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Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; ...
Tribal dancing in Africa; witch doctors.
A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.
A ...
Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is ...
At Udi in Nigeria.
Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection ...
How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.
Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a ...
DOCUMENTARY/PROPAGANDA. Rushes for an unreleased and unfinished production documenting various talented members of the black community in Britain.
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The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander ...
A short story for children about a Basuto-boy herdsman and his adventures in dealing with cattle thieves.
The second reel (of ...
Includes: redundancies in British factories caused by fuel shortages; British youths emigrating as colonists from Britain to Rhodesia.
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ...
Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.
'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial ...
At Loughborough College colonials study co-operative methods.
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on road building in Kenya and on animals from Kenya at London ...
'London: This magazine is devoted to the activities of the Gold Coast Band during their visit to the U.K. The ...
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa ...
A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.
Over footage ...
Biographical Adventure: The film reconstructs the life of Cherry Kearton. renowned naturalist, traveller and pioneer of cinematography, with excerpts from ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
The story of a young disabled boy who escapes from his tribe as he is about to be sacrificed because ...