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A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.
The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Troops from 82nd West African Division arrive at Ru-Ywa, Burma, by boat and are met by Major-General Stockwell ...
82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...
Gives a picture of the daily life of men and women native students at Achimota College on the Gold Coast, ...
Footage of Nandi tribal dancing. Recruiting for the Kings African Rifles. The Turkana tribe preparing meals and dancing. WaTesio dancers, ...
Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.
Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and ...
A film made for African audiences showing how Basuto troops are occupied in the Allied cause.
A title reads 'Middle East: ...
At 30 West African Field Dressing Station at Kyaukpyu, volunteers from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines give ...
Messages home from British Army personnel (with Black African Labour corps) in India to their loved ones in the Manchester, ...
Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby ...
North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their ...
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on portraits of colonials in London, the rehabilitation of African soldiers in ...
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up ...
Whilst visiting XV Indian Corps area in Arakan (Burma) the Duke of Devonshire pays a visit to the ...
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
After being cut off by Japanese forces from the rest of the British force northeast of Letmauk, Burma, ...
Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages ...
A film which contrasts the old and the new outlooks in Kenya. An elder of a coastal village has a ...
Unedited takes of fishing and fishermen in Kenya.
There are several sequences divided by makeshift 'slates'. (1) Static shot ...
Tourist 'Travel film' of Wild life in Game park and wall paintings in cave. The grave of Rhodes.
Cape town ...
Profile of the work and history of the Universties' Mission to Central Africa in their fight against the "evils of ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...
While visiting XV Corps area Lieutenant-General M B Burrows flies in to inspect 82nd West African Division on ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye (Vice Chief Imperial General Staff) pays a short visit to 82nd West African Division ...
In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...
Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
A trip by truck from Nairobi into the semi-arid Northern Frontier Districts.
Scenes at home in Seychelles: swimming. Ocean voyage. Suez canal. Rough seas.
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
On the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war ...
Views of traditional life in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to illustrate the tribal background to missionary work.
London - Thames scenes - ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft ...
Opening with a map of the area, the film depicts aspects of village life as local women carry baskets and ...
Amateur film. `Once upon a time Africa was a land of Pagan enchantment': landscape; wildlife; village. `Civilisation': white man puts ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon ...
West African Engineers construct a ferry over the Kalapanzin River in the Arakan region of Burma.
African troops of ...
Bud Flanagan plays an army private who gets concussion which results in three dreams: 1st - only white man in ...
Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting ...