INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the coast. Views of pools by the river used to wash for diamonds; views of a market; views of steam ...
The rising standard of health of the native communities of East Africa brought about by improved methods of cattle farming.
The film was produced from Animal Husbandry (1948)
The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.
The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...
The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...
Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and see a fire display.
'Gold Coast government starts Canning Factory' Women cleaning ...
'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads from woodblocks.
'Fiji' A general survey of the islands and industry. AV of ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.
A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; the history, geography and social life of the inhabitants.
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.
A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...
Anthony Eden's Empire tour. The London County Council elections. Food rationing. The Young Conservatives' conference at Filey including a visit to Butlin's. Extract from Churchill's speech at the M.I.T. praising the deterrent powers of the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working of it. A British contribution to the Western genre.
Ladymead is a Georgian Mansion in which four generations of women have lived while their husbands are away at war. In each case the husband returns home expecting his wife to be unchanged.
Kenya. A District Development Team tackles disease, bad farming methods and ignorance.
Reel 1: (Can marking: Bombay Yacht Club, Willingdon, Ratnagiri, Susie Buchan) (Colour, US 1944 date mark) Murray by Indian beach. Served beer by waiter at sports club, around pool. English woman. Kabbadi wrestling. (US 1941 date mark) Close-ups of ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).
Cinemagazine chronicling the change and progress taking place in the Gold Coast.
"Consists of the following items:- 'Number, Please!' The Story of the training of Telephone operators at the Central Telephone Exchange in Accra. ...
Cinemagazine chronicling the change and progress taking place in the Gold Coast.
"Consists of the following items:- Governor meets Chiefs at Dodowah: the first meeting of the Governor with the Joint Provincial Council of Chiefs ...
The work of the Central Hospital, Elat, Cameroun, especially its care for lepers. The case of Moses Mvondo is followed from his father leaving him at the hospital to his cure three years later.
Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.
The people, resources, towns and way of life.
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.
Scenes around a farm bought in Kenya.
KENYA GLIMPSES. Kenyan farm. Cattle, ox wagon, landscape, watering cattle, farmhouse, washing coffee berries. Sorting coffee. Lucerne (plant used as animal fodder) for cattle. Nairobi. Airport ...
Attempts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese occupied Java.
In a period of warfare between Malayan bandits and British security forces, the Army and RAF work closely together, and planes fly in a constant supply of food and ammunition, particularly into closely wooded areas where ...
4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in five weeks against top English amateur sides.
The African players, having arrived on 29 August 1949 in Liverpool, ...
(Poor tramlined print, original must be colour) Detailed report on Operation Harness, from preliminary trial off Portland in September 1948 to test sampling equipment, to arrival in Antigua (30/11/ ...
Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.
Illustrates primitive methods of iron smelting by means of account of methods used today by the Bantu peoples.
Princess Elizabeth visits Malta.
Inspection in HMS Glory on HM The King's Birthday, December 1949. Taken by HMS Glory.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete since film has not ...
Review of the main events of the year, including signing of Atlantic Pact; end of Berlin blockade; advance of Communism with Chinese troops in Shanghai (British troops sent to Hong Kong to counter) and Soviet troops in Red Square; Marshal Tito; Council ...
A rubber plantation in Malaya, showing the production of rubber, and the welfare and living conditions of the workers.
AN EXPEDITION TO THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL MADE IN 1947 TO OBSERVE THE LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF THE XAVANTES INDIANS
Development of the oil industry in the Middle East and the improvements it has brought.
Cultivation of tobacco, season by season on a Southern Rhodesian estate,from the preparation of the ground to the curing and grading of the leaves.
General account of the production of tobacco, with special reference to Southern Rhodesia; includes a study of an actual tobacco estate; with its seasonal activities and life in the native kraal.
Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.
The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit from the trees in their baskets and then carrying the baskets on their heads. The commentator explains that ...
EXPLORATION FOR OIL IN PAPUA.
A JOURNEY ALONG THE UPPER ZAMBEZI> BY CANOE
Coffee cultivation around the village of Marangu on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro.
I. BERLIN. a. Arrival of millionth ton of the airlift, by RAF York to Gatow, also bringing Air Marshal Williams (special flag etc). b. Eastern Police put up barricades on sector borders. c. Berlin Conference of Western cities' ...
I. BERLIN: airlift flies in fuel oils. Film of a British Zone airfield with adapted Lancastrians (and a Tudor 2) being loaded; Lancastrian takes off, lands at Gatow, fuel unloaded and distributed by pipeline, barge and tanker ...
I. BERLIN. a. Visit of Archbishop of York: met by General Bourne, visits army and airlift offices. b. USAF flies in Mercedes-Benz ambulances. c. Following non-recognition by East and West sectors of each other's currency, ...
