A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
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.
A travelogue showing Acre, the river Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Bethlehem and Hebron.
Life in an agricultural village in the Punjab and the daily round.
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 ...
Amateur film. ?Camp in Waziristan, Khyber. Sunset in camp, blockhouse and many tents in lines, camels and drivers.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY NETWORK: ROUTES, CONSTRUCTION WORK, STATIONS, WORKSHOPS, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
Palestine in the present day, arranged as to illustrate the New Testament of the Bible.
THE PRINCE OF WALES‰ TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA, MAY-JULY 1925
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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. " ...
A detailed look at rice cultivation in Burma.
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. ...
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 ...
Scenes of the life of the people of Palestine, contrasting the ancient and the modern.
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 ...
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 ...
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/ ...
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 ...