NEWSFILM. Mrs Diana Strickland arrives home after her African motor tour (28ft).
Note: Offcuts under title MRS STRICKLAND HOME (75ft).
NEWSFILM. Mrs Diana Strickland arrives home after her African motor tour (28ft).
Note: Offcuts under title MRS STRICKLAND HOME (75ft).
"Sir Alan Cobham makes final trials over the River Medway, of the all-metal flying-boat 'Singapore'". Map showing the route to be taken (10- 23). The flying-boat taxi-ing across the water (30). Long shot of men in the flying ...
Travelogue. Scenes of African life. Probably offcuts and clips from different films.
No main title. Street scenes in a North African/Arab town; narrow streets, only pedestrians present, shop fronts onto street, Arab dress and Muslim ...
TRAVELOGUE. A Pathé colour film showing African natives throwing cartridges into a river and catching the stunned fish.
African tribal dancing.
DRAMA. A group of settlers are attacked by Arabs and lions.
Three settlers are besieged by a group of hostile Arabs. The settler's wife manages to phone for help to a neighbouring settler, Jean Lestrac, who sets off on his horse across the ...
Three brothers shoulder the blame for a theft, and join the Foreign Legion.
DRAMA. Young officer rescues sweetheart from native uprising on plantation.
Captain Williams visits a plantation in the tropics to see his sweetheart, the owner's daughter. During his stay he rebukes the brutal overseer, Pedro, for his ...
INTEREST. A trip along the Zambesi in a steamer.
Titles for the series. (10) Map of Africa. (26) CU area around Beira. (37) Main titles. (44) "One of the most magnificent rivers in Africa" (48) Titles. (80) Iris opens out on a silhouette ...
INTEREST. The quarrying and processing of clay to make bricks in Africa.
No titles. Pan left of village (10). Pan left of industrial complex, with water tanks, spoil heaps, smoking chimneys and factories (51). Pan right of processing ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of the railway builders.
Main title (15). A map of the route (44-57). View from Table Mountain (69-79). Pan of Cape Town ...
INTEREST. Killing marabout for feathers.
Two white men, carrying guns, and natives preparing a hide with leaves and branches. The two hunters crawl inside (33). Marabout feeding on carrion used as bait (77). The hunters fire their guns from ...
INTEREST. The shooting of egrets in Africa for their feathers.
Main title (1). A European, in tropical attire, and two African guides crawl through bushland (15). "A colony of egrets" (20). Panning shots of trees with colonies of egrets ( ...
INTEREST. Hunting elephants for ivory.
No main title. A camp in Central Africa; an African reports to two European men. The men, accompanied by a number of Africans, leave the camp and follow a guide through the bush (90). A herd of ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a swamp. A letter is attached to a stick in the middle of the canoe (14). On the banks of the Nile, the letter is handed over to ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
Although produced at a cost of £80, Crossing the Great Sagrada had a pre-release showing at the London Tivoli and ran at ‘hundreds of ...
INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.
A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a sandy clearing. The black African drivers, naked from the waist up, wearing feathered head dresses and carrying ...
The story of the meeting, in Africa, of two men who find that they were the husband and lover of the same woman.
Rl. 1. Captain Bull is in charges of an African outpost. A local witch doctor ...
Travelogue. Commander Glen Kidston's trip to Africa, including a safari and a visit to a plantation.
No titles. LS of docks and large cranes (3). MCU of man reading `Photography for the Amateur' and smiling at the camera (17). A ...
DOCUMENTARY. Extract showing scenes of an African native funeral, in which women dance around the seated corpse (43-162); a montage of the dancing women (191 ft).
Si-Mohammed-Ben-Moktar sending out invites to great falcon hunt.
Cartoon adventure, in which Felix plays golf. He's shot overseas on a jet of water and ends up in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.