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INTEREST. A native of the Mashanne tribe plucks, with tweezers, the beard of a native of the Dabarra tribe (85). ...
Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.
Production / Donor ...
The production of cocoa beans in the Gold Coast and their shipment to England.
After an opening title explaining that 'most ...
INTEREST. A woman potter from the Quambo tribe of northern South-West Africa is seen at work. She works smoking a ...
TWO NATIVES OF GANGUELLA COLLECTING HONEY FROM A HIVE BY SMOKING OUT THE BEES. THE HONEY> IS MADE INTO A ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...
Amateur film. `Dawn': birds flying over the plain; vultures. `The Farm Round Commences': white man on horse; herd of cows ...
A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER MEDICINE WOMEN>
A MEMBER OF THE KUANYAMA TRIBE IS SEEN MOULDING AND SMOOTHING POTS OF VARIOUS SHAPES FROM LUMPS OF CLAY
Amateur film. Thomas Cook tour down the Nile.
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...
Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. ...
Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.
An African man, 'a typical case of chronic ...
The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.
The film opens with a line of African men in uniform ...
The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed ...
TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.
Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the ...
Travelogue. Aerial tour of Africa affording novel views of animals and wild life.
Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...
INTEREST. The method of breadmaking used by the Arabs and Somali, seen at Gobuen. Grinding, Indian corn between two round ...
A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.
Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...