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  • 1955 : the year in Malaya
    Malaya

    Malayan Government propaganda.

    The film covers the first Malayan general elections, emphasising popular support for Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Alliance Party. Cabinet members are seen beginning work. "The new era ...

     
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    1959 1959

    Malaya

    Government film reviewing the year, 1959.

    Catalogue coverage. Royal tour of Brunei. Tunku Abdul Rahman, one of Asia's "most enlightened leaders", visits the Philippines.Tun Abdul Razak becomes PM. Emergency ...

     
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    GB

    I. LS-CU as one of 848's American-built Whirlwind HAS.21s sweeps in to land in a cleared area. Aerial view from helicopter in flight over cultivated land. Sequence showing two helicopters, recognition letters 'H' and 'F', landing Gurkhas at Kampong ...

     
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    Malaya

    A modern prison in Malaya is not only a place of punishment but of rehabilitation. Through the eyes of a man on a long-term sentence, the film shows how once the discipline of prison life has been accepted, a man can earn privileges and ...

     
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    Visit to Brunei on the north coast of Borneo with its large oilfield. Tourist attractions.

     
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    How the Govt. of Singapore has set about the gigantic problem of housing Hong ko ng's swelling population.

    Achievement in Hong Kong was made in 1958 by the production company Leander Films for the British government’s Central ...
     
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    ADEN 1959

    THIS WEEK [ITV/Rediffusion, 1956-68]Great Britain

    TV Coverage of Aden. Prefer to be British? Shots of Ports and Ships.

     
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    ADEN 1959

    THIS WEEK [ITV/Rediffusion, 1956-68]Great Britain

    TV coverage of Aden in 1959.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Admiral W N Fechteler USN visits Malta, November 26 1953.

    Admiral Fechteler emerges from Skymaster to be welcomed by Admiral and Lady Mountbatten. He takes salute and inspects Guard of Honour ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Admiral Sir Guy Grantham (Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean) holds his first Area Commanders' meeting at HAFMED, Malta.

    Various Area Commanders and other Chiefs of Staff arrive, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Set in Africa just after the Boer war, tells of the journey of four men into the African bush, in search of hidden diamonds.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Aerial views of jungle terrain filmed from one of the helicopters of 848 Squadron.

    Aerial views of jungle-covered hills. The tops of the ridges are obscured by a dense cloud layer which the ...

     
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    USA

    Adventures of Trinidad night-club dancer and brother of her murdered husband in tracking down group of enemy spies responsible for the crime.

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary. Tracing the road from French Equatorial Africa to Kenya.

    Fort Lhani(?) French Equatorial Africa to British East Africa by road. The Vanana(?) tribe `beehive' buildings, central granary building, people fishing, a tomb. ...

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society in South Rhodesia at Inyati, Hope Fountain, Dombodema, Shangani and Lupani. Surveys evangelism, education, farming and agriculture, handcrafts, health and maternity services.

     
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    Rhodesia

    Standard tourist film about the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.

     
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    Great Britain

    INSTRUCTIONAL. View of the village belonging to the Mashona tribe. Cattle and goats are herded through the village. Children play. Villagers leave their huts carrying implements for the day's work (38). Ground is cleared of tree roots and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Two natives of Southern Rhodesia chop down a tree and make a dug-out canoe from a section of the trunk. A finished canoe is then seen on the Zambezi.

     
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    Great Britain

    Natives of the Mashona tribe build a hut from wooden poles, grass and mud, and a family is then seen at home.

     
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    Great Britain

    Tribal life in Kenya; local religions; educational, medical and other activities of the Methodist Church.

     
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    Great Britain

    Shows traditional methods of pottery making, basket weaving, the making of hunti ng weapons, boat building and ceremonial dances in East Africa.

     
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    Great Britain, USA

    Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are forced to escape from the Germans down the river in an old boat and conceive a plan to improvise torpedos to attach to the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.