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

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.

Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.

A visit to Sierra Leone where much of the world's diamond industry is centred. Processes of preparing diamonds for dispatch. Commentary by Franklin Englemann.

Mitchell Park Show,

Thika

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in Nairobi. She married a motor ...

Kapenguria, Mount Elgon. Kitale club, river, lake. Tribal display. Cattle sale.

Scenes at Victoria Falls

Production / Donor Details: Mr Bryan was an Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia from 1953 - 1961.

Aspects of life in Livingstone.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Bryan was an Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia from 1953 - 1961.

Depicting life on a cedar plantation in Central Africa, showing the nursery, pine tree plantation, pest control, trout fishing and wild plants and flowers.

Film on the role played by British forces in Cyprus, focusing on the balance between celebrations and the need to continue operations against EOKA.

Men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Ulster Regiment land from the ...

The construction, by Richard Costain Ltd, of Kariba Heights, a township to house workers employed on the Kariba Dam project

Survey of the cotton industry in Uganda.

A foot safari with a District Forestry Office, James Lang-Brown, to the top of Mt. Napak, a massif on the border of Karamoja and Teso districts. Team of porters. Mountain scenery. with panoramic views. The mountains were declared ...

The Dudley family sail to Nigeria by passenger ship in 1957, and drive by car to their residence up-country. The film includes family activities outdoors; social gatherings of visitors and locals, city, village and countryside scenes ...

The Empire Games Village Part 2. Teams practising. Impromptu cricket. Fencing practice. Official visit by the Duke of Edinburgh and his inspection of the village and his meetings with the teams and officials. Formation display by a RAF Hawker Hunters ...

Track and field practice by competitors at the village. Formal ceremonies with the hoisting of the national flags and marching by national team members in their smart uniforms. Formal marching by the RAF Band .

Competitors of all races mixing at ...

Formal ceremonies of the Hoisting of National Flags at the Village with the National teams in attendance. Extensive parading by the large national teams with on the sport drill by the Australian men.

Production / Donor Details: The cameraman was ...

Aerial views of the opening of the Games at the Stadium of Cardiff Arms Park and aerial views of the city centre of Cardiff. The Empire Games Village outside Cardiff with the ceremony of the hoisting of the national flags of the contesting countries. ...

I. Eastney AA Range. Series of shots of twin 40mm Bofors on STAAG mounting - crew man the gun, open fire, and train round while firing. Shell cases eject onto the beach.

II. Gibraltar. LS view of the Rock, approaching from seaward - camera boat ...

Film shot by HMS Bulwark's Entertainment Officer, showing some of the ways in which the ship's company amused themselves while anchored off Famagusta with no shore leave other than to a Rest Camp ...

HMS Eagle takes on stores from RFA Retainer, prior to relieving Ark Royal on station in the Mediterranean.

MSs to Retainer as she steams abreast to starboard of the cameraship, HMS Eagle. Men ...

HMS Protector, guardship to the Falkland Islands Dependencies, assists the survey ship RRS Shackleton after damage by ice in the waters off South Georgia.

LS of one of Protector's ...

HMS Eagle at sea, flying off Sea Hawks and Sea Venoms, and at Malta as HMS Victorious comes in to join her in Grand Harbour.

Onboard HMS Eagle at sea. LS aft along the deck as a range of 806 ...

Travelogue.

Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and the latter is commissioned under false pretences to build a tomb where Seeta will be buried alive ...

Travelogue.

Amateur film of Karamoja, Uganda, shot by Michael Wigglesworth who worked as a town planner in Uganda when it was a British colony.

Footage includes: Blood drinking ceremony, cattle market, rain making ceremony, pygmies dancing to ...

Sir Mortimer Wheeler discusses his visit to the ruined city of Zimbabwe, legendary source of King Solomon's gold and subject of much mystery, controversy and speculation.

Rhodesia: miscellaneous views

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...

Sea voyage from Europe to East Africa, via Suez Canal April - May 1958

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...

The work of the land development officer shown in a dramatised account.

Most of the footage was filmed for the Methodist Missionary Society in Kenya for the film called 'African Eden'

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Rev. Jan W. Lewis OBE. He went to Kenya in September 1950 to take over from ...

Passenger airliner arrival at Nairobi /Entebe? airport. Colonial domestic family life in garden of country colonial bungalow. and visit by grandparents. Sumbawanga 1956-58

Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major ...

Andrew's 2nd birthday party at Chapota. Father Christmas arrives to deliver presents. General views of Sumbawanga Village. Life of people in small township. Businesses and townscape.Police station or government post.

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Visit to the Rukwa Valley Game Park (Rukwa Provence) by two couples in Land Rover. Views of wildlife and the topographical nature of the Park.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in ...

Royal visit in Royal yacht Britannia. Tanganyika in the 1950s. Village life Tribal fairs and gatherings. Construction of Colonial bungalow by District Officer. Difficulties of transport in a marshy area. Panorama of distant ...

No titles available. Depicts opening ceremony of Mbereshi Hospital, N. Rhodesia, 11/01/1958. Also shows work of the hospital and medical work in the surrounding areas. Possibly duplicates parts of the LMS film 'Build a Hospital'(minus sound).

A party from HMS Protector and men of the Falkland Islands Defence Force participate in a memorial ceremony at the Battle of the Falklands Memorial in Port Stanley.

Detachment ...

Amateur film without titles shot by 2nd Lieutenant Richard House during his National Service while serving with the Royal East Kent Regiment (the Buffs) in Aden records on and off-duty scenes, including Trooping the Colour and the Moslem festival of ...

Maps of Uganda Protectorate, showing Entebbe. Various scenes - at dockside; markets; native troops; dance and masking. Journey upcountry with porters and assistants - surveying? Snake in tent; drawing water. Swimming. Further ...

Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.

Complications ensue for two game warden brothers in Africa when the girlfriend of one of them arrives from England.

The visit of Sir Gilbert and Lady Gilbert ot Lusaka - arrival by train, meets local workers, is sworn in, opens school and hotel and opens silicosis bureau in Kitwe.

Amateur film shot by Brian Randolph Everett while serving in the British Army as a National Serviceman during the Malayan Emergency but showing only off-duty scenes in the vicinity of Port Dickson (Negeri Sembilan), including enjoying the company of ...