Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...

The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; ...

START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes at Scapa Flow filmed on 4 March 1941: a port side profile of the battleship HMS Nelson ...

DOCUMENTARY. A record of the accession of Mutesa II in Kampala, 19th-20th November 1942.

The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.

INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.

No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a ...

A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.

Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...

A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the ...

INTEREST. A travelogue set in Western Uganda, bordering the Congo. View across the Ruwenzori Mountains. The hot, sulphur springs on ...

Record of the operation to separate the Siamese twins from Africa.

Conservative Party newsreel. Cartoon pointing out that there is no age limit for School Certificate entrants. The Commonwealth Conference. The ...

Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.

The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields ...

INTEREST. This appears to be part of a film contrasting scenes in an English village with African village life.

A woman ...

The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.

A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined ...

INTEREST. The production of copper in Northern Rhodesia. Welfare facilites provided for the mining communities, including the towns of Mufulira, ...

INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

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

Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...

The growing processing and weaving of cotton from East Africa.

Survey of the cotton industry in Uganda.

Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...