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Outline of the Royal Family's tour of Southern Rhodesia in 1947.
Landscape. A plane lands at Salisbury; George VI and Princess ...
INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down ...
Report on the Royal visit.
A story of Rhodesia intended for potential European immigrants. The film highlights the contemporary conditions of life there, outlining the ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and ...
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
"Cecil Rhodes brought peace to what is now Southern Africa. The Africans were a primitive people...superstitious and wasteful...". An African ...
AMATEUR FILM. IAC leader. `En route at Khartoum': loading and boarding plane; Salisbury; street scenes; flower market; bowling green; `Astor' ...
North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is ...
A film which shows the primitive conditions of the people of the northern region of the Gold Coast. It shows ...
A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, ...
Scenes from the service conducted by His Lordship the Bishop of Accra at Bukom Square, Accra, Ghana.
The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...
View of the coast from surf boats, Portuguese palaces, canoes used for fishing, women cleaning the catch, mud ovens for ...
Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and ...
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens ...
Journeys by dhow from Kuwait to East Africa and back, filmed in 1936-38 and 1946.
ORIGINAL COLOUR FOOTAGE FOR LAST SECTION OF SONS OF SINBAD: EAST AFRICA, SOUTH ARABIAN SHORE, KUWAIT
A travelogue of Southern Rhodesia intended for prospective British tourists and immigrants.
Opening with a consideration of ancient Rhodesia, the film ...