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Documentary looking at the work done at the Guild Hospital to help orphans, lepers and the work done in `the ...
Amateur footage shot in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, showing how the mine and the community have developed since 1930
Amateur footage of a trip from Madagascar to Pemba Island.
The film opens in colour with a French steamer leaving Madagascar ...
Carving wooden pillows. Cutting a suitable branch - a forked section - which is measured, shaped with axe and adze ...
Pottery making methods among the Bimal tribe at Danana, Somaliland.
Dry clay is collected and pounded and sifted to make a ...
Pottery making methods among the Eile tribe at Gelib, Somaliland.
The potter and his wife. The woman puddles the clay. The ...
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and ...
Methods of making mats from leaves are demonstrated by women of Magnasa and Bimal tribes.
INTEREST. Aspects of life among the Swazi; parts of the Kingship and First-Fruits Ceremony, or Incwala, shown. Shots of countryside ...
Images of Africa including taking car on a raft across a river, elephants, hippos and African women.
INTEREST. Travelogue. A compilation film purporting to be a journey through Africa, using stock footage, and extracts from non-fiction and ...
INTEREST. The highlands of Rhodesia.
Credits (37). A map of Southern Rhodesia outlining the Eastern Districts (55). Beira: over shots of ...
Amatuer scenes on the journey from Nairobi to Britain via Mombassa, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Madeira taken by ...
Various scenes shot in the Kenyan countryside and Nairobi by Daniel Broad, British Commissioner in Kenya 1934-1944.
Scenes in Kenyan countryside shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner, Kenya 1934-1944. Nakuru - Europeans looking at plants. Kisumu ...
The Xhosa tribe.
Amateur footage of scenes in and around Nairobi shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissiner, Kenya 1934-1935. A house, the ...
Travelogue of Southern Africa: the Transvaal, Pretoria, Johannesburg mines, Rhodesia, Kimberley diamond mines, Buffalo river, Port Elizabeth, an ostrich farm, ...
The Duke of Kent's tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1934.
Against the backdrop of the castles of the Gold Coast, the film shows the life of the local inhabitants.
The commentator ...
AMATEUR. Scenes at the Presbyterian Church of East Africa missionary centre in Chogoria, Kenya.
No main title. Hand drawn map of ...
Advertising. Film showing the manufacture of Cadbury's products - cocoa, chocolate and 'Bournvita'.
Rl.1 Credits (54). PROLOGUE. The night watchman of ...
INTEREST. The ruins of Zimbabwe. Close-up of African native, shot of a native beating a drum as commentary states that ...
INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
Feature film made out of the 12 part serial of the same title.
Comedy.
AMATEUR FILM. Ripon Falls (now damned); native fisheries on Lake Victoria (canoes made of long boards sewn together). The Uganda ...
'The Port of Accra- capital of the Gold Coast and Headquarters of one of the Fry Buying Agencies.' Viewed from ...
Travelogue of the air journey from London To Capetown.
EXPEDITIONS. Record of the journey made by film director Walter Summers and his crew in three motor coaches of the ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of various localities in Africa, including Victoria Falls and possibly South Africa.
Victoria Falls. Men in pith ...
CARTOON. Trigger-happy big game hunter, Flip The Frog, is captured by cannibals. They attempt to cook him in a cauldron. ...
From the port of London to Africa, India, Malaya, British New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and back again ...
INTEREST. Some of the animals in Johannesburg Zoo.
Titles (69). General views of the zoo (95). Pelican (106). People looking at ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Phillips Dixon while serving as hydrographer on HMS Dahlia shows work of locally ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of a holiday on a cruise liner, and in Madeira and Africa, including shots of Victoria ...
INTEREST: Amateur film shot along lower reaches of Nile in Uganda: The Nile: shots taken from boat on river of ...
Home movie of the Rowntree family on tour in Africa.
Tribal African village life.
"Equatorial Africa". Meeting of the village elders; the chief addressing them; warriors with spears; men returing from ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and ...
Romance of Tarzan and Jane.
TRAVELOGUE. 1920s footage of African wildlife with added commentary and Ravel's Bolero.
Wildlife - zebras, ostriches; ostrich shot by man in ...
In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an ...
Wildlife safari to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Portugese East Africa (Mozambique).
Scenes from the lives of people in an African native tribe. A woman gathers up an animal hide and walks ...
Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" ...