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

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.

A general review of Malaya, which seems to be a double battleground, containing a fight against Communism and a struggle to unite its diverse races into one, po litical economic nation.

Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all over East Africa, as shown through the experiences of a typical female student.

The film opens with shots ...

The control of bilharzia and malaria in Rhodesia.

An industrial process film for Tate and Lyle, showing the growth and processing of sugar cane, from the fields of Jamaica to the factories of London.

Introduced with the animated image of Mr Cube announcing 'Mr Cube Presents', the ...

INTEREST. A film on the Gold Coast [Ghana], including a record of the 1946 Ashanti Durbar at Kumase.

RL.1 The town and port of Accra. 200 miles inland, the town of Kumase, capital of Ashanti. Mixture of African and European ...

"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and ...

A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.

Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.

'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...

The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.

The film begins by offering a historical consideration of the three territories. First, Bechuanaland, which is 'mostly ...

Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made into valuable compost (instead of providing breeding grounds for flies). Shows the use of compost in growing ...

A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.

"The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...

Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken from rickshaw. "The Colossi of Memnon" "Assouan - Nile steamer to Abu-Simbel" "Wadi-Halfa" "Sudan ...

Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.

A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.

The film opens with a shot of blocks and then shows an African man working on their production in a small hole in the ground. With his wife ...

INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.

Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the Sahara - cattle grazing (92). Herdsman with herd (108). Native men and children in ...

Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.

No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the head of the queue is a Nigerian (16). MS of the Nigerian seated and smiling ...