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Morrison Collection: 1: Jekko Falls Hydro Electric Scheme : Pts 1 & 2 1937-1938

Morrison Collection: 1: Jekko Falls Hydro Electric... (1938)has video enhanced entry

Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...

 

NGONO AND HER PEOPLE (1938)

PART 1

"NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON ...

 

OLD BONES OF THE RIVER (1938) enhanced entry

Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his ...

 

TANGANYIKA: POTTERS AND MAKING A BEER STRAINER (1938)

A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...

 

TARZAN'S REVENGE (1938)

Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.

 

WEST AFRICA, CANARIES, MADEIRA (1938)

Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife ...

 

AFRICAN BABY (1937)

An African woman is seen at work hoeing in the maize fields with her baby on her back, and an ...

 

ALL ABOARD (1937)

Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).

 

ANTI-PLAGUE OPERATIONS, LAGOS 1937 (1937)has video enhanced entry

A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...

 

AT SCHOOL IN TANGANYIKA (1937) enhanced entry

A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.

The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...

 

CONSOLING WEED (1937)has video enhanced entry

Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.

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

 

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MSUKUMA CALLED KINGA MKONO BARA (1937) enhanced entry

A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

The film introduces Kinga's home - ...

 

FIREMAKER (1937)

INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.

An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. ...

 

FOR VALOUR (1937)

FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, ...

 

HIGH COMMAND (1937) enhanced entry

Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.

 

JERICHO (1937)

Jericho Jackson is on run from army after being court-martialled. He goes to African desert, marries and becomes head of ...

 

KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1937) enhanced entry

Adventure melodrama of the search for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.

 

MUFULIRA HOSPITAL 1937 (1937)

Amateur footage of scenes in and around Mufulira Hospital, Northern Rhodesia.

 

MY SONG GOES FORTH (1937)

INTEREST. A survey of the position of natives in various parts of South Africa.

r.1 Shots of natives in a busy ...

 

Roach Collection: 006: Nigeria, Gran Canaria, Freetown... (1937)

This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...

 

STEVE OF THE RIVER (1937)has video enhanced entry

A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...

 

TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF A KUANYAMA FAMILY (1937)

INTEREST.

r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping ...

 

ZAMBESI DAYS (1937)

Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.

Reel One of three.

Victoria Falls. The four-day ...

 

AFRICAN PEASANT FARMS - THE KINGOLWIRA EXPERIMENT (1936)has video enhanced entry

INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.

The film opens with a ...

 

BEARD TRIMMING AT MONAMOFI - RIVER GUIBA (1936)

INTEREST. A native of the Mashanne tribe plucks, with tweezers, the beard of a native of the Dabarra tribe (85). ...

 

Buckland Collection: Safaris in Tanganyika 1934-1936 (1936)

Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.

Production / Donor ...

 

COCOA FROM THE GOLD COAST (1936) enhanced entry

The production of cocoa beans in the Gold Coast and their shipment to England.

After an opening title explaining that 'most ...

 

DOMBONDOLA - POTTER (1936)

INTEREST. A woman potter from the Quambo tribe of northern South-West Africa is seen at work. She works smoking a ...

 

GANGUELLA - HONEY AND BEER MAKING (1936)

TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE ƒHONEY> IS MADE INTO A ...

 

Jackson Collection: 31: Locusts. Durbar scenes. (1936)

Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of ...

 

Jackson Collection: 32: Gold Coast life (1936)

Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country ...

KAR SIGNALS : a film of routine in remote places

KAR SIGNALS : a film of routine in remote places (1936)has video enhanced entry

The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...

 

KENYA FARM (1936)

Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows ...

 

KUANYAMA - MEDICINE WOMEN INITIATION (1936)

A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER ƒMEDICINE WOMEN>

 

KUANYAMA - POTTER'S METHODS IN BUILDING POTS (1936)

A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY

 

NILE TOUR (1936)

Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.

 

PICTURESQUE SOUTH AFRICA (1936)

Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.

 

POISON ORDEAL (1936)

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS

 

RHODES OF AFRICA (1936) enhanced entry

Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...

 

SONG OF FREEDOM (1936)

Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. ...

 

TROPICAL HOOKWORM (1936)has video enhanced entry

Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.

An African man, 'a typical case of chronic ...

 

VETERINARY TRAINING OF AFRICAN NATIVES (1936)has video enhanced entry

The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.

The film opens with a line of African men in uniform ...

 

WEDDING IN LAGOS, 1936 (1936)

The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed ...

 

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER IN AFRICA (1935)

TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.

Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the ...

 

BABOONA An AERIAL EPIC OVER AFRICA (1935)

Travelogue. Aerial tour of Africa affording novel views of animals and wild life.

 

BIG GAME OF LIFE (1935)

Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...

 

BREAD MAKING - METHOD USED BY ARAB AND SOMALI SEEN... (1935)

INTEREST. The method of breadmaking used by the Arabs and Somali, seen at Gobuen. Grinding, Indian corn between two round ...

 

COMMON ROUND (1935)has video enhanced entry

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

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