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TRAVELOGUE. A Pathé colour film showing African natives throwing cartridges into a river and catching the stunned fish.
INTEREST. The sights of Egypt and a review of troops.
Main title (5). "PORT SAID A STATUE OF THE COUNT DE ...
Main title. "Pretoria: decorating the graves of British soldiers killed in the war." MCS women moving amongst the graves and ...
INTEREST. Rhinoceros hunting in Africa.
Two European men looking through binoculars, and approaching with a line of African bearers, follow a ...
Bulawayo - main street and statue of Rhodes (42). Gold mining in Penhalonga Valley - open cast, transport of rubble ...
DRAMA. A group of settlers are attacked by Arabs and lions.
Three settlers are besieged by a group of hostile Arabs. ...
INTEREST. The quarrying and processing of clay to make bricks in Africa.
No titles. Pan left of village (10). Pan left ...
INTEREST. Hunting elephants for ivory.
No main title. A camp in Central Africa; an African reports to two European men. The ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Sudan.
Main title. The new Nile bridge at Kosti with a steamer passing (13-38); ferry scenes at Omdurman ...
Main title. The official party walk on to a raised platform decorated with Union flags and take the salute (35). ...
DRAMA. Young officer rescues sweetheart from native uprising on plantation.
Captain Williams visits a plantation in the tropics to see his ...
INTEREST. The shooting of egrets in Africa for their feathers.
Main title (1). A European, in tropical attire, and two African ...
INTEREST. Hippopotamus hunting in Upper Gambia.
Main title. A European hunter with native guides moves through the undergrowth. Two hippos are ...
INTEREST. Killing marabout for feathers.
Two white men, carrying guns, and natives preparing a hide with leaves and branches. The two ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a ...
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish ...
King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of the Kearton-Jones expedition to Kenya, in which Colonel Jones and his two cowboys lasso a variety ...
INTEREST. The Victoria Falls.
Various shots of the Falls seen from different angles (181). A small boat, manned by Africans, being ...
INTEREST. Apparently a compilation of three or more African travelogues, including material on the port of Mits'iwa in Ethiopia, and ...
DRAMA. Military adventure set in the Sudan, concerning the rescue of a younger brother by the elder brother disguised as ...
INTEREST. Travelogue.
Main title. A native family is seen emerging one after another from a mud hut that has a thatched ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. A railway journey in Northern Tanzania (?) and waterfalls on the River Pangani.
No main title. Filmed from the ...
Si-Mohammed-Ben-Moktar sending out invites to great falcon hunt.
INTEREST. Section of a travelogue of a North African country.
Pan of a crowded market-place in a North African town, showing ...
Travelogue. A view of the Zambezi from the banks (6-14); a boat embarks from the shore (36); and canoes on ...
ACTUALITY. The construction of a railway bridge across a river in South Africa.
A gang of African labourers, with an overseer, ...
INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.
A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a ...
ACTUALITY. A lion hunt in East Africa.
"Native lion hunt" (2). An African on horseback canters towards the camera (9). African ...
Travelogue showing scenes from Victoria Falls.
An African woman stands beside a sign which reads 'David Livingstone cut his initials on ...
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
ACTUALITY. Pottery making, weapon making, cattle driving and the formal greeting of the Barotse people.
Titles (10). MS African women sitting ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace ...
Scenes at the annual Hull fair.
Replacement title (0.07). Man at boxing booth gesturing to unseen crowd.The man wearing a light ...
A dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two Boers sneaking up ...
Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Native drivers and British soldiers stand by the bank of the river urging on the long teams ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
ACTUALITY. Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Cavalrymen dressed as Boers escort a number of men wearing kilts towards and past the camera. One or two ...
DOCUMENTARY. "Fake newsfilm" of a Boer war skirmish.
A number of Boer volunteers direct rifle fire and cannon fire at the ...
RECONSTRUCTION. A number of cavalrymen dressed as Boers ride towards and past the camera brandishing their swords. A solitary rider ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Three British cavalrymen ride from right to left across a flat landscape, with a group of cavalry ...
ACTUALITY. City Imperial Volunteers, carrying rifles and equipment, clamber up the gangway of a troopship at the foot of which ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Faked Boer War incident.
View from behind the "Boer" position as they fire with rifles and a small cannon against ...