince's journey from Kumasi to Accra, before showing ...

Scenes from the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to South Africa, May 1925.

Main title and credits (33). MS Prince of Wales amongst a crowd ...

TRAVELOGUE. Item from a cinemagazine showing waterways in San Chiao-pu, China - views of house-lined waterways (64); the nearby resort of Mokan-shan (103); and Burmese dancers and musicians performing before a temple (142ft).

A detailed look at rice cultivation in Burma.

Prince Henry in Hyde Park for Empire Day celebrations (52ft).

A travelogue showing Acre, the river Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Bethlehem and Hebron.

"INCIDENTS DURING HIS VISIT TO FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE". Two shots of official ceremonies during which the Prince is not seen recognisably. "CHOCOLATE GIRL GUIDES". African girl guides and the Prince talking to their leader. " ...

Life in an agricultural village in the Punjab and the daily round.

TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.

The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further shots of the tombs and temples (34-62); natives and donkeys and children seated on the ground ...

Amateur film. Waterway in Srinigar; bridge; waterfront and river traffic.

Salvation army workers among the Bhil tribesmen, caring for Burmese and Ceylonese children, and the work of the Catherine Booth Memorial Hospital. Native life and scenes in India, Burma and Ceylon.

Rl. 1. Travelling along a country ...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY NETWORK: ROUTES, CONSTRUCTION WORK, STATIONS, WORKSHOPS, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

King George V and Queen Mary at Wembley Stadium for Empire Day service (65ft).

A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).

Amateur film showing a hill station above Madras and a tiger hunt. Various shots of the Togas tribe. Scenes of Port Said and Aden.

Amateur film made by Viscount Hinchingbrooke on a world cruise 1924/5 from San Francisco to the Far East and India.

In August 1924 Victor Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, aged 17, and his grandmother, the Countess ...

Palestine in the present day, arranged as to illustrate the New Testament of the Bible.

Scenes of the life of the people of Palestine, contrasting the ancient and the modern.

THE PRINCE OF WALES‰ TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA, MAY-JULY 1925

The film opens with a globe, on which Zanzibar is highlighted. The titles outline the role of the island as 'one of the most important centres for the commerce of the Indian ocean' as the film shows shots of a local market. ...

Scenes of traditional Indian life in the mid-1920s.

The film appears to start in Calcutta with street scenes, and views of some of the buildings, both Western and Eastern in influence. A funeral procession takes ...