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Amateur film shot by Medical Officer of the Boundary Commission. Shows British Colonial Officials travelling to Somaliland via Marseilles, Malta ...
AMATEUR. Scenes at the Presbyterian Church of East Africa missionary centre in Chogoria, Kenya.
No main title. "The old women find ...
Shows the achievements, aspirations. racial attitudes of colonial railway builders. Traces the journey from the Cape to Cairo by train, ...
African jungle spectacle.
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education ...
Dancing competitions and various masks. Umu-Chuku, Mbaku & Amanuke. Grandfather Maw, Enu-Ugwu-Abaw; Spirit maidens (Aghogho Mmonwui); District Officer mask (Onyeocha)?; ...
Local people and coastal scenes on the Gold Coast around Elmina.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley ...
Amateur film of British Somaliland taken by Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester. Pan of Berbera. Burco, the headquarters of the ...
Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.
Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).
AMATEUR. Film shot around the Gold Coast, with views from a train and a car, and shots of a small ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...
Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.
Filmed in Kenya, footage of a military parade including soldiers marching and the regiment's mascot.
Amateur film covering Bagnold's explorations of the Libyan desert, 1930 and 1932.
r.1 Names of the exploration party and a map ...
Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for ...
Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of ...
WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.
Amateur film of Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia: the mine, housing for Africans and Europeans. Testing water supply.
Amateur film showing native dances, markets and race meetings in Nigeria.
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya
Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). ...
Castle Films production showing 'pigmies' constructing a complex and very large rope bridge across a river. Very probably Uganda: shot ...
A record of a safari in East Africa.
No main title. "Owing to rains having set in we decide to go ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law ...
A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of ...
DRAMA. The whites working a rubber plantation in West africa slowly collapse under the multiple strains that their life-style imposes.
Rl.1. ...
INTEREST. Shots of wild animals in East Africa. The water buck (15-122); birds flocking to a water hole (132-155); finches ...
Amateur film of scenes at Burao in Somaliland (headquarters of the Camel Corps), Grand Harbour Valletta (Malta) and the arrival ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of ...
MS. Looking up at lioness on large rock (5). MCU. Two lionesses looking out over a rock (11). "A truly ...
A lion and lioness in Africa. Film supplied by MGM News (90ft).
AMATEUR EXPEDITION film made by Glen Kidston and set in East Africa showing members of a safari, a rhinoceros, lions ...
Street scenes in ?Salisbury (177) A Kikuyu farm (263) Wambugu, Chief of the Kikuyu, greets Dr Philps of the Church ...
The sisal industry in British East Africa. Gathering and transporting the sisal leaves, extracting the fibre by machine, washing, drying, ...
Life in Central Africa.
ANIMATION. Stop-frame puppet animation. Snap the Gingerbread Man goes hunting in Africa and is chased by a lion.
"Snap the Gingerbread ...
NEWSFILM. Mrs Diana Strickland arrives home after her African motor tour (28ft).
Note: Offcuts under title MRS STRICKLAND HOME (75ft).
INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river. ...
"INTEREST. Travelogue" The film opens with a map of Africa with pointer showing places on the railway line (89-117)(150-166); Lobito ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of ...
Travelogue. Commander Glen Kidston's trip to Africa, including a safari and a visit to a plantation.
No titles. LS of docks ...
The construction of the Takoradi harbour near Sekondi.
Travelogue. Scenes in Northern Nigeria. A compilation of footage taken from other films (see note at end of synopsis).
No titles. ...
Travelogue of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, highlighting the contrast between old and new methods. The film shows the development ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the ...
How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.
The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as ...