Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.

Voyage out on troopship Dorsetshire from Liverpool to Port Said (Egypt), through Suez Canal and Red Sea, past oil tanks and Arab dhows ...

INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.

The film opens with a local looking at a sign post 'To Kingolwira'. The African sets off in this direction and comes to a ...

Everyday use of asphalt for roadmaking and roofing are followed by a description of the Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad, the work at the lakeside, in the refineries and in the barrel factory. The mechanised making and filling of barrels is ...

Baghdad: - suk, forbidden Muharram festival procession and back street scenes. Kuwait:- 'id al Adha, bedu camp, Gerald de Gaurey - political resident coming ashore.

INTEREST. A native of the Mashanne tribe plucks, with tweezers, the beard of a native of the Dabarra tribe (85). [16mm]

AMATEUR. Film of Burma.

Dam. Street scenes - Arab costumes possibly Sudan. Coronation Coach in Britain - Jubilee procession for George V. Dam again. Grandstand at racecourse? River journey through Burma. Giant Buddhas.

Note: ...

Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.

Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by L.L.R. Buckland, a civil engineer in the Tanganyika Public Works ...

Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, showing scenes at Hong Kong, Christmas 1936.

The film shows Christmas celebrations formal and informal on board HMS Capetown at Hong Kong ...

Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes at Hong Kong and Nanking, 1936.

The film begins with a slow pan across the harbour of Hong Kong. There are shots of Chinese ...

The production of cocoa beans in the Gold Coast and their shipment to England.

After an opening title explaining that 'most of the raw cocoa used in England grows in Africa on the Gold Coast - a part of the British Empire', a map of ...

INTEREST. A woman potter from the Quambo tribe of northern South-West Africa is seen at work. She works smoking a pipe and has some "Omepo" plant in her ear to prevent deafness. Smoothing the interior and exterior of pot with a shell. ...

Malay Regiment, August 1936. Presentation of Swords of Honour to Malay Officers in Kuala Lumpur.

TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE ƒHONEY> IS MADE INTO A TYPE OF ƒBEER>BY HEATING, STRAINING, AND EXTRACTION

The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.

Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on its journey in the Himalayas. Views of the tea-gardens with waterfalls (118). A ...

INTEREST. Material apparently shot for PEARLS AND SAVAGES and the JUNGLE WOMAN (?) re-edited and provided with a first person narration to form a story line: a team of explorers search for their lost companions in the New Guinea jungle and escape the ...

Film shot by Col. Sir Alister Ransford, showing various activities of the Royal Mint in Bombay.

"The Front Porch and Drive" [Colour faded]. Pan ext of building with a few people wandering. "Tennis Court. Mint Recreation Club". Europeans playing a ...

(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, ...

AMATEUR. Footage of a journey aboard the SS Maloja from Bombay to Plymouth via, Aden, the Suez Canal, Port Said, Messina, and Gibraltar.

ACTUALITY. Indians gathering honey from trees.

L.S. man in top branches of a tree lowering a basket of honey to the ground (16). An Indian, at the foot of the tree, throws a rope into the branches. The honey gatherer climbs up the ...

Gibraltar. Harbour. Town and street life. Aircraft carrier at anchor with fly past of Gloucester Gladiator fighters. Family holiday in New Zealand. Peking: Forbidden city, Temple of Heaven. Tourists on Great Wall of China. Hong Kong ...

Coastal scenes around Hong Kong. The sea front of Hong Kong city from the sea.

Shanghai ?. Chinese street scenes with wedding procession. City centre with palace and Pagoda. Mass Chinese wedding with posed formal photograph and ...

Market scene, cattle in river, village scene with elephant and wild deer; more elephants, village scene, coconuts, bats in trees. Flowers in park, Cabbage Palm Avenue, street scenes, lake, elephants in river, view of lake, street ...

The majority of this film documents the construction of a bridge in India. Both the local workers as well as the British engineers can be seen. There is also a small portion of the film in which goats are beheaded in a small pen.

This is a film which documents the filmmaker and his family both in the business sector of life as well as private and family oriented sector. The film opens with views around the city (Calcutta?) including a large fountain in the ...

Travelogue of Ceylon. Shrines, pottery, various methods of fishing as used in Ceylon. We see fishing with a hand net, a special kind of drag-net, and fishing from a catamaran. The film ends with a final view of Colombo.

Gold Coast. Rural Colonial Fort / Residence. British Colonial officer with wife walks down exterior stairs to courtyard where they and their son play with their dogs. In the Courtyard there is drawn up a Guard of African troops with ...

Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of locusts in huge cloud attacking trees and almost blackening out the light. Tribal gathering in flat scrub ...

Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country and carry this away in a long column. Large group of men and teenage boys work on the construction of an earth embankment in ...

Gold Coast. Inter Title "Funeral Costoms by Kumasi Chief in Remebrance of the late Sir Cecil Armitage and Mr N. S. Newlands. Kumasi. 12th Apirl 1933." At a large outdoor gathering, held on a sports field, the Ashanti people re-enact ...

Life in India 1936

The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation of film and crude animated maps, the film's principle concern being the importance of communication to ...

Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows and calves; he talks to African herdsmen. `All is well, Bwana': various farm animals; sheep shearing; oxen pull ...

Sensational melodrama of a convict settlement on a tropical island, where the brutal Deputy Commandant exploits the prisoners and sparks off a revolt.

A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER ƒMEDICINE WOMEN>

A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY

Muharram (Islamic month of mourning) procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings. Changa Manga tramway with children playing on a trolley car. Gymkhana children's party with costumes, merry-go-rounds, camel rides and the "Punjabi ...

DOCUMENTARY. The rebuilding of Palestine.

rl.1 Primitive life in Palestine - threshing by hand - a camel powers a water wheel. An Arab Muezzin in Jerusalem, the gates, streets and bazaars - the churches and mosques, the Via Dolorosa - the tomb ...

Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.

Sign to and view of Chakdara Fort. Urban and agricultural scenes in Northern India. Road marker sign to Kulu and Pandoh in Himalayas. ...

Amateur film without titles shot by the Deputy-Prime Minister of Johore (Malaya), Abdul Azis, records distant views of a Wehrmacht parade and overhead Luftwaffe flypast, and views of Baden Baden where he was taking the waters with his wife, and where ...

"Agfa" Two men on a raft splitting bamboo. Locals leaving riverside huts, carrying boxes. Two British women among them and local women carrying babies. A British man at the end of the line with a pipe and ...

The mica industry in India and Britain; notably at the Chrestian Mining company, Domchanch.

Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.

British adults and children, wearing solar topees, attend fete at Churat. British soldiers (presumably Highland Light Infantry) with ...

Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.

The Governor General Lord Clarendon opens the Empire Exhibition at Milner Park, Johannesburg, on September 15th 1936. Some of the features of the exhibition are shown.

Scenes of the Phillips family, amateur film-makers, in Hong Kong: on their verandah; at a wedding; on the beach.

Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.

Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS