BANANA CALYPSO 1958
Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.
Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.
The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.
The squadron's tour takes in the principal ports of the Empire. At each port the ships of the squadron ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER DIVE BOMBED ALLIED COMMANDERS MEET IN BERLIN BRITAIN'S GIFT TO RUSSIA "DEAR ISLES" HAIL KING AND QUEEN
Story of English doctor accused of treason in the time of King James II and deported to Jamaica where he becomes a successful pirate.
INSTRUCTIONAL. The banana industry in Jamaica.
Credits (30). Views of the hillside and banana plantations (76). Branches are cut down and the bunches of bananas removed from the branches. Natives carry the bunches of bananas on ...
Travelogue of Jamaica.
The visit of Winston Churchill to Jamaica in January 1953.
The film opens with the arrival of Winston Churchill at Montego Bay airport on Friday 9 January 1953 on board the 'Independence', the personal plane of the President of the ...
The care and management of dairy herds in Jamaica in order to maximise milk yields.
Over agricultural shots, a Jamaican voiceover explains that 'dairying in Jamaica is developing rapidly into a flourishing industry'. The commentator states ...
A gambler plots to sabotage a train carrying a racehorse.
'Doris overhears Lopez plotting with Headway to wreck the train in which is her sweetheart's horse. She is kidnapped, but escapes and rides with her brother to the railway points where ...
Melodrama dealing with racism. Centres on domestic difficulties which develop in a working class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican.
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 ...
Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, harvested and prepared for transport.
Main title. Men and uniformed firemen in open area directing a hose, man waving onlookers back. Doorway of a corrugated iron building, firemen directing hose into doorway. Firemen, West Indian and European, ...
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, ...
(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.
(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South America, stopping in Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Chile, through Panama Canal to Curaao, Trinidad and the ...
Part One. (B&W) "Atlantic crossing": HMS Dragon running swiftly in choppy seas. "Drills at Bermuda": an awning is rigged over the quarter deck. "Towing HMS York": HMS York is seen astern. "Weighing anchor by hand". "Testing ...
Coverage of the third Test at Sabina Park, during the 1959/60 MCC tour of the We st Indies.
Travelogue.
Amateur footage of a journey made from Britain to Jamaica.
Threshing and haystack making. Docks. Salisbury Cathedral. The voyage, Newcastle to New York - dockside scenes in Newcastle, at sea. "Arrival in USA in snow storm". Not New ...
Amateur footage featuring Noel Coward in Jamaica.
Amateur footage of a visit to Jamaica by Society of Friends.
Economic problems of Jamaica today and the struggle for survival.
A TRAVELOGUE ABOUT JAMAICA WITH EMPHASIS ON KINGSTON.
The cultivation and export of bananas in Jamaica.
Opening in January as local ploughmen plough a large field in readiness for planting, the film then shows local women weeding and hoeing the land. Shots of a dam outline the ...
"KINGSTON, JAMAICA: A WONDERFUL WELCOME : EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO COULD GET THERE TURNED OUT TO GREET THE PRINCE OF WALES DURING SHORT VISIT TO JAMAICA EN ROUTE TO SOUTH AMERICA" Shots of the Prince Edward's car ...
Made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Methodist work in the West Indies and Central America. Shows a midnight service to celebrate the abolition of slavery; the biography of a Methodist Minister; mission activities in Panama and ...
Record of journey made by Reverend G.E. Hickman Johnson and his wife to see work being done by missionaries in Jamaica and British Honduras(now Belize). Churches and schools observed, as well as economic life of these areas.
Scenes in Jamaica, featuring shots from a train.
A title introduces 'Montego Bay. The Market Square and Main Street'. The camera shows horse and carts travelling in front of the camera, while locals stand by the roadside and walk by. ...
Amateur film of a trip along the Panama Canal, and to Jamaica.
Pelicans and guanos off Lobos de Afuera (Peru). The crescent moon and after glow just before passing Lobitos oil fields (Peru). Entering the Panama Canal. Various ...
The Canopus touching down in Montego Bay; the visit to Kingston, the American n naval reception at Panama; the enthusiasm of the people.
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join Canadian ships for joint exercise in the North Atlantic.
After some scenes from the outward voyage (including refuelling ...
New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of islands, harvesting on estate, buildings, markets, Blairmont factory, from boat. "Bauxite Workings Mackenzie, [British ...
Cinemagazine: includes items on Cuba, ice manufacture in N. America, fiddler crabs in the Mississipi River, the sugar cane industry of Hawaii, Paris views, a musical chimpanzee and a drill display by cadets at a U.S. military academy ( ...
Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people the West Indians' contribution to the war effort.
Una Marson introduces: Learie Constantine (the cricketer, ...
The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.
Over a map of Barbados, a West Indian voiceover outlines a history of the island - 'Barbados is the only island which has always remained British since its ...
An 'on the spot' report by Julian Pettifer showing the rle of the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Caribbean.
The film shows: some of the men swimming in the sea; the regimental headquarters in Jamaica; training at ...