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ACTUALITY. Boer War. Scots' Guards march through the market place in Bloemfontain.
Foot soldiers carrying pick-axes or rifles march (R-L) past ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Covered wagons drawn by mules, each flying the Red Cross flag, fording the Vaal river (13ft).
Note: Filmed ...
ACTUALITY. Boer WAr. A procession of ox-drawn wagons passing down a trail over a hill towards the camera; the oxen ...
ACTUALITY. Boer war. Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet ...
British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900.
The film depends ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.
A long double line of naval ratings hauling ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Ceremonies on the occasion of the raising of the Union Jack at Pretoria, 5 June 1900.
Long shot ...
A 4.7-inch naval gun being drawn across the drift by ox-teams. As the gun descends the steep embankment, it is ...
A pantomime on the Boer War in the form of a boxing match between men dressed as John Bull and ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Boer War(?)
A battlefield, with cannons and wounded soldiers, is filmed from behind the British line(?) A horse-drawn ambulance arrives ...
Ostriches being fed by an African keeper, watched by a group of Europeans which includes three women (97ft).
DRAMA. A "faked" newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.
A nurse is seen receiving wounded British soldiers at a ...
ACTUALITY. A British troop exercise during the Boer War presented as genuine military action.
[THE SCOUTS IN PURSUIT OF THE BOERS] ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long column of mounted troops fording a river (148ft).
Note: Lord Roberts took the surrender of Kroonstad ...
A steam traction engine hauling timber in a dockyard, apparently in South Africa (during the Boer War). A number of ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A Company of British troops, just arrived in Port Elizabeth, march from the jetty towards a square ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long line of carts and wagons drawn by mules and oxen crosses the Vaal river - ...
DRAMA. A 'faked' newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.
Four gunners are seen under fire; one falls wounded as ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War: hauled by a long mule train a four-wheeled cart with three British soldiers seated at the rear ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War wounded being taken onto a hospital ship.
A continuous line of sick and wounded British soldiers being carried ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Two scenes.
Long shot of soliders digging under the supervision of officers (26). An armoured train, going in ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. A procession of troops, led by pipers, marches in front of the camera. Taken at Union Terrace, ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Lancers fording the Modder River, which has steep banks on either side, during the Boer War.
Note: ...
Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks.
The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. British naval ratings firing a 4.7" naval gun, during the Boer War, probably 14 December 1899.
Close shot ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. 'Phantom ride' taken from a moving train (moving right to left) showing the British encampment at Frere, ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.
MCU British soldiers lined up along trenches aiming their ...
ACTUALITY. A reconstruction "as performed in the Empress Theatre, 'Greater Britain Exhibition', Earls Court" by Mr Frank E. Fillis's troupe ...
ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Spectators on the quayside wave as the crowded ship moves away.
Note: The Roslin Castle left Southampton on ...
No titles. Shots from the same camera viewpoint showing horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians and an electric tram arriving at an ...
ACTUALITY. Military exercise in Durban, South Africa.
Small groups of naval ratings bring their guns into position, fire, unlimber them and ...
African labourers excavating a clearing, with railway tracks in the background. The Africans may be Zulus (94ft).
An ox wagon passes before the camera at some distance; another passes at closer range; a caravan of ox wagons, ...
ACTUALITY. Long shot of President Kruger.
A long shot of Kruger leaving his residence to be driven off to the Volksraad. ...
ACTUALITY. Seaforth Highlanders in Cairo.
A column of Seaforth Highlanders, wearing topees and with fixed bayonets, march towards and past the ...
View from stern of moving ship shows a faster-moving vessel, with masts and a funnel, approaching then overtaking on the ...
ACTUALITY. Long distance shot of "The Bluff" nearing Durban; it sails towards the camera, turns, and passes in medium close ...
The technique of abortion using the Karman Kurette. The film stresses the ease of the technique and also the lack ...
30 reels of various footage taken in Nigeria. Large proportion of footage shows public works.
Uganda. Young girl (collection donor). Family scenes. Hydroelectric dam (Murchison falls?) Military band. Fire engine, Santa Claus. Motor racing. Beach ...
Karamoja (Lake Rudolph). African village. Murchison falls. Wildlife.
Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at St. Anthony's Hospital, Kawimbe, including maternity, child welfare, ante- and post-natal ...
Coastal Scenes, location unknown.
South Africa: various scenes. Kenya. Safari. Nigeria: Market in Lagos (Lewis Street)?
Shows the progress being made in the advande of the scheme bringing electricity to Uganda. Describes the erection of overhead ...