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Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...
PART 1
"NGONO AND HER PEOPLE" - Credits. "MISSIONARIES AND NATIVE AFRICANS AS ACTORS - CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS - STORY BASED ON ...
Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...
Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife ...
An African woman is seen at work hoeing in the maize fields with her baby on her back, and an ...
Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.
The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields ...
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.
An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. ...
FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
Jericho Jackson is on run from army after being court-martialled. He goes to African desert, marries and becomes head of ...
Adventure melodrama of the search for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.
Amateur footage of scenes in and around Mufulira Hospital, Northern Rhodesia.
INTEREST. A survey of the position of natives in various parts of South Africa.
r.1 Shots of natives in a busy ...
This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports ...
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...
INTEREST.
r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping ...
Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.
Reel One of three.
Victoria Falls. The four-day ...
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a ...