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A day in the life of a 'typical' English family. Intended for African distribution.
After an opening shot of a policeman ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal ...
Life and industries in Nigeria.
START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner ...
Depicts scenes from Festival week at the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School, Mbereshi, to celebrate the first 25 years ...
Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at the Boys' Boarding School, Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia - a teacher training ...
DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), ...
Story of adventures of three brothers in the Foreign Legion, each of whom is taking the blame for jewel theft ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
The British possessions in eastern Africa.
J. Blake Dalrymple and J. Stirling Gillespie on wildlife filming expedition during a Cape to Cairo trip 1937-1939, largly shot ...
Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet ...
Pygmies of the Central African rain forest; aspects of their way of life - domestic, hunting, and bartering.
Amateur footage of an African village (probably Mufulira) built for factory workers. Sanitation conditions, European housing and recreation facilities
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...
Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and ...
Family in the British Colonial Service in West Africa. Their son revolts against the life and becomes involved with a ...
Oases in the Sahara Desert.
Story of the maiden voyage of HMS Ashanti, a Tribal Class destroyer, to visit the Gold Coast to ...
DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.
RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. How men of the Barotse tribe make and use a dug-out canoe.
Two Africans begin to fell a tree with ...
INTEREST. A film of British West Africa.
Credits (23). The primitive fishing of the natives on the Gold Coast - they ...
Travelogue of Southern Rhodesia. Scenes in Bulawayo, factory workshops for the railways. Gold mining operations in a large foundry and ...
Ben, Bebe and Barbara in Africa, mostly watching ritual dancing. Ben, Bebe and Barbara in a large garden - home? ...