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A broad look at African life and missionary work, contrasting old and new ways and Europeans and native Africans.
Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, ...
A record of a safari in East Africa.
The 5th Battalion King's East African Rifles returning from a route march. Government ...
AMATEUR record of an expedition in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film concetrates on the baiting of a ...
Cairo and the river Nile.
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in ...
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; ...
The official tour of Mr. Amery through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada between July 1927 and February 1928.
Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by ...
ACTUALITY. A record of a visit to South Africa by a group of American tourists during a world tour on ...
"Sir Alan Cobham makes final trials over the River Medway, of the all-metal flying-boat 'Singapore'". Map showing the route to ...
An annual race meeting at Maseru, Basutoland.
Introduced as the 'annual native race meeting' at Maseru in Basutoland, the film opens ...
INDUSTRIAL/ETHNOLOGY. Film on the Nigerian cotton industry and how the natives use cotton themselves in the manufacture of clothing.
""BLACK COTTON" ...
Documentary on the Gold Coast, showing the building of a new harbour at Takoradi, and the construction of roads and ...
AMATEUR. Pageant of Old Days - part of the Uganda jubilee celebrations (50 years since the arrival of whites). The ...
Amateur film of a safari in Kenya undertaken by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor). Dated 1929 and ...
The opening ceremony of Takoradi harbour by the Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas on 3rd April 1928. Mr Thomas and the ...
Amateur film.
Girls school run by missionaries - shots of Miss Attlee teaching the girls English games with African actions (e.g. ...
The industrial development of West Africa (probably Gold Coast and Nigeria) under British rule.
West Africa before it was developed; forests ...
Three brothers shoulder the blame for a theft, and join the Foreign Legion.
Cartoon adventure, in which Felix plays golf. He's shot overseas on a jet of water and ends up in Africa, ...
The control of hookworm disease in Kenya.
DRAMA. A love story of two generations.
R.1 Dr. Martin Sumner, a Victorian country doctor and early motor enthusiast, meets Dora ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. A journey through Egypt on a Nile steamboat. The boat passes all types of rivercraft (120), stretches of ...
Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British ...
DOCUMENTARY. Sections of footage showing African wildlife and penguins.
MCU pile of film cans, the top can is marked with Cherry ...
A record of Sir Alan Cobham's flight from London (Stag Lane) to the Cape Town South Africa. The flight - ...
Scenes from Basutoland.
The intertitles outline a history of Basutoland, interspersed with shots of a Bushman and a tribal leader, before ...
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...
DOCUMENTARY. Extract showing scenes of an African native funeral, in which women dance around the seated corpse (43-162); a montage ...
"A GOLD COAST ROMANCE - Police Corporal Williams and his dusky bride, from the Exhibition native village, married at St. ...
INTEREST. Record of a journey in Africa, possibly in Nigeria.
No titles. Europeans stand by a train (1 frame). Logs seen ...
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; ...
Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.
Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - ...
INTEREST. Scenes of African life in the Congo.
Main title (5). A mother sitting on the ground and surrounded by baskets ...
Production footage for a film about a journey down the River Niger, Africa.
No titles. LS man scaling down a palm ...
A journey along the West African coast to Lagos and scenes in Lagos.
No main title. "At sunrise we arrive off ...
A series of shots of the Niger Company's, J. Walkden's and W.B. McIver's buildings in Nigeria, usually consisting of a ...
A drama of tribal life in Central Africa.
'Nionga, a chieftain's daughter, is induced by a vindictive witch-doctor to persuade her ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to South Africa, May 1925.
Main title ...
"INCIDENTS DURING HIS VISIT TO FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE". Two shots of official ceremonies during which the Prince is not seen ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further ...