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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 ...
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 ...
TV Coverage of Aden. Prefer to be British? Shots of Ports and Ships.
TV coverage of Aden in 1959.
Standard tourist film about the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.
Tribal life in Kenya; local religions; educational, medical and other activities of the Methodist Church.
AKC News Parade film No.323, 13 April 1959; including visit of Prince Philip to Christmas Island; floods in Madagascar; the journey of US nuclear submarine USS Skate to the North Pole, and the scattering of the ashes of the Australian explorer, Sir ...
I. MS sequence as HMS Eastbourne (F.73) leaves Portsmouth, heading out towards Spithead. Whirlwind anti-submarine helicopter, minesweeper HMS Killiekrankie (M.1128), and a small motor vessel, Jato, also appear on screen.
II. Squid ATW. MCU of ...
Amateur. People on beach. Locals fishing.
The work of the Zambesi valley game rangers, the effects of lake Kariba and its dam on wildlife and "Operation Noah".
An account of a typical days work by an English policeman in a provincial city - Leicester.
Hong Kong and port seen through the eyes of a typical New Yorker.
A film of a safari from Isiolo in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya across Chalbi desert to North Horr(?). 2 Landrovers with police radio equipment to keep in touch with outside world.
ACTUALITY. Local chieftains at an official function in Nigeria.
The history of coffee-growing and a detailed description of the coffee industry in East Africa.
First shown in Nairobi in March 1959, the film was made on location throughout East Africa, including ...
The tour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to India, Pakistan, Sarawak, Singapore, North Borneo, Hong Kong, the Solomon, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Christmas Island, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Northern Line Islands.
The growing processing and weaving of cotton from East Africa.
Scenes - mostly in Moroto - of living in Karamoja, Uganda.
Includes: building Morotochurch; a 'barazza' (meeting with tribesmen) in Rupa, a settlement at the foot of mount Moroto; the bi-weekly Moroto bus (the only public ...
A record of life in the District HQ of Karamoja Distrcit, Uganda, 1958 - 60. Edited. Personal film, but also show this remote station, the housing, office and dukas (shops), activities like refuse collection and the station farm, ...
The Emir's palace and town street scenes in Zaria, Nigeria
Procession involving the Etsu of Nupe; shots of life in the town of Bida, Nigeria
A travelogue taking the form of a car journey through the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
A car with luggage on its roof passes a sign saying 'Welcome to Bulawayo' as the voiceover emphasises the development of the city 'in the seventy ...
Outlining farming methods in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and highlighting in particular the importance of rainfall.
The film opens with a shot of an African on a tractor, but then focuses predominantly on the experiences of ...
News From Nyasaland - Queen's birthday celebrations, visit to tea factory, Sir Robert Armitage at Lake Nyasa.
Up Here From Down Under - Australian trade mission.
The Broken Hill Festival - ...