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Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...
PART 1
"NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON ...
Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...
Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife ...
An African woman is seen at work hoeing in the maize fields with her baby on her back, and an ...
Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.
The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields ...
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.
An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. ...
FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
Jericho Jackson is on run from army after being court-martialled. He goes to African desert, marries and becomes head of ...
Adventure melodrama of the search for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.
Amateur footage of scenes in and around Mufulira Hospital, Northern Rhodesia.
INTEREST. A survey of the position of natives in various parts of South Africa.
r.1 Shots of natives in a busy ...
This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...
INTEREST.
r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping ...
Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.
Reel One of three.
Victoria Falls. The four-day ...
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a ...
INTEREST. A native of the Mashanne tribe plucks, with tweezers, the beard of a native of the Dabarra tribe (85). ...
Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.
Production / Donor ...
The production of cocoa beans in the Gold Coast and their shipment to England.
After an opening title explaining that 'most ...
INTEREST. A woman potter from the Quambo tribe of northern South-West Africa is seen at work. She works smoking a ...
TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE HONEY> IS MADE INTO A ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...
Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows ...
A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER MEDICINE WOMEN>
A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY
Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...
Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. ...
Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.
An African man, 'a typical case of chronic ...
The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.
The film opens with a line of African men in uniform ...
The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed ...
TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.
Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the ...
Travelogue. Aerial tour of Africa affording novel views of animals and wild life.
Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...
INTEREST. The method of breadmaking used by the Arabs and Somali, seen at Gobuen. Grinding, Indian corn between two round ...
A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.
Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...