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THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY NETWORK: ROUTES, CONSTRUCTION WORK, STATIONS, WORKSHOPS, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
THE PRINCE OF WALES TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA, MAY-JULY 1925
The film opens with a globe, on which Zanzibar is highlighted. The titles outline the role of the island as ...
INTEREST. Section from expedition film, showing the village of Ibandha, and Bakonjo tribal dancing.
No main title. Intertitles (18). Bakonjo people ...
African tribal dancing.
The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.
The ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
Angus Buchanan's expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. Includes Sir Hugh Clifford and the Executive Council ...
INTEREST. Journey through the Niger Delta in Nigeria from Onitsha.
No titles. Travelling shot from boat of river bank at Onitsha ...
The story of the meeting, in Africa, of two men who find that they were the husband and lover of ...
Footage of local life in Southern Nigeria.
INDUSTRIAL. The collection and manufacture of palm nuts and palm oil; travelling shots along the River Niger and its tributaries; ...
INTEREST. Part of a journey from the Semliki River to the Ituri River in the Congo (Zaire).
Main title (7). Line ...
ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk ...
The installation of Sekgoma Khama as chief, 28th May 1923. Shows the main ceremony with British officials and the attendant ...
One of Uganda's native kings salutes the Union Jack during an Empire Day ceremony in South Africa. Film supplied by ...
Animation. Silhouette, white on black.
"Lyman H. Howe presents Hunting Lions in Africa" (3). A man on the back of an ...
Footage of Sir Harry Lauder's round the world trip, camp life in Africa (?).
No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, ...
INTEREST. Travelogue of Uganda around the Semliki river.
Main title: "This chapter being `ON THE EQUATOR'" (5). Credit and intertitle (29). ...
Comedy.
Cherry Kearton's journey in the Congo, showing wildlife along the course of Semliki River.
The Dugmore-Harris expedition to East Africa which was made to photograph wildlife in its natural surroundings. From a hide by ...
CINEMAGAZINE(?) London scenes round Fleet Street; a brief dramatised history of the British policeman; tribal dances.
No title. View across Fleet ...
Lord Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, returns for conference. Filmed with his mother (34ft).
INTEREST. Archaeological dig in Egypt and exhibits at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Archaeological dig in progress: Egyptians working under supervision ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes around the island of Mauritius.
Credits. Titles (37). MLS island of Réunion viewed from a moving boat (44). MCU ...
Travelogue. Scenes of African life. Probably offcuts and clips from different films.
No main title. Street scenes in a North African/Arab ...
INTEREST. The market at Blantyre and street and market scenes in Zomba.
Credits for series (11). Map of Africa highlighting the ...
INTEREST. A trip along the Zambesi in a steamer.
Titles for the series. (10) Map of Africa. (26) CU area around ...
INTEREST. Railways in Nyassaland.
Titles for series. (9) Iris opens on a map of Africa highlighting the area. (31) CU area ...
Love story of an English girl, who has gone to live on her sister's farm in Rhodesia and is wooed ...
The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
Uganda: Reel 1 of 4
Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of ...
ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.
"Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe ...
Scenes on the Cape to Cairo railway.
ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy ...
The funeral of Hussein Kemal, first Sultan of Egypt, in Cairo, 10 October 1917.
The chief mourner is the ...
Main title (1 frame). Military camp with a pyramid in the background. Australian army horse-drawn wagons move to camera (35). ...
The British campaign in German East Africa, late 1915 to early 1916.
Soldiers of the King's African Rifles patrolling ...
Main title. British East African troops in tropical kit loading their horses onto a train (100ft).
Scenes of the Australian (?) army training in the desert in Egypt. Plus extracts from two other films.
Main title (5). ...