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Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ...
A fictional children's film recalling the journey of trekkers in 1892 from the Transvaal to the Mashomba Valley in Mashonaland. ...
Story of the efforts of a Game Warden in East Africa to preserve wild animals in his territory.
Set in Africa just after the Boer war, tells of the journey of four men into the African bush, in ...
INTEREST. Two natives of Southern Rhodesia chop down a tree and make a dug-out canoe from a section of the ...
Natives of the Mashona tribe build a hut from wooden poles, grass and mud, and a family is then seen ...
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
At home in Sierra Leone
Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...
The control of bilharzia and malaria in Rhodesia.
Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made ...
INTEREST. A film on the Gold Coast [Ghana], including a record of the 1946 Ashanti Durbar at Kumase.
RL.1 The town ...
Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all ...
Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken ...
The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.
The film begins by offering a historical ...
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots ...
1. Views of game in Tanganyika.
2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.
3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.
4. Film of ...
Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.
No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the ...
Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.
A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and ...
Ceremony of the handing over of Somaliland which is to be administered once again by Italy under United Nations trusteeship. ...
The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard ...
A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.
"The City Council of Nairobi presents ...