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Giant tortoise. Coastal and shipboard scenes. Hunting of sea turtles (possibly same footage as Roach 007?). Ships at sea. Coastal ...
Family and home scenes.
Botswanan politician, Khama, is allowed to return for five days, from exile, because his wife is expecting a baby.
[Son of ...
Seretse Khama is seen arriving in a flying boat at Southampton with his wife and child. He is starting his ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.
A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.
INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.
Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the ...
A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.
The film opens with a shot of ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the ...
The rising standard of health of the native communities of East Africa brought about by improved methods of cattle farming.
The ...
The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of ...
The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut ...
Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and ...
'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; ...
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives ...
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working ...