Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.

Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.

Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...

INTEREST. The work of the craftsmen in the Kenyan textile industry and the West African silversmiths and jewellers.

INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.

Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...

Good practice in animal husbandry illustrated through the daily life of a Kenyan cattle farmer. He milks cows, delivers milk to the dairy, looks after cattle, castrates bulls. The Veterinary Service helps to improve his livestock.

AMATEUR. Footage of events in Bahrain 1938-48.

An animated map is shown, followed by general views of the country, and its peop le and their work. Concluding with a horse race.

Near Nairobi, Kenya. Africans build a good permanent house using mainly materials which are available on the spot.

In a local village a colonial official arrives in a car to help re-build a house for locals. The film commentary ...

Account of the delights of fishing for tuna and other large fish.

HOME MOVIES. Scenes of the sugar cane industry in British Guiana (Guyana).

Sugar cane loaded from boat onto a river bank. Man cutting down cane with a machete. Man carrying cane on head and throwing it into a large rectangular ...

Includes item on Gandhi's fasts in India to bring about Hindu and Muslim unificaiton.

Includes Jewish refugees in Cyprus.

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIAL TO HISTORIC BATTLE LORD LOUIS AT JAIPUR CELEBRATIONS FARMERS' HUNT IN WARWICKSHIRE MONTY VISITS ACCRA RUGBY. WALES V. AUSTRALIA

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA.

Items include: WALLABIES HUMBLE ENGLAND BURMA CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE IN LONDON The NEW YEAR

INTEREST.

RL.1 Opening shots of an arch in Colombo and Ceylonese people. After the achievement of full independence, the opening of the new Parliament by the Duke of Gloucester is shown. A brief historical resume of ...

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

ACTUALITY. The 1948 Conservative Party conference: Oliver Stanley's speech on the benefits brought to the colonies by private enterprise and R.A.Butler's presentation of the Agricultural Charter.

1. Coastal Trader: Indian seamen in their primitive vessels. 2. Doggett's Coat and Badge: the annual race in London for Doggett's coat and Badge, and £20, the race is rowed in light skiffs from London Bridge to Chelsea, by ...

The method of harvesting cocoa in the Cold Coast. The cultural background of the people and cutting of the cocoa pods to the export of the beans are shown.

An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.

Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm ...

The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.

A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined metal into pure copper bars.

Part 1. Milling Shows the various crushing and grinding machines, including: the primary ...

The development of the Falkland Islands dependencies under British administration; the lives of the men stationed there.

Although British claims to parts of the Antarctic can arguably be traced as far back as Anthony de la Roch& ...

Problem of the Italian Colonies, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia; how they were acquired by Italy; their position in the war and their future. This Modern Age series. no. 20.

The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.

Offcuts. Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence ...

Guests arrive at Government House, New Delhi, and are greeted by Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Shots of Indian officers in ceremonial uniform, guests mingling in the background. Three American? Army officers (two are ...

A historical costume drama, adapted from a popular stage play (A Patriot), glorifying the Song minister Wen Tianxiang, who chose to die for the dynasty in the 12th century rather than surrender to the alien enemy. The film serves as a political ...

Family scenes in the UK while on leave in the late 1930s and 1940s.

India street scenes with monkey trainer and rickshaw .Smartly dressed Europeans in a park setting with expensive large cars. Celebration party for Indian ...

Motorcycle sports newsreel.

i) Sunbeam Point-To-Point A Scramble At Longmoor, Hants. Scenes from the annual motorcycle scramble at Longmoor Heath in Hampshire in 1948. Describes the course layout and the aims of scramble courses. ...

Jungle Jim and Dr. Parker arrange a safari to get a valuable drug to cure polio. The trip is sabotaged by a vagrant posing as a god, but all ends well.

Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.

The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. Intended as one of a group of films made by the CFU showing the large towns of the Empire.

Travelogue.

(B&W) Indian dignitaries await the arrival of Lord Mountbatten. Brief shot of Mountbatten stepping off the launch. He and Lady Mountbatten are greeted and introduced to the dignitaries. A shot of the people lined up ...

A mute educational film portraying life in a typical Malay village of fishermen and rice-farmers.

Brief titles introduce each sequence, but there is almost no comment, the film being left to speak for itself. The ...

How Malaya has developed its armed forces since the last war.

The Royal Malayan Navy, a small fleet with all the tradition of an ancient discipline, is profiled first; the ships are provided by Britain, the ...

A description of the operations and the versatility of Radio Malaya.

Every day "the voice of Malaya" broadcasts educational, information and entertainment programmes in four languages. Inhabitants are shown at ...

Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.

The film shows the role of the chief in stimulating economic and social progress and how European and African institutions operate side by side. It then shows ...

Home movie taken by England opening bat, Jack Robertson on the MCC tour of the West Indies in 1948. Shows some cricket and some `off duty' action.

Pottery in Sierra Leone.

Reel 1: (Mixed Colour/B&W) IEME School at Kirkee (near Poona), prior to Indian Partition and the creation of Pakistan. British officers fire pistol and rifle on range. Bulldozer clears a malaria site. Indian/Pakistani soldiers pack up, prior to the ...

A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation of ground-nuts and cattle keeping.

HOME MOVIES. A trip to New York by the Eisner family, and scenes in British Guiana (Guyana).

View of Southampton docks as ship sails from it. The New York skyline viewed as ship enters port. New York street scenes. New York suburb ...

Leslie Henson's home movie. Sierra Leone. Leslie Henson with native girl. Game reserve. Natives

The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and hired labourer, successfully harvests and sells his cocoa beans.

The commentator introduces Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa ...

The lifestyle of the jungle nomads of the Malay Peninsular rainforest. Life with a nomadic tribe in Malaya, as seen through eyes of Loon, the son of the chief-man. The film shows the tribe setting up a new camp, collecting ...