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 ...
'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).
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.
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.
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, ...
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 ...
Illustrates primitive methods of iron smelting by means of account of methods used today by the Bantu peoples.
Celebrations in Zanzibar to mark the 70th birthday of the Sultan Seyyid Khalifa Bin Harub.
Attempts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese occupied Java.
Described by the voiceover as 'the true story of Mai Mangwende, the wife of Chief Mangwende of Southern Rhodesia and the African women's clubs she founded all over the Mangwende reserves'.
Mai Mangwende addresses a group of women in a ...
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 ...
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
